Youth Justice Worker - Nights - Parkville

Department of Justice and Community Safety VIC; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully paid training

Job summary

Department of Justice and Community Safety VIC in Parkville, Melbourne, seeks a Night Shift Youth Justice Worker. You will be frontline staff supervising overnight young people on remand or sentenced in a custodial setting, communicating via intercom and maintaining safety.

The role includes CCTV monitoring, incident response, and collaboration with health and education services. Training supports you to become a role model from day one.

Qualifications

• Citizenship or permanent residency proof (Australian citizen, PR, or NZ citizen with valid entry).
• Health and fitness assessment required.
• Driver licence is desirable.

Responsibilities

• CCTV monitoring, compliance reporting, responding to alarms and perimeter searches.
• Create a safe and secure environment for staff and young people in custodial care.
• Work directly with children and young people in custody, including regular observation.
• Redirect anti-social and challenging behaviour and respond to incidents as they occur.
• Facilitate support from health/mental health providers, educators and disability services.

Job description

Youth Justice Worker - Nights - Parkville

Department of Justice and Community Safety VIC – Parkville VIC

Want a new career challenge that could be life-changing?

Parkville youth justice precinct is located in north west Melbourne, about 5km from the CBD.

Youth justice worker (Nights) are thefrontline staffwhosupervise and support young people overnight who are on remand or sentenced to a period of imprisonment.

This is not a security job with long stretches of downtime. You will speak directly to young people throughout the night, typically through their intercom.

As a full-time youth justice worker on night shift, you will be responsible for:

CCTV monitoring,compliance reporting,responding to alarmsandperimeter searches

creating asafe and secure environmentfor both staff and young people

working directly with children and young people in a custodial environment, including regular observation

redirecting anti-social and challenging behaviour

responding to incidentsas they occur

facilitating supportfrom other services, including health and mental health providers, educators and disability organisations.

To be successful,you will be a keenproblem solverwith greatsituational awareness, but this job can be tough and attimes, your resilience will be tested.

However, by putting in the work, you will see young people make small shifts in their thinking that can have a major impacton their lives and community safety.

Our training program will set you up to be a role model from your first day.

You will receive:

8 weeks of fully paid training

a rotating fortnightly roster where you will work no more than 3 days in a row

generous penalty rates on top of your salary

personalised career development

To be considered for a youth justice worker role you must be either:

an Australian citizen – a birth certificate, citizenship certificate or current passport is required as proof of eligibility

a permanent resident of Australia

a New Zealand citizen who has entered Australia on a valid passport, or eligible to work in Australia for a period of more than six months.

You will also need to pass a health and fitness assessment. A driver licence is desirable but not mandatory.