Overview
Work Type: Ongoing - Full-time
Salary: $79,122 - $96,073
Grade: VPS 3
Occupation: Prison and corrective services
Location: Grampians - Ararat
Reference: VG/10022AUGUST2025
At the Department of Justice and Community Safety, we’re looking for people who want to make a difference. People who take pride in their work. People who get things done. People who are committed to making Victoria a safer place.
We embrace diversity and strive to have a workforce that reflects the community we serve. We’re all about recruiting the best people, regardless of gender, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or cultural background. If you think you can do the job and would be a good fit for our department, we’d love to hear from you.
The department is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children and recognises that children’s rights need to be respected, their views welcomed and valued, and their concerns taken seriously and acted upon.
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.
For more information on working with us and our recruitment process, please visit justice.vic.gov.au/careers
We’re proud of the important work we do across Victoria. Want to be part of it?
We embrace diversity and strive to have a workforce that reflects the community we serve. We’re all about recruiting the best people, regardless of gender, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or cultural background. If you think you can do the job and would be a good fit for our department, we’d love to hear from you.
The department is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children and recognises that children’s rights need to be respected, their views welcomed and valued, and their concerns taken seriously and acted upon.
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.
For more information on working with us and our recruitment process, please visit justice.vic.gov.au/careers
We’re proud of the important work we do across Victoria. Want to be part of it?
- Utilise your ability to plan and facilitate programs at Corrections Victoria within Hopkins Correctional Centre
- An Ongoing, Full-Time opportunity to work with a high-performing and passionate team in the Victorian Public Service
- VPS Grade 3: $79,122 - $96,073 plus superannuation.
About the Business Unit:
The Department of Justice and Community Safety seeks to reduce an offender's risk of re-offending by providing access to interventions that may address violence propensity, general offending behaviour, motivation to change, maintaining change, emotion management, reintegration, and other offence-related topics.
Hopkins Correctional Centre (HCC) is a medium security prison located at Ararat for prisoners with protection requirements including both sentenced and unsentenced (remand) prisoners.
About the Role:
The Remand Programs Facilitator is part of the Vocational Services Team at HCC.
Some of your duties will include:
- Coordinating and facilitating the delivery of the suite of Remand Programs at the prison location, both individually and in conjunction with service delivery providers, including co-facilitation with stakeholders and partners
- Conducting assessments to identify and respond to the transitional needs of the people in our care
- Establishing and maintaining appropriate data collection and monitoring processes for program delivery that includes referrals, scheduling, program attendance records and adherence to the remand service delivery model.
To learn more about this role before applying, please read the attached position description.
About You:
As our ideal candidate, you will possess:
- Experience in facilitation of psycho-educational programs to individuals and groups
- Experience in and/or understanding of working within a correctional environment
- Demonstrated understanding of transition and reintegration issues and needs of prisoners
Qualifications/Requirements:
- Expertise in programs and service delivery/coordination within a correctional environment is highly desirable.
To learn more about the Technical Expertise you will require before applying, please read the attached position description.
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 reference checks, national police checks and misconduct screening. Dependant on the role, other checks may include VicRoads checks, drivers licence checks, medical checks, Working with Children Checks, and Declaration of Private Interests (for executive and responsible officer roles).
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 yo ung 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.
Applications close Sunday 24 August 2025 at 11.59pm
Posted
8 August 2025
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