Youth Officer
Cobham Youth Justice Centre – St Marys
Location:Cobham Youth Justice Centre -St Marys
Employment type Casual and unlock opportunities for temporary and ongoing roles
Salary: $36.20 per hour + loading (casual). Temporary and Ongoing - $71,777 – $80,129 + super + allowances
Shift work required.
This role involves shift work across a 24/7 roster, including weekends and public holidays.
Training: Mandatory5 weeks of full-time Induction Training & Assessment Program (ITAP) commence August 2026
Looking for a career where your life experience, resilience, and interpersonal skills are genuinely valued?
Bring your experience to a role that makes a meaningful impact. This opportunity is well suited to professionals with practical expertise and the credibility to engage effectively with young people in complex circumstances
Your role
As a Youth Officer, you’ll play a key role in guiding young people in custody toward better choices and brighter futures. Whether your background is in parenting, trades, community work, customer service, or another people-focused field, your ability to communicate, stay calm under pressure, and build trust can make a real impact.
This is more than a job—it’s an opportunity to contribute to safer communities while supporting young people to turn their lives around
What you’ll do
You’ll work within a structured, secure environment supporting young people to develop life skills, improve behaviour, and prepare for reintegration into the community.
Working alongside psychologists, caseworkers, and other professionals, you will:
You’ll receive five weeks of paid, full-time training to ensure you feel confident and prepared before starting in the Centre
What we’re looking for
We welcome applicants from a wide range of backgrounds—especially those with strong life experience and a genuine desire to make a difference.
You may be a great fit if you bring:
Requirements
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are strongly encouraged to apply.
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Working for the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) provides lots of opportunities to make a real difference. We collaborate with other agencies and community partners, to improve lives and realise the potential of children, adults, families and communities. We're focused on breaking, rather than managing, disadvantage. It’s work that really matters.
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Applications close21 June 2026 at 11:00pm AEST.
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For more information about the role, application process, or recruitment adjustments, please contact Merina Maharjan on 0473 430 764 or careers@dcj.nsw.gov.au
Visit Recruitment adjustments on the DCJ website to learn more.
Inclusion and Diversity lies at the heart of how we recruit
We continue to hire great people with a wide variety of skills, experience and backgrounds. This includes people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, women, people identifying as LGBTIQ+, culturally and linguistically diverse people, carers and other diversity groups.
To find out what DCJ are doing to build an inclusive and diverse workforce, visit Inclusion and diversity on the DCJ website
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