Parole Officer

**Ongoing, full-time position based in Bendigo**:

- **Contribute to community safety by proactively motivating and engaging people on parole**:

- **Comprehensive training and career development**

**About us**

**About the role**

This also includes identifying risk escalation behaviours and responding appropriately in consultation with managerial staff, interviewing and assessing prisoners on parole to produce quality reports to the APB, and assessing and referring prisoners on parole to appropriate programs and specialised services.

Through this you will ensure that your case management practices align with best practice principles and the Correctional Practice Framework.

**To be successful in this role, you will have**:

- experience in the case management of complex and high-risk clients
- knowledge and experience in best practice risk and therapeutic initiatives
- excellent verbal and written communication skills including detailed report writing experience.

Experience working within a legislative framework is also desirable.

**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. Our benefits include:

- A fair salary with yearly increases in line with the VPS agreement
- Generous leave entitlements
- Transparent performance framework
- Employee Wellbeing support
- Comprehensive training when you commence and throughout your career
- Secondments and promotion opportunities
- Salary sacrificing options and more.

**How to apply**
- Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people are strongly encouraged to apply._

**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.