Operations Manager

Contribute to ongoing strategic planning, implementation and improvement of prison operations.
- Ongoing opportunity to work within the Melbourne Assessment Prison and Courts.
- COG Grade 4: $100,547 - $122,684 plus superannuation.

The Department of Justice and Community Safety is seeking an Operations Manager to provide a critical role within Corrections Victoria.

About the Business Unit
The Melbourne Assessment Prison (MAP) is a maximum-security correctional facility located on the fringe of the Melbourne CBD. The Prison is the State's main reception prison, receiving prisoners directly from the Courts and Police and provides assessment and orientation services for all male prisoners received into the prison system. The MAP also operates the Melbourne County Court, Supreme Court and Supreme Court Appeals custody facilities, located on the corners of William and Lonsdale Streets in the CBD.
These facilities manage both male and female prisoners of all security ratings, operating Monday to Friday. The location also manages the St Vincent's Hospital holding cells, providing custodial liaison and coordination of all prisoner escorts attending the hospital for medical outpatient appointments from prison locations across the State. Map also looks after the security function at the Adult Parole Board and the Post Sentence Authority located at 50 Franklin Street West Melbourne.
About the Role
The Operations Manager manages the high level, day-to-day operational needs of the prison, contributing to the ongoing strategic planning, implementation, and improvement of prison operations in a changing environment.
The Operations Manager will be responsible for managing a team of custodial and non-custodial officers delivering a range of correctional services for which the incumbent will require superior leadership skills.

**Some of your duties will include**:

- Provide leadership to staff, promoting the prison's priorities and managing staff in ways that reflect those priorities.
- Develop, manage and ensure the quality of the delivery of custodial processes including offender management, movement control, operation of security equipment, reception and discharge, escorts, visitors and visits, urinalysis, searching, security procedures, disciplinary issues and hearings and Review and Assessment
- Ensure delivery of custodial services and integrate this delivery with education, industry, clinical services and reintegration services.

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**:

- Demonstrated commitment to working with staff, prisoners and other service providers in the delivery of an integrated, whole of prison program approach to reducing re-offending.
- Demonstrated experience and skill in areas relevant to correctional delivery, offender management and/or offender treatment.
- Knowledge of the Corrections Act 1986 and Corrections Regulations 2019
- Knowledge of the 2021 Cultural Review of the Adult Custodial Corrections System
- Knowledge of Corrections Victoria Case Management practices and understanding how structured interventions reduce re-offending.

**Qualifications**:

- The successful applicant will be required to complete Prison Officer Pre-Service Training on commencement if not previously completed.
- A full and current Victorian driver's licence or a minimum P2 driver's licence.

Desirable Qualifications
- Certificate III or IV in Correctional Practice

How to Apply

**FOR INTERNAL VPS EMPLOYEES**:
**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.