* Facilitate engaging programs to enhance detainee wellbeing
* Support diverse recreational and educational activities
* Join a committed team focused on welfare services
Activities Officer - Perth Immigration Detention Centre
Serco is a place where you can grow
Join a team of 12,000+ professionals across APAC and experience a place of challenge, opportunity, and reward.
We offer lots of headroom for you to grow and flexible benefits to suit you in every stage of your life and career, including:
* Opportunities for professional development and training
* Flexible, casual work with a focus on work-life balance
* Supportive and collaborative working environment
* Employee assistance programs for wellbeing and mental health
* Comprehensive training in welfare services and activity management
Make an impact at Serco
As an Activities Officer, you will play a vital role in delivering engaging and culturally sensitive programs and activities within an Immigration Detention Facility. Your work will help detainees build skills, enhance their mental health, and promote emotional resilience. This role is essential in providing meaningful engagement opportunities, ensuring detainees can participate in various educational, recreational, and leisure activities designed to meet their individual needs.
As an Activities Officer in the Welfare and Engagement team, you’ll make a positive impact by:
* Planning and delivering structured programs and activities that cater to diverse interests and needs
* Supporting detainees in accessing recreational equipment and maintaining accurate records
* Facilitating access to educational and spiritual activities, ensuring inclusivity and respect for diverse backgrounds
* Contributing to the P&A schedule with innovative ideas and responding to detainee feedback
* Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to promote detainee health and wellbeing
Serco is a place for you
You are empathetic and culturally sensitive, with a passion for delivering programs that support wellbeing and engagement. You have strong organisational skills and experience working in diverse environments. Your ability to connect with people from different backgrounds will help you build trust and make a meaningful impact in this role.
To be successful in this role you’ll have:
* Experience in Arts and Crafts or creative activities is highly desirable
* Experience managing and delivering structured programs or activities
* Strong organisational and communication skills, both written and verbal
* First Aid and CPR qualifications (or ability to obtain)
* Experience working with culturally and linguistically diverse individuals
* Ability to remain calm in stressful situations and demonstrate cultural sensitivity
You do not need to match every listed expectation to apply for this position. If you like the look of the role, we’d love to hear from you.
As a fast-growing and successful global company, Serco’s services span across the areas of justice, immigration, defence, space, customer services, health, and urban mobility. In joining us, you’ll be part of a highly supportive culture with trusted leaders that will help you achieve your goals.
Please note:
* This position carries trust and responsibility. To support this, a comprehensive probity assessment, including a Federal Police Check, is a key part of the selection process for this role.
* Our team members in this role must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our team. Please take this requirement into account when applying.
For help with your application or questions about the role, please contact me, Jacob Varnish, Talent Acquisition Business Partner, on 0459 276 008 or jacob.varnish@serco-ap.com
Are you ready to do important work that really matters?
At Serco, we bring together the right people, the right technology, and the right partners to create impactful solutions that address some of the world’s most urgent and complex challenges.
We focus on serving governments all over the globe. The work we do has touched the lives of millions in Australia, New Zealand, and Hong Kong, and offers unique opportunities to leverage your skills across our core capabilities in health, defence, maritime, justice, immigration, and community services.
We seek and celebrate diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds and cultures including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGTBQI+, veterans, and people with disability. By joining Serco, you’ll have access to Employee Networks led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion, and belonging.
Impact a better future at Serco.