Aboriginal Peer Support Worker

20 hours ago

Wooroloo, Western Australia Serco Full time $60,000 - $90,000 per year
Passionate about promoting rehabilitation and reintegration
Ensuring that Aboriginal representation is sincere and ongoing
Fixed Term role based at the Acacia Prison in Wooroloo

About the role

You will foster and promote a sense of well-being amongst the prisoner cohort by the provisions of a service which instils harmony, understanding, support and reduce the level of distress and incidents of self-harm amongst the Aboriginal population. This will be achieved through collaboration with Rehabilitation and Reintegration, to ensure that all Aboriginal inmates are aware of the opportunities they can perform and to undertake educational courses in self-development, skills acquisition, vocational education and training – including Aboriginal history and culture.

About You

As an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) person, you are passionate about producing better outcomes for ATSI prisoners, their families and communities. You have comprehensive knowledge of ATSI people customs and contemporary issues. You have a collaborative and influential approach, whilst supporting prisoner management and the successful transfer or reintegration into the community. You are passionate, driven, and demonstrate exceptional moral values in all that you do.

To be successful in this role, you will have;

· The highest levels of personal integrity and ethical behaviour

· A tertiary qualification in Social Work, Social Sciences and/ or relevant industry experience and/ or active member of the Aboriginal Community

· Demonstrated experience working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people involved in and affected by the correctional system

· Experience in service delivery in a human service industry

· Comprehensive knowledge of all equal opportunity and race relations legislation

· Sound knowledge of the delivery of social welfare service in an institution environment

This is a position of trust and responsibility and to support this we will conduct a thorough probity assessment, which includes a national police check as an essential selection component for this role.

Serco requires employees in this role to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our people. Please consider this requirement when submitting your application.

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At Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, but everyone also has an important role to play from caring for vulnerable people to managing complex public services. We are a team of 60,000+ globally and 16,000+ in Asia Pacific responsible for delivering essential public services in areas including defence, justice, immigration, healthcare, facilities management and citizen services.

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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.

We seek and celebrate diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds and cultures including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGTBQI+, veterans and people with disability. By joining Serco you will have access to Employee Networks led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging.

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