Assessment and Transition Coordinator

**Overview**:
**Work Type**:Ongoing - Full-time

**Salary**: $79,122 - $96,073

**Grade**:VPS 3

**Occupation**:Prison and corrective services

**Location**:Melbourne

**Reference**:VG/10017AUG2025

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?
- **Contribute to prison support and transition services**:

- ** Ongoing position in a busy and supportive team within Corrections Victoria**:

- ** VPS3 salary: $79,122 to $96,073 plus superannuation**

**About the Business Unit**:

- Corrections Victoria is a business unit of the Department of Justice and Community Safety and is responsible for the management of prisons and community correctional services in Victoria.
- The Melbourne Assessment Prison (MAP) is a maximum-security facility providing state-wide assessment and orientation services for all male prisoners received into the prison system and is located within the Northwest Metropolitan Area, Department of Justice and Community Safety. MAP consists of the prison, the custody facilities at the County, Supreme and Appeal Courts and holding cells at St Vincent's Hospital for prisoners requiring outpatient medical treatment.

**About the Role**:

- Support the delivery of the CV Reintegration Program at the prison location.
- Coordinate and facilitate the delivery of sessions and services, both individually and in conjunction with service delivery providers, including co-facilitation with stakeholders and partners.
- Liaise and consult with contracted providers delivering pre
- and post-release services, and refer individual prisoners to CV Reintegration Pathway, according to eligibility requirements.
- Ensure the immediate transitional needs of unexpected discharges are supported through appropriate coordination and referrals to services. This will include supporting unexpected discharges that occur after 5.00pm and as such, may require a later work start time that allows for a finish time between 6.00pm-7.00pm.
- Liaise Community Correctional Services and Adult Parole Board to facilitate the provision of information relevant to Parole Suitability Assessments.

**This role has direct prisoner contact and may involve weekend and public holiday work, remunerated in accordance with the applicable provision of the VPS Determination.**

**About You**:

- To be successful in this role you will be able to demonstrate:

- Understanding of transition and reintegration issues and needs of pri soners.
- Ability to administer risk assessment tools with individual prisoners.
- Capacity or aptitude to work with clients who are difficult to engage individually and in group work settings.
- Capacity to work collaboratively within a prison setting.
- A tertiary qualification in an appropriate discipline is desirable.
- Skills and experience in human services, welfare practice, education or related fields is also 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.

- Applications close Thursday 18 September 2025 at 11.59pm

Posted
- 4 September 2025