Paralegal Officer, Families, Seniors, Disability Services and Child Safety
vor 1 Tag
Paralegal Officer, Families, Seniors, Disability Services and Child Safety Families, Seniors, Disability Services and Child Safety – Cairns QLD Working in child safety involves attending high-risk calls and experiencing confronting situations. Resilience and a strong awareness of self, along with good self-care practices, are essential. You will work with diverse children and families facing many different challenges. The role often includes handling high-risk situations such as domestic and family violence, complex mental health issues, substance use, and suicide. Your contribution We are seeking a paralegal officer to prepare court documents (eg. affidavits) and provide support and administrative assistance to child safety officers in preparing for court processes. This includes accessing departmental information systems and accurately extracting key information for use in court material. Paralegal officers are based in Child Safety Service Centres and provide support to child safety officers across the region. Paralegal officers may be required to travel between Child Safety Service Centres. Your responsibilities Follow guidelines and administrative processes in relation to records management, finance and other administrative tasks that are consistent with departmental policies, procedures and departmental objectives. Provide administrative support to child safety officers and prepare court documents (eg. affidavits), in consultation with and under the direction of the child safety officer and/or senior team leader. Prepare court documents that demonstrate high level written communication skills, are well structured, objective, clear, concise and meet the required standards of both the department and the court. Competently access, understand and use information held in departmental information systems, in preparing affidavits and other court documents to support applications for child protection orders. Provide administrative support to senior team leaders in completing requests for information required for applications for child protection orders. Establish and maintain collaborative relationships with departmental legal officers to ensure that court documents adequately address legislative requirements. Work as part of a team to support child safety officers to meet rapidly changing priorities and ensure deadlines are met. Identify and promptly communicate key issues to the senior team leader that may impact on meeting designated tasks. Participate and contribute productively as a team member to form culturally appropriate, professional working relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Participate and contribute to a culture of continuous learning, training and professional development to ensure practice knowledge and skills are contemporary and evidence-based. Contribute to continuous quality improvement strategies. Your mandatory requirements Possession of or able to obtain a blue card administered by the Queensland Public Safety Business Agency. Travel is a requirement of this position, therefore, it is a requirement that the applicant hold a current “C” Class Drivers licence. Applications to remain current for 12 months. #J-18808-Ljbffr
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Paralegal Officer – Child Safety
vor 1 Tag
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Court Liaison Officer — Youth Justice
vor 1 Tag
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vor 3 Wochen
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vor 3 Wochen
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