Justice Officer

**Overview**:
**Work Type**:Ongoing - Full-time

**Salary**: $60,295 - $77,430

**Grade**:VPS 2

**Occupation**:Administration

**Location**:Melbourne - Western suburbs

**Reference**:VG/5207JULY2025

At the Department of Justice and Community Safety, we’re looking for people who want to make a difference. People who take pride in their work. People who get things done. People who are committed to making Victoria a safer place.

We embrace diversity and strive to have a workforce that reflects the community we serve. We’re all about recruiting the best people, regardless of gender, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation or cultural background. If you think you can do the job and would be a good fit for our department, we’d love to hear from you.

The department is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children and recognises that children’s rights need to be respected, their views welcomed and valued, and their concerns taken seriously and acted upon.

For more information on working with us and our recruitment process, please visit justice.vic.gov.au/careers

We’re proud of the important work we do across Victoria. Want to be part of it?
- **Provide administration and client services for Dame Phyllis Frost Centre (DPFC)**:

- ** Ongoing role within a busy team in Corrections Victoria**:

- ** VPS Grade 2: $60,295 - $77,430 plus superannuation**

**About Us**:

- The Corrections and Justice Services (CJS) group, comprising Corrections Victoria, Justice Health and Justice Services, plays an integral role in developing safer and more resilient communities and in delivering a trusted justice and community safety system.
- Corrections Victoria is responsible for the implementation of policies, programs and services that ensure the safe and secure containment of prisoners, and that seek to rehabilitate offenders by addressing the underlying causes of offending behaviour.
- As part of the CJS group, the DPFC is a 622 bed medium to maximum-security facility for female offenders located within the West Metropolitan Region, Department of Justice.
- DPFC operates a Needs Based Precinct model, with prisoners accommodated in precincts aligned to their identified needs. DPFC has two new buildings as part of its specialist Health and Wellbeing Precinct, dedicated to supporting prisoners with mental health, cognitive impairment, physical disabilities and complex needs.

**About the Role**:

- This position will be required to provide a range of administration support services to the industry and other vocational areas of the prison. This will include, but is not restricted to, being the initial contact for customers, management of written reports and presentations, Human Resource administrative tasks, managing the prisoner pay system, general administration minute taking and meeting attendance.

**This position will entail direct prisoner contact and may involve weekend and possible public holiday work, remunerated in accordance with the applicable provision of the VPS agreement.**
- Some of your duties will include:

- Providing information and assistance to clients, internal and external stakeholders.
- Ensure compliance with procedures and practices and identify opportunities for process improvement.
- Prepare routine correspondence and reports.

**About You**:

- To be successful in this role you will be able to demonstrate:

- The ability to analyse and interpret information, undertake research and prepare reports and correspondence.
- The ability to provide executive support in a timely and efficient manner.

**How to Apply**:
**IMPORTANT INFORMATION**:
**CHILD SAFE STATEMENT OF COMMITMENT**:

- The Department of Justice and Community Safety is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children and young people. We seek to prevent harm of any kind impacting children and young people and have zero tolerance for rac ism, child abuse and inequality. Children and young people's rights, relationships, identity, and culture must be recognised and respected, their voices heard, and their concerns acted upon. We aim to foster a culturally safe, child safe and child friendly environment for all children and young people we have contact with, deliver services to, or are impacted by our work.

- Applications close Sunday 3 August 2025 at 11.59pm

Posted
- 18 July 2025