• Manage high level, day-to-day operational needs of a prison.
• 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 Melbourne Assessment Prison.

About the Business Unit

The Melbourne Assessment Prison (MAP) is a maximum-security correctional facility located on the fringe of the Melbourne CBD. The Prison is the State's main reception prison, receiving prisoners directly from the Courts and Police and provides assessment and orientation services for all male prisoners received into the system. The MAP also operates the Melbourne County Court, Supreme Court and Supreme Court Appeals custody facilities, located on the corners of William and Lonsdale Streets in the CBD.

These facilities manage both male and female prisoners of all security ratings, operating Monday to Friday. The location also manages the St Vincent's Hospital holding cells, providing custodial liaison and coordination of all prisoner escorts attending the hospital for medical outpatient appointments from prison locations across the State. MAP also looks after the security function at the Adult Parole Board and the Post Sentence Authority located at 50 Franklin Street West Melbourne.

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 for which the incumbent will require superior leadership skills. A good understanding of contemporary prisoner management and offender services practices are needed to ensure that prisoners are managed, and programs are provided consistent with Corrections Victoria's policies, procedures, and priorities.

This role will also be responsible for overseeing the fruition of the prison's ‘Cultural Diversity Action Plan'. The department's Cultural Diversity Plan Framework 2019-22 aims to ensure that the department's key services are accessible to individuals and communities from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. The plan builds on work undertaken through the previous cultural diversity plans.

Some of your duties will include:

• Provide leadership to staff, promoting the prison's vision and managing 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 service.

To learn more about this role before applying, please read the attached position description.

About you

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• 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/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.

How to Apply

Please click the Apply button on this advertisement. Applications should include a resume and covering letter. Attachments can be uploaded in .doc, .docx, .pdf, .txt or .rtf formats.

The successful candidate will be required to undergo pre-employment checks which may include a Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check (NCCHC) and misconduct screening.

If you require adjustments to the recruitment and selection process, or require an alternative format to any of the application material, please don't hesitate to get in touch with the contact person listed on this ad.

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.