Justice Officer

Location: Melbourne | Western Metropolitan

Job type: Full time / 1/4/2025

Organisation: Department of Justice and Community Safety

**Salary**: $58,539 - $75,175

Occupation: Administration/Secretarial

Reference: VG/EM0718DECEMBER2024

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?
- ** Utilise your Administrative expertise to provide support and advice to Justice Services within the North West Metropolitan Area**:

- **A Fixed-Term, Full-Time**opportunity to work with a high-performing and passionate team in the Victorian Public Service until 1st April 2025**:

- **VPS Grade 2: $58,539 - $75,175 plus superannuation.**

**About the Business Unit**:
Located across the NWMA are fourteen non-custodial locations in the Melbourne CBD, Broadmeadows, Coolaroo, Reservoir, Heidelberg, South Morang, Melton, Sunshine, Werribee, Derrimut, Laverton, Tullamarine and Thomastown, plus the Neighbourhood Justice Centre in Collingwood, and the Court Services Unit at the Melbourne Magistrates Court. There are four youth justice office locations in Fitzroy, Footscray, Preston and Sunshine. There are three maximum security prisons - Dame Phyllis Frost Centre, Melbourne Assessment Prison and the Metropolitan Remand Centre, as well as the minimum-security Judy Lazarus Transition Centre.

**About the Role**:
The Justice Officer role is to deliver friendly, efficient customer service to clients of the Department of Justice and Regulation, as well as providing consistent, timely and accurate administrative support to regional locations and staff. Please note that Accountabilities differ depending on the work location.

Some of your duties will include:

- Providing reception and telephone responses for the location.

The position is based at the Melbourne Justice Service Centre. However, it is an expectation of the role that the successful applicant is willing to support at other locations across either the North Metro (Broadmeadows, Coolaroo, Reservoir, South Morang, Tullamarine, and Heidelberg). A driver's license is therefore preferred but not essential.

To learn more about this role before applying, please read the attached position description.

**About You**:
**Written Communication** - The ability to produce a range of standard written documents, providing clear information and using language appropriate to the audience

**Verbal Communication** - The ability to assess the audience and provide appropriately-tailored and clear information and explanations to a range of groups in an effective and confident manner, dealing with challenging behaviour firmly but politely.

To learn more about the Technical Expertise you will require for this role, please read the attached position description.

**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 racism, 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.

North West Metropolitan Area