Gladstone Child Safety Service Centre is seeking a paralegal officer to prepare court documents (eg. affidavits) and provide support and administrative assistance to child safety officers in preparing for court processes.

As a Paralegal Officer you will:

• Provide administrative support to child safety officers and prepare court documents (eg. affidavits), in consultation with and under the direction of the child safety officer and/or senior team leader.
• Prepare court documents that demonstrate high level written communication skills, are well structured, objective, clear, concise and meet the required standards of both the department and the court.
• Competently access, understand and use information held in departmental information systems, in preparing affidavits and other court documents to support applications for child protection orders.
• Provide administrative support to senior team leaders in completing requests for information required for applications for child protection orders.
• Establish and maintain collaborative relationships with departmental legal officers to ensure that court documents adequately address legislative requirements.
• Work as part of a team to support child safety officers to meet rapidly changing priorities and ensure deadlines are met.
• Identify and promptly communicate key issues to the senior team leader that may impact on meeting designated tasks.
• Participate and contribute productively as a team member to form culturally appropriate, professional working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Participate and contribute to a culture of continuous learning, training and professional development to ensure practice knowledge and skills are contemporary and evidence-based.
• Contribute to continuous quality improvement strategies.

To enable us to assess your application, please submit the following via www.smartjobs.qld.gov.au:

• Resume and minimum of 2 referees including their email addresses. At least one referee should have a thorough knowledge of your work over the past two years as your manager or supervisor.
• A statement not more than two pages, that summarises your skills, experience and achievements against the leadership competencies and duties/responsibilities of the position.

Applications to remain current for 12 months.

Job Ad Reference: QLD/666569/25

Closing Date: Tuesday, 4th November 2025