Prison Support Officer (Casuarina)

**Prison Support Officer**

Corrective Services

**Salary**:Level 4, $95,782
- $100,526 p.a. plus 12% Super PSCSAA 2024

**Position number**:015371

**Work type**: Permanent
- Full Time

**Location**:Casuarina Prison

**Closing date**:2026-04-08 4:30 PM (YYYY-MM-DD)

**This is a permanent, full time vacancy.**

**Want to join a team that makes a difference? If you have experience supervising teams and working with Aboriginal people and communities, we would love for you to join our team!**

**About Justice**

When you join the Department of Justice, you become part of a people-focused organisation, working hard to make our community a fairer and safer place to live. We offer many different employment opportunities in locations around Western Australia. You will have a chance to make a real difference to your local communities and to the lives of those you work with.

**About the role**

Prison Support Officers (PSO) contribute to the overall suicide and self-harm prevention and intervention strategy in custodial settings by providing ongoing support to prisoners at risk. They are also responsible for the management and performance of the Peer Support program, which is a well-established suicide prevention strategy, aimed at the early identification and support of prisoners at risk.

**Eligibility**

To be eligible for appointment to permanent positions in the West Australian Public Sector you must be an Australian citizen or have permanent resident status in Australia.

**Benefits and opportunities**
- Health and wellbeing programs including Fitness passport providing a wide range of gym, pool, and fitness centre discounts available for employees and their families.
- 4 weeks paid annual leave
- 3 days additional public sector holidays
- 15 days personal leave per annum
- Long service leave available after 7 years of continuous service
- Check out the attached Applicant Information Pack to find out other perks of working for Justice.

**Application process**

**How to apply**

**We require you to submit**:

- A comprehensive Resume / Curriculum Vitae, that clearly outlines your transferable skills, experience and highlights your key achievements.
- A statement no more than two (2) pages addressing your suitability for the role in the context of the following **Job-Related Requirements**. **Please provide examples to support your claims**.
- Shapes and Manages Strategy
- Achieve Results
- Builds Productive Relationships
- Contact details of two work related referees.

All remaining **Job-Related Requirements** and **Role Specific Criteria** will be assessed at a later stage in the recruitment process.

**Subsequent Vacancies**

Applicants found suitable but not recommended for this vacancy, may be considered for subsequent similar vacancies in the Department of Justice for a period of twelve (12) months, in accordance with _Part 5 (General Appointment) of the Commissioner's Instructions No. 2: Filling a Public Sector Vacancy _and _Commissioner’s Instructions and No. 39: Interim Arrangements to Fill Public Sector Vacancies_. Permanent, fixed term, full time and part time appointments may be offered during this period.

**For further job-related information**

If you would like further information regarding the vacancy please contact **Lisa Watene, Prison Support Service Manager** on **(08)** **9334 6078** for a confidential discussion.

**Equity and Diversity**

The Department of Justice is committed to building a workplace culture that values diversity and inclusion. We actively promote the employment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, youth, people of diverse sexualities and genders, women, culturally and linguistically diverse people, and other diversity groups.

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The Department of Justice has introduced a smoke-free policy, which has been fully implemented across all women’s prisons and the Corrective Services Academy, with all other prison sites to follow over the next 12-18 months. Apply on Kit Job: kitjobau.com/job/3qmdyu