Work Type: Ongoing - Full-time
Salary: $83,288 - $95,778
Grade: Cog2B
Occupation: Prison and corrective services
Location: Melbourne - Western suburbs
Reference: DJCS/1374_JAN26
The Department of Justice and Community Safety is seeking an Industry Officer – Horticulture/Maintenance to provide a critical role at Metropolitan Remand Centre.
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.
About the Role
Prison Industry Staff are responsible for industry training, work, and employment in the prison environment. The role requires, maturity sound judgement and confidence in decision making, with developed capabilities to coach, mentor and motivate prisoners while working as a member of the Vocational Services Team. The Vocational Services team includes education staff, industry staff, who work together to achieve program and service outcomes in a multidisciplinary team and rehabilitative environment.
Prison Industry officers have a major role to play in ensuring compliance with prison and prison industry procedures and particularly with Occupational Health and Safety issues in industry areas. At MRC, Industry Officers will play a significant and important role in training and assessing prisoners in relevant accredited trade skills units according to the specific work environment.
An important facet of an MRC Industry Officers role, therefore, involves liaison with internal staff and external stakeholders to make informed contributions to the development and delivery of programs and processes
Custodial duties may involve conducting searches, surveillance, observing and assessing prisoner behaviour in the trade areas and operating a variety of security and industrial equipment, collating information, and preparing reports and management of critical incidents.
At MRC Industry Prison Officers play an integral role in offender management and the implementation of offender management plans. They actively participate in teams and reference groups to provide advice through written reports to Industry Supervisors and senior management. Provide brief overview of the business unit/branch and purpose of the position.
Some of your duties will include:
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:
Qualifications/requirements
How to Apply
Please click the Apply button on this advertisement. Applications should include a resume and covering letter. Attachments can be uploaded in .doc, .docx, .pdf, .txt or .rtf formats.
The successful candidate will be required to undergo pre-employment checks which may include a Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check (NCCHC) and misconduct screening.
If you require adjustments to the recruitment and selection process, or require an alternative format to any of the application material, please don't hesitate to get in touch with the contact person listed on this ad.
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.