Community Service Field Officers, Tamworth Community Corrections

Community Service Field Officer

Community Corrections

Corrective Services NSW

Location:  Tamworth, Coffs Harbour, Inverell, Glen Innes, Moree, Kempsey and Lismore/Casino Community Corrections Offices

Salary: Clerk Grade 3 - $45.0064per hour

Position Type: Casual

If you enjoy a community-based role, have strong communication skills and display resilience and courage, we encourage you to apply.

We strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal candidates, as we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. Your unique perspective and experiences are highly valued and will contribute to the richness of our team.

Are you passionate about community safety and rehabilitation? Join us as a Community Service Supervisor and play a crucial role in supervising and managing offenders on mandated community service. This position offers a unique opportunity to coordinate the logistics of community service worksites while ensuring the safety and compliance of offenders. Make a difference in your community by helping offenders reintegrate and contribute positively.

What you’ll do

As part of the Community Corrections team, you will supervise offenders and ensure their safety during community service. You will direct tasks, monitor conduct, and maintain compliance with Work Health and Safety principles. Additionally, you’ll liaise with community agencies and transport offenders to and from worksites.

You’ll work as part of a supportive team dedicated to enhancing community safety and promoting rehabilitation in a dynamic environment.

What we’re looking for

• Supervisory Skills: Ability to supervise and manage offenders, ensuring compliance with safety and conduct policies.
• Work Health and Safety Knowledge: Understanding of Work Health and Safety principles and practices.
• Communication Skills: Excellent communication skills for liaising with community agencies and representatives.
• Transport and Logistics Coordination: Ability to transport offenders and coordinate the logistics of community service worksites.

Essential requirements

This is casual employment under Section 43 of the Government Sector Employment Act 2013. Ability to work up to 38 hours per week as required, during the week and weekends. Please note that at present available work would be between 8 and 24 hours per week.  Successful applicants for these positions will be required to drive a group of offenders to and from designated worksites, including to outlying areas within approx. 1 hour from the Community Corrections Office, and supervise work. A satisfactory Criminal Record Check is required and it is essential for the applicants to be fingerprinted.

• Ability to drive official vehicles and possess an appropriate level of Driver's Licence to meet all job requirements (LR required for Tamworth).
• Current First Aid Certificate (or willingness to obtain prior to commencement).

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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.

What We Offer

We offer a variety of benefits, including:

• A challenging and rewarding career
• Flexible, autonomous work environment
• Competitive pay and conditions
• Training and development opportunities to build and maintain capabilities
• Health & Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programs.

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We do work that really matters

Working for the Corrective Services NSW 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 requirements of the role as well as an up-to-date résumé (maximum 5 pages).

Applications close: Sunday,  16 February 2025 at 11:59pm AEST.

Got a question?

For more information about the role or what it’s like to work for Corrective Services NSW, please contact the hiring manager Jayne Higgins PH: (02) 6763 3700 email: Jayne.Higgins@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 (including an alternate method submission of the application), please call Lorraine Fernandes on (02) 86887253 or via email: lorraine.fernandes@dcj.nsw.gov.au  

Visit Recruitment adjustments on the DCJ website to learn more.

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 Inclusion and diversity on the DCJ website.

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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