Offender Services Supervisor

**Provide management and coordination of internal and external programs delivered at the location**:

- **Ongoing, full-time opportunity**:

- **VPS4: $97,955 - $111,142 plus superannuation**

The Department of Justice and Community Safety (the department) is seeking an Offender Services Supervisor, to provide a critical role within Tarrengower Prison, Corrections and Justice Services.

**About the Business Unit**

Tarrengower is a minimum-security prison accommodating up to 72 female offenders and is situated 2 kms from Maldon in Central Victoria. Tarrengower's emphasis is on release preparation and community reintegration through the provision of programs within a rehabilitative environment. Tarrengower emphasises the principles of a healthy prison where children can be accommodated with their mothers ensuring the family unit is maintained and developed. Tarrengower strongly recognises cultural diversity, respecting individual religious, spiritual, and cultural beliefs.

**About the Role**

The Offender Services Supervisor will be a suitably experienced individual with training and experience in the coordination of individual and group programs and interventions. The role will involve the sourcing and coordinating of services and psycho-educational skills-based programs to meet the needs of the women in custody. All programs delivered aim to reduce the risk of re-offending by assisting offenders to develop key skills to support their reintegration into the community. The Offender Services Supervisor will also have a role in case consultation, behavioural management, and resolving issues concerned with program participation/engagement and attendance, in consultation with the Case Management Review Committee at the location and other key stakeholders as required.

The Offender Services Supervisor role is to assist in development, implementation and evaluation of evidence-based programs, according to current correctional philosophies, legislative requirements, prison policies and correctional standards. The role involves direct prisoner contact and may involve occasional weekend and public holiday work, in accordance with the applicable provision of the VPS Agreement

Some of your duties will include:

- Coordinate psycho-educational skills-based programs.
- Manage the delivery of vocational and transitional programs.
- Provide oversight of the supported distance education program under the guidance of the Offender Services Manager.

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

**About you**

To be successful in this role, you will have:

- Knowledge of and experience in dealing with the limitations imposed on offenders in a correctional environment.
- Demonstrated experience in both facilitating and coordinating prison-based programs (highly desirable).

**Qualifications**
- A relevant tertiary qualification in the human services, or welfare fields is desirable.

**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.