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Corrections Officers

Vacancy Number: PSNR 0042
Location: Spring Hill Corrections Facility
Contact Email Address: SHCFRecruitment@corrections.govt.nz
Contact Phone Number: (07) 826 0238
Contact Postal Address:        Department of Corrections
Spring Hill Corrections Facility
Private Bag 503
Huntly 3740
Attention: Recruitment Coordinator
 
Our focus at the Department of Corrections is on keeping communities safer. We do this by managing offenders and making sure they fulfill their sentences.
 
As a Corrections Officer your role is to ensure offenders complete their sentence. As part of this you’ll set a positive example and help create opportunities for offenders. You’ll use your excellent communication and your life skills,and work closely with your team to manage complex and sometimes challenging situations.
 
Your working environment can be challenging, but we work together to overcome issues and your team is always on hand to offer support and advice. Many of our team members stay with us for a long time, engaged by the variety and new challenges our diverse work offers.
 
 
At its core, our work is about creating opportunities – for our people as well as offenders. We need people of all skills and life experience to help us create these opportunities.
 
 
We are now recruiting Corrections Officers at our Spring Hill Corrections Facility near Hamilton.
 
For more information about this position please click here or contact us on the above email and phone number.

Job Description
 
About us
Criminal Conviction Checking Process
Equal Employment Opportunities Policy
Developing Cultural Responsiveness Policy

As part of your application, please print off and complete the below Ministry of Justice Criminal Conviction Form (pdf file*).  You may either scan and attach the completed form in the last section of the online application or post it to the above address.

*To download the pdf file you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader.  If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader on your PC, it can be downloaded for free from the Adobe website .
 

Ministry of Justice Form

How to apply:

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