Professional roles

About professional roles

The Department of Communities and Justice offers a variety of career paths for people in professional roles from entry level to executive (Public Service Senior Executive).

Professional roles require reference checks on all candidates who progress to pre-employment screening. Offers of employment will not be made until all pre-employment screening checks are completed. Some roles may also require additional checks/clearances, which may include:

• National criminal history check or fingerprint check
• Working With Children Check (WWCC) and other checks relating to working with children
• Offender association checks
• Conduct and performance checks (for existing public service employees)
• Eligibility to work in Australia
• Qualification checks.

Divisions

Professional roles are spread across all divisions and locations of the Department of Communities and Justice.

• Courts, Tribunals and Service Delivery
• Corrective Services NSW
• Child Protection and Permanency, District and Youth Justice Services
• Housing, Disability and District Services and Emergency Management
• Law Reform and Legal Services
• Strategy, Policy and Commissioning
• Corporate Services 
  • Shared Services, & Customer Experience
    
  • Anti-Slavery Commission
  • Marketing and Communications
  • Transforming Aboriginal Outcomes/AES
  • Audit Risk and Compliance 
  • Office of the Secretary
  • Human Resources 
  • Finance & Procurement
  • Infrastructure and Assets
  • Information & Digital Services
  • Disaster Welfare.