Community Service Field Officer

Division: Corrective Services NSW- Location: Batemans Bay, NSW, AU, 2536 Bega, NSW, AU, 2550- Req ID: 70582**Community Service Field Officer**

**Community Corrections**

**Corrective Services NSW**

**Location**: Batemans Bay and Bega Community Corrections Office

**Salary**: Clerk Grade 3 - $43.27 per hour

**Position Type**:Causal

**If you enjoy a community-based role, have strong communication skills and display resilience and courage, we encourage you to apply.**

Are you passionate about community safety and rehabilitation? Join us as a Community Service Supervisor and play a crucial role in supervising and managing offenders on mandated community service. This position offers a unique opportunity to coordinate the logistics of community service worksites while ensuring the safety and compliance of offenders. Make a difference in your community by helping offenders reintegrate and contribute positively.

**What you’ll do**

As part of the Community Corrections team, you will supervise offenders and ensure their safety during community service. You will direct tasks, monitor conduct, and maintain compliance with Work Health and Safety principles. Additionally, you’ll liaise with community agencies and transport offenders to and from worksites.

You’ll work as part of a supportive team dedicated to enhancing community safety and promoting rehabilitation in a dynamic environment.

**What we’re looking for**
- Supervisory Skills: Ability to supervise and manage offenders, ensuring compliance with safety and conduct policies.
- Work Health and Safety Knowledge: Understanding of Work Health and Safety principles and practices.
- Communication Skills: Excellent communication skills for liaising with community agencies and representatives.
- Transport and Logistics Coordination: Ability to transport offenders and coordinate the logistics of community service worksites.

**Essential requirements**

This is casual employment under Section 43 of the Government Sector Employment Act 2013. Ability to work up to 38 hours per week as required, during the week and weekends. Successful applicants for these positions will be required to drive a group of offenders to and from designated worksites and supervise work. A satisfactory Criminal Record Check is required and it is essential for the applicants to be fingerprinted.
- Ability to drive official vehicles and possess an appropriate level of Driver's Licence to meet all job requirements (Sydney Metro and South Coast applicants require a Class LR licence).
- Current First Aid Certificate (or willingness to obtain prior to commencement).

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**What We Offer**

We offer a variety of benefits, including:

- A challenging and rewarding career
- Flexible, autonomous work environment
- Competitive pay and conditions
- Training and development opportunities to build and maintain capabilities
- Health & Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programs.

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**We do work that really matters**

Working for the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) provides lots of opportunities to make a real difference. We collaborate with other agencies and community partners, to improve lives and realise the potential of children, adults, families and communities. We're focused on breaking, rather than managing, disadvantage. It’s work that really matters.

**Are you ready to join us?**

Click apply, attach a cover letter (maximum 2 pages) outlining how you meet the requirements of the role as well as an up-to-date résumé (maximum 5 pages).

**Applications close **Sunday** **10th November 2024** **at 11:59pm AEST.

**Got a question?**

For more information about the role or what it’s like to work for DCJ, please contact the hiring manager Kat Dragosevic

Visit Recruitment adjustments on the DCJ website to learn more.

**Inclusion and Diversity lies at the heart of how we recruit**

We continue to hire great people with a wide variety of skills, experience and backgrounds. This includes people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, women, people identifying as LGBTIQ+, culturally and linguistically diverse people, carers and other diversity groups.

To find out what DCJ are doing to build an inclusive and diverse workforce, visit Inclusion and diversity on the DCJ website.

**Other Information**

A talent pool may be created for future ongoing and temporary roles and is valid for a period of up to 18 months.

For more information visit Your recruitment journey on the DCJ website.