Industries Officer

Utilise your Industry Officer expertise to provide support and advice to Corrections and Justice Services branch
- Ongoing, Full-Time opportunity to work with a high-performing and passionate team in the Victorian Public Service
- COG2B: $77,730- $89,386 plus superannuation.

**About You**:
The Metropolitan Remand Centre is a 954-bed maximum-security facility for unsentenced male offenders located within the West Metropolitan Region, Department of Justice.
Prison Industry Staff are responsible for industry training, work, and employment in the prison environment. The role requires, maturity sound judgement and confidence in decision making, with developed capabilities to coach, mentor and motivate prisoners while working as a member of the Vocational Services Team. The Vocational Services team includes education staff, industry staff, who work together to achieve program and service outcomes in a multidisciplinary team and rehabilitative environment.
Prison Industry officers have a major role to play in ensuring compliance with prison and prison industry procedures and particularly with Occupational Health and Safety issues in industry areas. At MRC, Industry Officers will play a significant and important role in training and assessing prisoners in relevant accredited trade skills units according to the specific work environment.
An important facet of an MRC Industry Officers role, therefore, involves liaison with internal staff and external stakeholders to make informed contributions to the development and delivery of programs and processes

**About the Role**:
Custodial duties may involve conducting searches, surveillance, observing and assessing prisoner behaviour in the trade areas and operating a variety of security and industrial equipment, collating information, and preparing reports and management of critical incidents.
At MRC Industry Prison Officers play an integral role in offender management and the implementation of offender management plans. They actively participate in teams and reference groups to provide advice through written reports to Industry Supervisors and senior management.

**Some of your duties will include**:

- As part of a team working to ensure the operational aims of the MRC Industries are achieved. These include possible commercial production internal targets and customer expectations, ordering and maintaining control of stock, materials, financial records and providing an industry model-workplace training environment.
- Effectively managing all work areas to ensure the safety and security of prisoners, staff and any visitors. This includes appropriate levels of surveillance and interaction within the facility, and monitoring staff and prisoners for compliance with all Occupational Health and Safety, and security procedures.
- Working as part of a team in all aspects of prison industry operations including prisoner training and assessment, case management, program and service knowledge and involvement, maintenance of professional boundaries, willingness to undertake personal skills development and training, contribution to the prison and to the prison industry production procedures.

**About You**:

- Sound knowledge of OH&S requirements relevant to the trade area, relevant legislative responsibilities related to employment supervision and training of industry workers.
- Ability to understand how emotional responses can be expressed in work situations and the impact they may have on self or others; able to assess personal strengths and weakness using feedback from other team members.
- Ability to accept changed priorities without undue discomfort. Responds quickly to changes. Comfortable working in collaboration with teams outside of own organisation.

**How to Apply**:
**FOR INTERNAL VPS EMPLOYEES**:
**IMPORTANT INFORMATION**:
The department is committed to providing and maintaining a working environment which is safe and without risk to the health of its employees consistent with the department's obligations under the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (Vic). Therefore, there is a requirement that all DJCS employees be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to undertake duties outside of their homes.
At interview stage and prior to commencement of employment with the department, you will need to provide evidence that you are vaccinated against COVID-19 with three doses of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Upon commencement of employment with the department you will be required to provide evidence that you have an up-to-date vaccination status within the timelines specified by the department into the DJCS Service Portal. This includes evidence of three doses of a COVID-19 vaccine required by the department (from time to time).

**Acceptable evidence includes**:
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- COVID-19 digital certificate (available via your myGov account)
- Your immunisation history statement (available via your myGov account)

Other documentation outside the above will not be accepted as evidence of having