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Community Work Officer
2 weeks ago
Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan
Job type: Other / Various
Organisation: Department of Justice and Community Safety
**Salary**: $73,842 - $81,753
Occupation: Prison and Corrective Services
Reference: DOJ/69131058M
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?
- ** X1 Fixed Term, full time position (based at Thomastown)**:
- **x1 Ongoing, full time position (based across Thomastown and Derrimut)**:
- **Promote offender rehabilitation through meaningful community work**:
- **Be part of a highly motivated and supportive team who take pride in their work**
**About us**
Corrections Victoria's purpose is to deliver an effective corrections system for a safe community. Community Correctional Services (CCS), is overseen by Corrections Victoria, a division of the Department of Justice and Community Safety. CCS is responsible for the management and supervision of prisoners on parole, clients under post sentence supervision and court orders.
CCS is currently experiencing rapid growth in the offender population. In response to this, Corrections Victoria will embed evidence based practice across all areas of our work and target responses to the areas that will allow the greatest impacts to be made. This approach will contribute to a safer community and strengthen CCS for the future.
**About the role**
As the Community Work Officer, you will be responsible for providing community work opportunities and contracts to enable offenders to complete their community work hours and orders successfully. You will administer relevant community work practices including monitoring attendance and compliance with requirements at community work placements, and contracting offenders to appropriate local community work sites.
You will build and maintain effective relationships with Community Work Supervisors (field staff), community work partners and other relevant stakeholders, produce reports and standard documentation in line with procedural guidelines and undertake on-site risk assessments or other occupational health and safety processes as required.
The position will be based across both Thomastown and Derrimut locations, based on operational need.
**To be successful in this role you will**:
- strive for service excellence, with excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- be able to self-manage, using available information to make sound, timely and well informed decisions
- be flexible and adaptable to change
- have computer proficiency, including in the use of the Microsoft Office suite, electronic document management systems and internal databases.
Relevant experience in a related community services, not for profit or community development field is also desirable.
For further information about this position, please contact **Irena Peraica on 0438 753 781.**
**Why work with us?**
At the Department of Justice and Community Safety, we provide every person with the means to achieve their potential through ongoing learning and development opportunities in a diverse, equitable and supportive environment.
We look for people who are prepared to do their very best in line with our values and behaviours. Our values shape and influence how we recruit, train and develop our staff and build relationships with stakeholders.
We will also provide you with professional development opportunities, an employee assistance program, access to job opportunities across the Victorian Government, salary packaging and much more.
**How to apply**
**_ FOR INTERNAL VPS EMPLOYEES: _**
**_IMPORTANT INFORMATION:_**
**MANDATORY VACCINATIONS**:
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,
