Indigenous Peer Support Officer

6 days ago

Wooroloo, Australia Serco Full time

This is an amazing opportunity to make a difference within the local community.
- Drive impactful outcomes and team collaboration
- Make a difference in a role where no 2 days are the same

**About the Opportunity**

The Indigenous Peer Support Officer will foster and promote a sense of well-being amongst the prisoner cohort by the provision of a service which instils harmony, understanding, support and reduces the levels of distress and incidents of self-harm amongst prisoners.

This is an amazing opportunity to make a difference within the local community.

**What you’ll be doing**
- Implement, co-ordinate and manage the Peer Support Prisoner (PSP) team within the Prison.
- Ensure interventions for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) prisoners are specific or adapted to meet cultural needs
- Contribute to the multidisciplinary management of prisoners requiring additional support through communication with relevant custodial staff and contributing to Prison Risk Assessment Group (PRAG)
- Act as a positive role model to all staff, prisoners and visitors, treating all with whom he/she comes into contact with respect and decency.
- Ensure interventions for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) prisoners are specific or adapted to meet cultural needs
- Ensure the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody are incorporated into Operating Procedures and practices and are updated as required
- Participation with Aboriginal Support Groups with regular meetings in the Facility with links to Aboriginal service organisations outside
- Facilitate ATSI prisoners access to recognised Elders

**About you - your ideal skills & experience**
- Relevant industry experience OR Tertiary qualifications in either Social Work, Counselling, Social Sciences
- Demonstrated experience working with people from a range of cultural backgrounds
- Cultural awareness including understanding the impact and management of different ethnic backgrounds, customs and contemporary issues
- Demonstrate the highest level of personal integrity and ethical behaviour
- Comprehensive knowledge of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people customs and contemporary issues
- This is a position of trust and responsibility and to support this we will conduct a thorough probity assessment, which includes a Federal police check as an essential selection component for this role._

**About us - Serco & proud**

**Why Join Us**
- You’d be joining a company that delivers essential public services (in partnership with governments) that **impact a better future for communities**, & those in our care
- ** You’ll get to have an impact on how we do things**:Enjoy being part of a driven team with a collaborative culture that values decision-makers & action.
- **We Invest in you**:Accelerate your career through our learning & development opportunities - think skills based training, defined career pathways & fantastic internal mobility opportunities across the group

For any additional questions, or to learn more, please contact me - Karis Daniele - Talent Acqusition Business Partner - 0419 727 433
- Serco’s values of Trust, Care, Innovation and Pride underpin everything we do. We are curious, creative and collaborative. Our people matter and make a difference every day._

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