Community Corrections Officer

Division: Community Industry & Capacity
- Location: Nowra, NSW, AU, 2541
- Req ID: 77718

**Community Corrections Officer**

**Nowra Community Corrections,**

**South District, Corrective Services NSW**

**Location**:Nowra Community Corrections

**Salary**: Clerk Grade 5/6** (**$99,938 pa - $110, 270 pa), plus super and leave loading

**Position Type**: Talent Pool Creation for Ongoing and Temporary Full-Time roles and Part-Time roles (Flexible working hours)

**Training**: Paid training with a Certificate IV in Correctional Practice

**Your role**

As a Community Corrections Officer, you will join a dedicated and dynamic team focused on offender rehabilitation and enhancing community safety. In this role, you will collaborate with individuals under supervision to develop and implement rehabilitative strategies, monitor progress toward established goals, and conduct home visits to ensure compliance with conditions. You will benefit from a supportive work environment and opportunities to engage in staff activities, all while making a meaningful impact in the community.

**What you’ll do**

**_ _**What we’re looking for**
- Individuals committed to upholding our values and behaviours, with a strong focus on ensuring community safety.
- A dedication to fostering positive relationships between Communities and Justice, with particular emphasis on supporting the local Aboriginal and CALD communities.
- Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to maintain confidentiality and demonstrate integrity in all interactions.
- Experience in case management, along with high resilience, strong motivation, and a proactive, positive attitude.
- Develop and implement effective strategies while demonstrating decisiveness in managing emotionally charged situations and addressing complex or controversial issues.

For more information on the day-to-day life of a Community Corrections Officer, review - A Day in the life of a CCO & Resilience as a CCO

Download the role description.

**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.
- Want more information? Visit our website to see more information on Working for us.

**We do work that really matters**

Working for Corrective Services NSW (CSNSW) provides opportunities to make a real difference. We collaborate with government and non-government justice and human services agencies to support victims, facilitate restorative justice, and promote reintegration. We're focused on breaking, rather than managing, disadvantage. It’s work that really matters.

**About us**:
Nowra Community Corrections is a large community corrections team offering exposure to community, pre-release and reporting centre contexts on the beautiful South Coast.

We acknowledge the multiple clans and lands of the Yuin Nation and Dharawal people as the traditional custodians of the land on which we work.

Nowra is an Improving Aboriginal Outcomes (IAO) innovation site, servicing a high volume of Aboriginal clients and communities, currently offering the Staying on Track Reintegration pilot, in addition to other IAO initiatives.

There is strong collaboration with community partners and South Coast Correctional Centre multi-disciplinary teams, with the opportunity to work in parole units at that centre.

Nowra Community Corrections Officers are supported by a holistic Circle of Services Specialist Team, inclusive of a Senior Psychologist, a Co-Existing Disorders Coordinator, an Aboriginal Community Engagement and Culture Officer, an Aboriginal Reintegration Officer, Services and Programs Officer and a Initial Transitional Service (ITS) case worker, promoting collaborative, dignified case management practice that support improved outcomes for our clients and the community

Staff act with integrity and respect for each other and all our stakeholders.

**Are you ready to join us?**

Click apply, **attach a cover letter (maximum 2 pages)** **outlining how you meet the focus capabilities/requirements of the role as well as an up-to-date résumé (maximum 3 pages).**
- We are looking for you to demonstrate your competency in the focus capabilities as detailed in the role description_

**Applications close 28 September 2025 at 11:00pm AEST.**

**_ A talent pool may be created for future temporary and ongoing roles at Nowra Community Corrections only._**

**Got a question?**

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 a