As a Paralegal Officer you will: - Provide administrative support to child safety officers and prepare court documents (e.g. affidavits), in consultation with and under the direction of the child safety officer and/or senior team leader.- Prepare court documents that demonstrate high level written communication skills, are well structured, objective, clear, concise and meet the required standards of both the department and the court.- Competently access, understand and use information held in departmental information systems, in preparing affidavits and other court documents to support applications for child protection orders.- Provide administrative support to senior team leaders in completing requests for information required for preparing affidavits to support applications for child protection orders.- Establish and maintain collaborative relationships with child safety officers and senior team leaders to ensure that court documents adequately address legislative requirements.- Work as part of a team to support child safety officers to meet rapidly changing priorities and ensure deadlines are met.- Identify and promptly communicate key issues to the senior team leader that may impact on meeting designated tasks.- Participate and contribute productively as a team member to form culturally appropriate, professional working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.- Participate and contribute to a culture of continuous learning, training and professional development to ensure practice knowledge and skills are contemporary and evidence based.- Contribute to continuous quality improvement strategies. Applications to remain current for 12 months.
