• Utilise your training expertise to provide support and advice to Family Violence and Mental Health Branch of Department of Justice and Community Safety
• Fixed-Term, Full-Time opportunity until 30/06/2024 to work with a high-performing and passionate team in the Victorian Public Service
• VPS Grade 4: $91,418-$103,725 plus superannuation

About Us

The Family Violence Practice Leadership team (within the Family Violence and Mental Health Branch) drives family violence practice consistency and excellence within the Department of Justice and Community Safety (DJCS) and collaboratively across the Victorian Government. Key priorities for family violence reform are identified by the Royal Commission into Family Violence and the 10 Year Family Violence Action Plan.

The Training Officer position will be part of this team, led by the Family Violence Practice Manager. The role will do critical work to deliver high-quality training on family violence, including promoting family violence awareness, practice uplift, professional development, and culture change across DJCS. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with a genuine passion to make a difference and help reduce rates of family violence in society.

Please contact us directly to discuss if diverse past work or life experience may make you suitable to apply for this role.

What does a Training Officer do?

The Training Officer will primarily be engaged in:

• delivering training modules on family violence to DJCS staff, with a focus on training staff who work in the adult custodial environment
• contributing to writing and developing training modules
• working closely with other trainers in the team and receiving substantial support from the team to learn the training modules and practice their delivery.

The position will work across all divisions of DJCS in collaboration with both internal and external stakeholders and will require travel.

What skills should a Training Officer have?

The Training Officer should be able to:

• Demonstrate experience in facilitating engaging and informative training sessions to adult learners
• Demonstrate an understanding of family violence dynamics, theory, and best practice approaches, as well as familiarity with the Victorian family violence sector and current reform work
• Show an understanding of, or have experience within custodial environments (desirable)
• A strong ability to build a supportive and cooperative team environment and engage other teams to share information in order to understand or respond to issues
• A strong ability to prepare and deliver logical sequential and succinct presentations, and use media appropriate to the audience to develop an understanding of the topic
• A strong ability to provide frank and honest feedback/advice to others, as well as listening when ideas are challenged, and seek to understand the nature of criticism and respond constructively.

Qualifications:

• A Certificate IV in work-place training and assessment is desirable
• A qualification in the fields of social and community services, criminal justice, health and human services or similar is preferred.

What's in it for you?

At the Department of Justice and Community Safety, we provide every person with the means to achieve their potential through ongoing learning and development opportunities in a diverse, equitable and supportive environment.

We look for people who are prepared to do their very best in line with our values and behaviours. Our values shape and influence how we recruit, train and develop our staff and build relationships with stakeholders.

We will also provide you with professional development opportunities, an employee assistance program, access to job opportunities across the Victorian Government, salary packaging and much more.

How to Apply

Please click the Apply Now button at the bottom of this advertisement. Applications should include a resume and covering letter outlining your relevant skills and experience for the position. 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 reference checks, national police checks and misconduct screening. Dependant on the role, other checks may include VicRoads checks, drivers licence checks, medical checks, Working with Children Checks, and Declaration of Private Interests (for executive and responsible officer roles).

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.

FOR INTERNAL VPS EMPLOYEES:

• For this particular vacancy, priority consideration applies to Victorian Public Service (VPS) and select employees of the Victorian Public Sector who apply through the Jobs Skills Exchange (JSE) jobs board platform.
• For all VPS employees, due to the new Jobs Skills Exchange (JSE) policy, please apply through the JSE to be eligible to be considered for this position in the first round.

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.