Team Leader - Kempsey Community Corrections - Talent Pool creation

Team Leader Community Corrections

Talent Pool Creation

Corrective Services NSW

Location: Kempsey Community Corrections Offices

Position Type: Ongoing 35 hours per week

Salary:  Clerk Grade 8 starting at $118,296 plus employer’s contribution to Superannuation and Annual Leave Loading.

Join us Now. Take Action. Become a Community Corrections Team Leader to inspire and make an impact on the team!

Aboriginal candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

Your role

Community Corrections Team Leaders provide professional support, mentoring and leadership to the team to ensure a high standard of professional service delivery that is compliant with legislation, policies, and procedures.

What you’ll do

Develop a cohesive team while guiding and supporting team members with differing levels of skills and competence in a changing work environment. Provide clear and supportive feedback to develop and support staff to promote individual accountability. Provide oversight of caseloads with complex and high risk offenders. There are extensive training opportunities and promotional opportunities on progression. If you enjoy guiding and supporting team members and liaising across multiple stakeholders, then this work will interest you!

What we’re looking for

• Energy, enthusiasm, and commitment to excellence
• The ability to work with people to build a team environment whilst inspiring purpose in staff to achieve results
• Self motivation, self-awareness and the ability to communicate clearly and confidently
• The ability to give and receive direct, honest, and clear feedback

Download the role description

For more information about Community Corrections please refer:

https://correctiveservices.dcj.nsw.gov.au/csnsw-home/community-corrections.html

We focus on hiring people who share our commitment and goals of inclusion, collaboration, adaptability, courage and integrity. If you meet the essential requirements and the role resonates with you, please apply – you do not need to meet every desired requirement for us to want to talk to you.

We do work that really matters

Working for the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) provides lots of opportunities to make a real difference. We collaborate with other agencies and community partners, to improve lives and realise the potential of children, adults, families and communities. We're focused on breaking, rather than managing, disadvantage. It’s work that really matters.

Apply now and join Australia’s top public sector employer where we will support you and provide an exciting and flexible working environment!

Are you ready to join us?

Click apply, attach a cover letter (maximum 2 pages) outlining how you meet the capabilities of the role as well as an up-to-date résumé (maximum 5 pages).

To strengthen your application we recommend you review Your Recruitment Journey and specifically the Capability Application Tool to give you examples of interview questions and to understand how we recruit and measure your capability for the role.

Applications close on Sunday, 23 March 2025 at 11:59pm AEST.

Got a question?

For more information about the role or what it’s like to work for DCJ, please contact the hiring manager Leigh Philpott or at leigh.philpott@dcj.nsw.gov.au.

If you’ve got a question about applying or would benefit from an adjustment in the recruitment process to help you perform at your best, please call Lorraine Fernandes on 0475 878 312 or via lorraine.fernandes@justice.nsw.gov.au

Inclusion and Diversity lies at the heart of how we recruit

We continue to hire great people with a wide variety of skills, experience and backgrounds. This includes people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, women, people identifying as LGBTIQ+, culturally and linguistically diverse people, carers and other diversity groups.

To find out what DCJ are doing to build an inclusive and diverse workforce, visit our careers site.

Other Information

A Talent Pool may be created for future ongoing and temporary roles and is valid for a period of up to 18 months.

Thank you for your interest in this role. We look forward to receiving your application

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