Careers at DCJ

Shabnam, Caseworker: I'm passionate about working with families to resolve any issues that come about for them. So that we can ensure the children are safe.

Phil, Caseworker: I support Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal carers to look after children. I'm very passionate about giving an opportunity for a family or Aboriginal kids to progress.

Zevart, Caseworker: Having a certain understanding of children growing up in different countries and the hardships that they experience, led me to have a passion towards my work. It allows me to use my culture within my role to work with families. I love seeing children smile.

Phil, Caseworker: Success isn't given to you on a silver plater or anything like that. It's what you gather in your life's journey and I'm very, very lucky.

(Group of Correctional Officers interacting outside a correctional centre. Title 'We asked correctional officers what do you like most about your job?' appears on screen.)

Matt, Senior Correctional Officer: What I like best about my job is giving the inmates skills to help them reintegrate back into society. 

(Matt supervising inmates in their work-related activities within a correctional centre.)   

Claire, Correctional Officer: We see women come in and we see them leave and pick their lives up and make the most of it. They learn tools in here through programs that equips them for life on the outside which can be really great to watch.

(Female inmates using tools to build light fittings in their work-related activities within a correctional centre.)

Claire: The camaraderie when you get into the facility is really excellent, we call each other blue and we have each other's backs all the time. 

(Claire interacting with a group of Correctional Officers within a correctional centre.)

Claire: If you considering joining Corrective Services, I think definitely give it a go it's going to be a really rewarding job and the conditions are really great. 

(Claire speaking outside the gates of a correctional centre.)

[Opening music]

(Visual description: Two youth officer ladies and one woman walk along a footpath inside a correctional facility. Title appears Why is youth Justice a great place to work?) 

Ead, Youth Officer says: I joined Youth Justice to have an opportunity to work with young men. As a proud Lebanese Muslim man, I want to be a mentor for our youth and if I can be a positive role model in their life and make a difference and that's fulfilling for me.

(Visual description: A man in a youth officer uniform stands and talks with a young teenager and then walks down a footpath with the teenager. The man in uniform stands on his own and talks directly to the camera.) 

Antony, Youth Officer says: I joined Youth Justice 10 years ago. What I like most about working in Youth Justice is being able to have young people come in and seeing the change in them, watching them grow into young men

(Visual description: A man in a youth officer uniform is looking at the camera and talking.) 

Alana, Youth Officer says: I wanted to become a youth officer because I wanted to help young people see that there is light at the end of the tunnel. We make mistakes, but mistakes can be turned around and we can learn from them.

(Visual description: A woman in a youth officer uniform stands looking at the camera and talking.)

Rab, Youth Officer says: I love working at Youth Justice. I've worked across many different fields in the community sector.

(Visual description: An Aboriginal man in a youth officer uniform sits on a log in the garden talking to the camera.)

Rab says: Having access to these young Aboriginal guys that need Aboriginal mentors, specifically male mentors as well.

(Visual description: A group of young men walk into a garden and sit around in a semi circle talking to each other.)

Rab says: Working in the centers and Youth Justice gives us the opportunity to do that here at Youth Justice.

(Visual description: A group of men in traditional Aboriginal dress perform a corroboree. )

Antony says: Here at Youth Justice, I like letting the young people know that we'll never give up on them. 

(Visual description: A man in a youth officer uniform stands talking to the camera.) 

Ead says: I've got the best job in the world.

(Visual description: Two men dressed in youth officer uniforms laugh with each other.) 

[Music ends. NSW Governement logo appears]