The Adult Restorative Justice Conferencing (ARJC) team delivers restorative justice conferencing services that provide a safe and structured environment for victims, offenders, and other stakeholders to come together to address the harm that was caused by criminal behaviour. Through these conferences, the team facilitates meaningful dialogue, promotes accountability, and supports the rehabilitation of offenders while empowering victims to have their voices heard. This process focuses on healing, reducing reoffending, and strengthening community relationships by focusing on repairing harm and restoring trust.

Job details

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver high quality restorative justice services, including the conducting of interviews and restorative justice conferences, pursuant to the Dispute Resolution Centres Act 1990 and the policies and procedures of the Dispute Resolution Branch.
• Work in a highly confidential and sensitive organisational environment, including providing consistent and impartial advice to persons participating in ARJC.
• Manage an individual case load under limited supervision, making appropriate decisions, managing allocated matters in an effective and timely manner, and accurately monitoring, maintaining and reviewing records and databases.
• Exercise judgment regarding the assessment of matters and situations for suitability for conferencing, defendants ability to take responsibility for their actions, power imbalances between parties and appropriateness of requested outcomes.

Technical skills, abilities and cultural capability:

• Experience in restorative justice, the justice system or conflict resolution.
• Demonstrated interpersonal skills and the ability to engage meaningfully with individuals from a diverse range of backgrounds and lived experiences, including First Nations peoples.
• Demonstrated ability to simultaneously manage multiple cases at a time and perform associated administrative tasks, including record keeping and working with various databases and digital platforms.
• Ability to work autonomously and to proactively engage with the community to promote services.

Applications to remain current for 12 months.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

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One permanent part-time position available (36.25 hours p/f – FTE 0.5)

Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• 695512-26-Role Profile (Word, 125KB)
  
  
  695512-26-Applicant-Information-Package (Word, 358KB)