Director Through Care and Support Services

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Job description

Agency Department of the Attorney-General and Work unit Offender Rehabilitation and Engagement

Justice

Job title Director Through Care and Support Services Designation Senior Administrative Officer 2

Job type Full time Duration Fixed to 31/03/2025

Salary $148,302 - $161,638 Location Alice Springs, Darwin

Position number 28821 RTF 304174 Closing 12/0+/2024

Contact officer Natalie Walker on 08 8+35 75+0 or natalie.walker@nt.gov.au

About the agency https://justice.nt.gov.au/

Apply online https://jobs.nt.gov.au/Home/JobDetails?rtfId=304174

APPLICATIONS MUST INCLUDE A ONE-PAGE SUMMARY ABOUT YOU, A DETAILED RESUME AND COPIES OF YOUR TERTIARY

QUALIFICATIONS.

Information for applicants – inclusion and diversity and Special Measures recruitment plans

The NTPS values diversity. The NTPS encourages people from all diversity groups to apply for vacancies and accommodates people with

disability by making reasonable workplace adjustments. If you require an adjustment for the recruitment process or job, please discuss

this with the contact officer. For more information about applying for this position and the merit process, go to the OCPE website.

Aboriginal applicants will be granted priority consideration for this vacancy. For more information on Special Measures plans, go to the

OCPE website.

Primary objective

As a member of the Offender Rehabilitation and Engagement Directorate ensure the delivery of core business outcomes through the

provision of offender management services, including offender programs, rehabilitation and reintegration, sentence management, health

and welfare, education and vocational training and external support services.

Key duties and responsibilities

1. Manage a multi-disciplinary team to effectively implement all departmental offender management policies, programs and services

within the appropriate legal, security and risk management framework.

2. Develop and maintain an effective and seamless interface between offender management and other operational support areas in

particular Vocational Education and Prisoner Industries.

3. Provide operational advice and actively participate in the development of departmental policies relating to the management of

offenders.

4. Develop and maintain a through care framework for effective Sentence Planning and Reintegration of prisoners within the

Correctional environment.

5. Ensure that the implementation of policies and programs within the centre is undertaken in a way that recognises and addresses the

needs of diverse cultural groups represented in the offender population and is in accordance with departmental policy.

6. Oversight and ensure the effective delivery and maintenance of offence specific programmes.

7. Establish external networks within government and non-government organisations that support the Northern Territory Correctional

Services offender management framework.

Selection criteria

Essential

1. Demonstrated expertise in leading and managing a multi-disciplinary team and building and maintaining successful working

relationships, to achieve integrated outcomes and the capacity to apply these within a correctional environment.

2. Demonstrated understanding of contemporary theory and best practice in respect of offender program management and services,

including the preparation and planning of complex reports and submissions and negotiation of recommendations.

3. Demonstrated understanding, or ability to rapidly acquire an understanding, of the complexities of a correctional environment and

the implications for the day to day management of offenders whilst providing high quality offender programs and services.

4. Demonstrated ability to manage change and implement best practice policies, systems and standards including the ability to set

priorities, resolve conflict and manage risk within allocated resources.

5. Demonstrated high level of consultation n, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills, including high level oral and written

communication skills, and a demonstrated ability to interact as an effective management team member and liaise with people from

diverse cultural backgrounds.

6. Demonstrated experience in strategic planning processes and the ability to analyse, interpret and implement agency strategic plans.

Desirable

1. Relevant qualifications (e.g. Degree in Psychology/Criminology, Social Work, Community Services, Community).

2. Demonstrated sound understanding of, or experience working within, the criminal justice system, in the delivery of programs to

offenders.

Further information

The preferred applicant will be required to complete a pre-employment questionnaire and the successful applicant/s will be required to

undergo a criminal history check (confirmed by fingerprints and name check) prior to commencement of employment. An adverse criminal

history will not necessarily exclude an applicant from this position. All NT Correctional Services employees are subject to random drug

and ******* testing.

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