Department of Justice and Community Safety Employee Reviews

What is the best part of working at the company?Commitment to interaction and interpersonal skills staff and clients .What is the most stressful part about working at the company?Lower staff level due health safety compensation.What is the work environment and culture like at the company?Unsafe due lack of training resulting in lack people skill management overall consistent with current mental health issues .What is a typical day like for you at the company?Insecure unsafe at times . Due to low staff levels ,

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Challenging role.

Case Manager (Former Employee) - Broadmeadows VIC - 13 February 2018

Being a case manager is definitely not for everyone as it is a very challenging role but has its benefits. You can see the positives impact you are having in peoples life.

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Department of Justice and Community Safety insights

Based on 8 survey responses

What people like

Clear sense of purpose
Feeling of personal appreciation
Ability to learn new things

Areas for improvement

Support from manager
Sense of belonging
General feeling of work happiness

Difficult work environment within a maximum security correctional facility

Justice Officer (VPS Grade 2) (Former Employee) - Lara VIC - 21 June 2017

Have spent previous two and a half years working in the Stores & Records wing of the Barwon Prison being a maximum security correctional facility. My position as a VPS2 employee offers little in the way of professional development and advancement. The work I performed in this role was onerous, labour intensive and not appropriately rewarded in respect of salary and conditions

Pros

Job Security

Cons

Long hours with little opportunity of professional development & advancement

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Tough working conditions

Casual Youth Justice Worker (Current Employee) - Parkville VIC - 13 June 2017

Long 12 hour shifts with only an hour lunch break, you could possibly work 8 hours before getting your lunch break. Very little room for growth and personal development. Poor work culture with lots of employees off on stress leave or with work related injuries.

Pros

penalties for working weekends

Cons

long hours poor pay and bad management

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do not work there

Senior Business Analyst (Former Employee) - Carlton VIC - 2 January 2017

Use to be a good place as had a great PMO team, but the managers who put the team in place all left and there is now no competent people running the PMO. Its not a happy environment anymore. The business also distrust their IT people due to historical issues from previous failed projects. Its a constant battle.

Pros

great carlton location

Cons

management, difficult stakeholders to all projects

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Fast paced environment

EMV - Executive Assistant to Commissioner (Current Employee) - Melbourne City Centre VIC - 22 November 2016

Very fast paced environment, you are never bored and the work is high level and never dull. The culture is great and very inspiriing

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Best Job I have ever had

Team Leader Records and Property (Current Employee) - Deer Park VIC - 10 February 2016

Very hard to leave such a great working environment. I met great some lovely people, and the benefits and flexibility were great.

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Prison Officer

PRISON OFFICER (Former Employee) - Melbourne city - 19 October 2015

Working with prisoners and providing the facility to rehabilitate themselves. Providing a stable routine and assisting other staff in providing security and good order of the facility.

Pros

Governmenbt employment

Cons

Shift work

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High-stress, busy, but friendly and warm environment.

Community Corrections Officer (Current Employee) - Frankston, VIC - 5 October 2015

Working as a Community Corrections Officer has it's ups and downs. I enjoy the client facing aspect of the role, and my favourite part about this role is the difference I have been able to make for people who are in the wrong path of life when they are given their orders. I enjoy watching the change in the clients and seeing the development with their situations, lives, and the progression of their orders. The most difficult part of the role would be handling clients who do not believe they are meant to be on an order and protest any attempts to assist them. The people I work with are wonderful and friendly, despite the high levels of stress that comes with a role such as this. The entire office makes it easy to learn and feel comfortable to ask any questions. A typical day would involve scheduling appointments for client supervision and reporting, a lot of e-mailing correspondence with various business units and health care professionals, meeting client needs where possible and seeing clients for various reasons, among other tasks.

Pros

Making a positive impact on difficult situations for a variety of people.

Cons

Highly stressful role.

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Good Team atmosphere

Community Corrections Officer (Former Employee) - Wangaratta, VIC - 8 June 2015

- Requires more manning and pay. The staff present at the location I worked was positive and upbeat and got on with an impossible caseload with what they had to use.

Pros

Location to family home, day shift only.

Cons

The huge caseloads and walkin cliental

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Prison Officer (Current Employee) - Melbourne, VIC - 1 September 2014

A typical day at work for me would be processing stake holders into the prison or controlling traffic in and out of prison , l never stop learning , l understand management s job is to save money as it is a government job. the hardest part of the job would be dealing with management , the most enjoyable part of my job is the people l work with .