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Community Corrections Officer Profile

Community Correctional Services plays a vital role in community safety by helping to rehabilitate offenders and break the cycle of reoffending.  

Community Corrections Officers (CCOs) monitor and supervise offenders who have been sentenced by the courts to serve Community Correctional Orders or released from prison on parole by the Adult Parole Board.

Depending on the location of employment, CCO roles can be focussed on specific tasks which include all or some of the following:

• interviewing and counselling offenders, and monitoring compliance by ensuring offenders are participating in appropriate programs and specialist services
• facilitating offender attendance at educational, community work, assessment and treatment programs, including drug and alcohol counselling, anger management and relationship programs
• conducting court assessments to provide advice to assist the judiciary in making sentencing decisions
• prosecuting an offender in court or give evidence when an offender breaches the conditions of their Community Correctional Order
• visiting prisons to interview prisoners, assessing their suitability for parole and providing reports to the Adult Parole Board.

Positions for entry-level Community Corrections Officers are available state-wide in both metropolitan and regional locations and positions are advertised at locations only when a vacancy is identified.

Community Work Coordinators are responsible for overseeing the development of Community Work programs and sites where offenders are placed to complete Community Work Orders.

For further information on these positions, please go to Careers in Corrections

Training as a Community Corrections Officer

New staff to Community Correctional Services can expect to undertake a three stage induction program:

1. Pre-service exercise
2. Completion of two week orientation (at their CCS location)
3. Off job (class room) activities supported by 'on job' coaching and mentoring with a view to attaining Certificate IV Correctional Practice (Community).

It is expected that the Certificate IV Correctional Practice (Community) be completed within 18 months.