Aboriginal Senior Overseer – Creative Work Centre – Bathurst Correctional Centre
Location: Bathurst Correctional Centre
Employment type: Full-time Ongoing
Salary: $101,981 pa + Incidental Allowance + Leave Loading + Superannuation
Your Role
We are looking for a proactive and dedicated Aboriginal Senior Overseer to work within our Creative Work Centre Unit at the Bathurst Correctional Centre
What You’ll Do
Join an organisation with a rich history where your trade experience is valued. Senior Overseers are trade qualified Correctional Officers with the essential role of using your trade skills to work with and supervise inmates and other staff to undertake programmed and reactive maintenance tasks essential to keep the correctional centre operational.
Provide leadership and mentoring to Overseers, and supervise and develop inmates through managing, coaching, instructing, and encouraging them, as members of a team, in order that they may improve their work skills, enhance their post-release employment prospects, and contribute productively to Business Unit objectives.
Please click here to review the role description
Qualifications Required
- Current Certificate III in Correctional Practice or capacity to complete Certificate III in Correctional Practice in accordance with specified CSNSW timeframes
- Current NSW Driver Licence and preparedness to drive a vehicle while performing the role.
- Relevant trade qualifications/Experience: Aboriginal Arts, Crafts & Cultural Studies.
- Proof of ATSI identity.
Essential Requirements
- Proven experience in Aboriginal Arts, Crafts & Cultural Studies
- Experience which demonstrates the ability to meet the key accountabilities and focus capabilities as detailed in the role description.
- Ability and willingness to work across trades as required.
- Willing to work in a team setting
- The position is open to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants only, in accordance with the Department of Justice NSW Aboriginal Employment Strategy, in accordance with Part 5 of the NSW Government Sector Employment Rules 2014.
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
- A challenging and rewarding career
- Flexible, autonomous work environment
- Competitive pay and conditions
- 4 weeks annual leave
- Training and development opportunities to build and maintain capabilities
- Health & Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programs, including access to the Fitness Passport.
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Applying for the Role
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When Applying You Will Need To Attach
- Resume (maximum 3 pages and including 2 Referees – one must be a current supervisor)
- Cover letter (maximum 2 pages) outlining how you meet the key accountabilities and focus capabilities of this role as specified in the role description (please refer to the Role Description so that you can address the highlighted capabilities)
- Copies of Trade Qualifications MUST be attached.
Applications close
11:59pm, Friday, 05 December 2025
Got a question?
For more information about the role or what it’s like to work for DCJ, please contact the hiring manager David Rickwood via
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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.
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