Safety Coordinator

**Overview**:
**Work type**:Full time

**Salary**:$97,955 - $111,142

**Grade**:VPSG4

**Occupation**: Prison and Corrective Services

**Location**: Melbourne

**Reference**: VG/1867893JUNE2025

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?
- ** Utilise your Safety Coordinator expertise to provide support and advice to Corrections Victoria.**:

- **Fixed-Term, Full-Time opportunity to work with a high-performing and passionate team in the Victorian Public Service.**:

- **VPS Grade 4: $97,955 - $111,142 per annum plus superannuation.**

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

**About the Business Unit**

Corrections Victoria is part of the Corrections and Justice Services group in the Department of Justice and Community Safety. Corrections Victoria operates Victoria's adult custodial corrections system and Post Sentence Scheme. Its vision is for Safer Prisons, Safer People, Safer Communities. Corrections Victoria's mission is to create a safer, smarter system with a skilled and supported workforce, that enables people in our care to make better decisions.

As part of the CJS group, the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre (DPFC) is a 694-bed maximum-security facility for female offenders located within the West Metropolitan Area.

**About the Role**

Some of your duties will include:

- Contributing to the delivery of operational initiatives by working collaboratively with the Safety and Assurance Manager and key partners.
- Coordinating day to day safety support and action directed at process, systems and services to support Corrections Victoria to deliver a safe and healthy workplace for staff and to meet its responsibilities under health and safety laws.
- Participating in local incident reviews and investigations to support learning and continuous improvement aligned to the Safer Prisons Strategy and ‘A Safer Place to Work' methodology.

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:

- Subject matter expert in occupational health and safety management systems with demonstrated business partnering experience to meet operational demand.
- Proven experience managing a diverse stakeholder group to deliver consistent and quality safety service.

**Qualifications/requirements**
- The relevant tertiary qualifications and/or demonstrated extensive experience in safety are desirable.
- A full and current driver's license is required due to the need to work across different locations.

**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 Monday 30 June 2025 at 11.59PM

Posted 16 June 2025