About This Role
* Manage a team of custodial and non‐custodial officers delivering a range of correctional services.
* Ongoing, Full‐time opportunity.
* COG grade 4 - $107,737 - $131,457 plus superannuation.
The Department of Justice and Community Safety is seeking an Operations Manager to provide a critical role at Barwon Prison.
About The Business Unit
HM Prison Barwon is a maximum‐security prison located 6km north‐west of Lara, 20km from the centre of Geelong and about 70km from Melbourne and is part of the Barwon South‐West Regional structure. It is Victoria's major maximum‐security prison for sentenced male prisoners. The prison officially opened in January 1990 and currently houses up to 416 men in custody, including high security, long term management, protection (including specialist protection), general mainstream (maximum security) and medium security prisoners.
About The Role
The Operations Manager will be responsible for managing a team of custodial and non‐custodial officers delivering a range of correctional services. A good understanding of contemporary prisoner management and offender services practices is needed to ensure that prisoners are managed, and programs are provided consistent with Corrections Victoria's policies, procedures, and priorities. The role also involves ensuring the prison's 'Cultural Diversity Action Plan' is implemented and that policies and procedures are followed. The Manager will coordinate information and services across the prison, develop and implement new policies, and address issues concerning the prison, prisoners, and staff.
Some of Your Duties Will Include
* Provide leadership to staff, promoting the prison's vision and manage staff in ways that reflect that vision.
* Develop, manage, and ensure the quality of the delivery of custodial processes including offender management, movement control, operation of security equipment, reception and discharge, escorts, visitors and visits, urinalysis, searching, security procedures, disciplinary issues and hearings, and review and assessment.
* Ensure delivery of custodial services and integrate this delivery with education, industry, clinical services and good lives reintegration services.
About You
* Demonstrated commitment to working with staff, prisoners and other service providers in the delivery of an integrated, whole‐of‐prison program approach to reducing re‐offending.
* Demonstrated experience and skill in areas relevant to correctional delivery, offender management and/or offender treatment.
Qualifications and Requirements
The successful applicant will be required to complete Prison Officer Pre‐Service Training on commencement if not previously completed. A Pre‐Employment Health Assessment will be required for external candidates and non‐custodial staff.
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.
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