Assistant Director Intervention & Reintegration Services (355069) - Tasmania Prison Service

The Department of Justice has a number of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion strategies in place, and our recruitment practices aim to facilitate full participation from all population cohorts. We encourage applications from Indigenous Australians, people living with disability, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds and faiths, mature age workers and LGBTIQA+ people.

The Department of Justice supports reasonable adjustment requests in any stage of the assessment process to remove barriers and facilitate full participation in all aspects of employment for applicants with disability. If you have individual requirements that need to be accommodated in order to participate in an interview or recruitment activity, please inform TPS Recruiting at TPSRecruiting@justice.tas.gov.au as soon as possible. 

Details of Appointment

This role is a permanent, day work position working 73.50 hours per fortnight. We are a diverse and inclusive workplace and understand the importance of flexible working arrangements - talk to us about how this could work for you.

*Applicants should note that, for a period of twelve months from the date of publication, this selection process may be used to fill subsequent or similar full time, part time and/or casual vacancies.

Benefits

Salary of $140,703 to $150,200 pa. starting salary negotiable within range subject to experience in a similar role. Annual salary increases within this range in accordance with the Tasmanian State Service Award and Public Service Union Wages Agreement.

In addition to the salary: 

• 11.5% super, access to salary sacrifice and salary packaging.
• 4 weeks annual leave per year, plus access to purchased leave, leave without pay and State Service accumulated leave scheme.
• Access to a free, confidential Employee Assistance Program and a range of other service via our dedicated Wellbeing and Support team.
• Learning, development and career progression opportunities across Tasmania.

Working Environment

Tasmania Prison Service (TPS) has prison facilities located at Risdon Vale, Hobart and Launceston in Tasmania. This position is based at Risdon Vale.

The Risdon Vale site offers a corporate working environment without the hustle and bustle of city centre offices, free on-site parking and access to the on-site staff gym (or head across the road to Risdon Brook Dam for a walk at lunch time). 

Duties

• Lead and supervise multiple teams responsible for prisoner interventions including assessment, sentence planning, case management and reintegration. This includes the oversight of staff skill development and human resource management.
• Provide clinical oversight and responsibility for all accommodation areas that provide intervention and reintegration opportunities for prisoners. These are MHWP, Health services, Special Needs units, Units delivering intervention programs and operating as therapeutic communities.
• Manage prisoner sentence planning, assessments, planning and reintegration processes. This includes the provision of advice about the ongoing case management and reintegration of prisoners with a Risk Needs Responsivity and strengths based framework and/or other models/frameworks as adopted by the department.
• Develop and implement appropriate audit, quality assurance and staff development models that assure a high level of accuracy in the assessment, sentence planning and case management of inmates.
• Continue the development and implementation of appropriate auditing and quality assurance systems that ensure inmate leave from detention is in line with structured work, education or reintegration planning.
• Develop and implement appropriate models to evaluate sentence management loads and intervention outcomes.
• Have oversight of case conferences, liaise with other prison service staff and relevant agencies about inmate assessment, case management and reintegration.
• Foster a multidisciplinary approach to achieving through care to meet prisoner’s needs through collaboration with other government and non-government agencies.
• Provide reports and audits as required by Prison Service policies and procedures, and contribute to the development of these policies and procedures.

Pre-employment Checks

The Head of State Service has determined that the person nominated for this vacancy is to satisfy a pre-employment check before taking up the appointment, promotion or transfer.

The following checks are to be conducted:

1. Pre-employment checks

• Arson and fire setting
• Violent crimes and crimes against the person
• Sex-related offences
• Drug and alcohol related offences
• Crimes involving dishonesty
• Crimes involvi