Justice Officer

Utilise your Prison and Corrective Services expertise to provide support and advice to Corrections Victoria at the Metropolitan Remand Centre (MRC)
- An Ongoing, Full-Time opportunity to work with a high-performing and passionate team in the Victorian Public Service
- VPS Grade 2: $56,834 - $72,985 plus superannuation.

**About the Business Unit**:
The Metropolitan Remand Centre is a 954-bed maximum-security facility for unsentenced male offenders located within the West Metropolitan Region, Department of Justice and Community Safety.
At the Metropolitan Remand Centre (MRC), each Justice Officer role specialises in one of five streams Records/Property, Human Resources, Stores/Canteen, Infrastructure/Technology/Finance and Administration. Over time, and with appropriate support and training, Justice Officers may be rotated between these streams to provide career enhancement opportunities to those staff, and operational flexibility to the prison.

**About the Role**:
In the role of Justice Officer - Offender Services, some of your duties will include:

- Working within a multidisciplinary team to contribute to the holistic management of prisoners at the MRC, including supporting community transition, monitoring, and encouraging program involvement and contributing to community referral for post release issues
- Under direction, providing individual assessments and referrals which are responsive to individual prisoner needs
- Under direction, facilitating group prisoner orientation sessions and information sessions.

To learn more about this role before applying, please read the attached position description.
- Demonstrated proficiency in the use of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Experience in or understanding of working within a Correctional environment

**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.