**Work with a team committed to supporting positive outcomes**:
- ** Make a difference every day**:
- ** Full time permanent position in Acacia, Wooroloo WA**
**About you**
You value diversity and difference, have a high level of cultural sensitivity and demonstrate exceptional moral values in everything you do.
Experienced working with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, you would have mutual respect from their communities and Industry partners within Western Australia.
You are excited by the challenges of working within a large and complex environment and hold knowledge of trauma informed care principles to drive effective change which provides positive outcomes.
**About the role**
Acacia Prison is one of the largest prisons in Australia, accommodating 1,525 male medium-security prisoners located in Wooroloo, WA: about an hour drive from Perth.
Acacia has a focus on providing prisoners with educational, training and work opportunities that improve their chances of sustainable employment on release into the community.
The Aboriginal Liaison Officer will promote and increase diversity knowledge, provide cultural support, and adopt a collaborative and integrated approach to the Acacia Safer Custody Function.
The role will contribute to embedding Serco's key operating principles across the facility:
- Promoting the rehabilitation and reintegration of Prisoners
- Ensuring the safety and security of Prisoners and the community
- Providing a decent and respectful environment to staff, Prisoners and visitors.
- To be successful in this role, you will:_
- Respect for Aboriginal cultural connections, contemporary beliefs, values and practices together with cultural association and/or knowledge and understanding of the WA Aboriginal people and communities.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the contemporary issues facing Aboriginal Australians and the impacts these issues have on Aboriginal Australian societies and culture.
- Demonstrate the highest levels of personal and professional integrity and ethical behaviour
- Tertiary qualifications in Social Work, Counselling, Social Sciences and / or relevant industry experience and / or active member of the Aboriginal Community
- Experience in a similar role, ideally in a similar institutional environment involving complex human behaviour
- Proven experience in dealing with Aboriginal Communities of Western Australia, including a reflection of mutual respect from these communities.
This is a position of trust and responsibility and to support this we will conduct a thorough probity assessment, which includes a national police check as an essential selection component for this role.
**Serco and Proud**
At Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, but everyone also has an important role to play from caring for vulnerable people to managing complex public services. We are a team of 60,000+ globally and 16,000+ in Asia Pacific responsible for delivering essential public services in areas including defence, justice, immigration, healthcare, facilities management and citizen services.
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