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YOUR ROLE

Coordinate, supervise and direct the work of Youth Officers across Frank Baxter Youth Justice Centre to ensure that daily routines, admissions and discharges, security, casework and program attendance to ensure the appropriate care and custody of youth, safety of staff and consistent application of the unit program, in accordance with legislation, policies and procedures and deal with issues and risks as they arise.
This role is committed to improving outcomes for the benefit of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Develop and maintain relationships with the Aboriginal community and key stakeholders to successfully deliver programs.
• Coordinate and supervise a team by risk assessing and prioritising the needs of the centre to allocate workload, supervise routines, facilitation of admissions and discharges, and incident response coordination to ensure consistent delivery of services and maintain safety and security in adherence to legislation and departmental policies and procedures.
• Prepare, submit and maintain various reports and records on issues such as security, unit issues, behaviour management, incidents, programming, staffing issues, ensuring reports and records are accurate and submitted in a timely manner.
• Coordinate and assist staff and resources allowing adequate time for internal and external stakeholders working with detainees to complete case management activities, programs, and therapeutic intervention.
• Respond to detainee misbehaviour and incidents through gathering information, providing guidance to staff, escalating issues as required, making inquiries into misbehaviour and adhering to legislation, departmental policies, procedures and delegations, and mediate between detainees and Youth Officers where conflict arises, and initiate first stage mediation if necessary.
• Support Youth Officer’s in detainee supervision and participate in decision making around detainees including internal and external detainee movements, ensuring documentation is accurate and provide advice to staff on detainee management to ensure best practice processes and procedures and required policies are applied. This will include direct supervision and support of detainees when necessary.
• Ensure detainee records are maintained and oversee that the quality and integrity of data maintained is in compliance with legislation and operating procedures.
• Contribute to team performance and development through self-assessment, feedback, discussing staff goals and progress and identifying and recommending staff development opportunities and training.
• Liaise with internal and external stakeholders to seek advice and information on security issues, psychological, educational and specialist programs, nursing/health services, occupational health and safety, training and equity, and daily support services.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST IN THIS ROLE. WE LOOK FORWARD TO RECEIVING YOUR APPLICATION.

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Appointments are subject to reference checks. Some roles may also require the following checks/ clearances:

• National Criminal History Record Check in accordance with the Disability Inclusion Act 201

Click apply. You will need to attach an up-to-date résumé (maximum five pages) and a cover letter (maximum three pages) with a brief outline on how you meet the focus capabilities & requirements of the role and answer the two targeted questions below:

• Can you please tell us about your understanding of the issues faced by Aboriginal young people and their families? What approaches have you taken to addressing some of these challenges when working with Aboriginal young people?
• Identify a time when you have managed and supported a staff member who has challenged you. What did you do, what was the outcome, and is there anything you would do differently