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Official Visitor - Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander (Identified)


Critical Incident Review and Inspections Group; Professional Standards and Governance Command; Workforce Culture Integrity and Capability; QLD-wide

Official Visitors perform a vital role in helping to address prisoner complaints and ensure prisoner rights are protected.

Job details

Position status Contract
Position type Non Standard Hours
Occupational group Justice & Legal
Classification Not applicable
Workplace Location Brisbane Inner City,Brisbane - North,Brisbane - South,Brisbane - East,Brisbane - West,North West Qld,Cairns region,Flexible,Logan - Beaudesert,Toowoomba region,Wide Bay,Darling Downs - Maranoa,Moreton Bay - North,Moreton Bay - South,Far North Qld,Townsville region,Mackay region,Rockhampton region,Gold Coast,Sunshine Coast,Ipswich region,Central West Qld,South West Qld,Other - Outside Qld
Job ad reference QLD/592772CAP/24
Closing date 24-Mar-2025
Job duration Contract 3 years (with possibility of extension)
Contact person Johanna Smith
Contact details Mobile: 0438 683 652
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Official Visitors - or OVs - meet with prisoners to hear and follow up on prisoner complaints. Sometimes, they might need to follow up information with centre staff to find more information to decide on the outcome of the complaint. After considering both sides of a situation, OVs may make a recommendation to prisoners or QCS about how to resolve the issue.

Official Visitors are also required to perform other review tasks as required under the Corrective Services Act 2006. This may include:

  • reviewing a decision to make a Consecutive Safety Order;
  • reviewing a decision to place a prisoner on a Maximum Security Order;
  • overseeing requests from Police to remove a prisoner from a centre for questioning.

Official Visitors are rostered to attend an adult correctional centre at least once per month. While Official Visitors are appointed and supervised by QCS, OVs provide an independent opinion on QCS decisions. They are paid per completed shift.

Official Visitors are not advocates for prisoners nor QCS. They act impartially. For this reason, current employees of the Queensland Government or public service are ineligible for appointment.

Applications to remain current for 12 months.

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Continuous Applicant Pool closing Monday, 24th March 2025

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Last updated
2 May 2023

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