Gladstone Child Safety Service Centre is seeking a paralegal officer to prepare court documents (eg. affidavits) and provide support and administrative assistance to child safety officers in preparing for court processes.
As a Paralegal Officer you will:
Provide administrative support to child safety officers and prepare court documents (eg. 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 applications for child protection orders.
Establish and maintain collaborative relationships with departmental legal officers 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.
Your mandatory requirements
It is mandatory to hold a Blue Card administered by the Queensland Public Safety Business Agency
Possession of a 'C' class driver's licence
While not mandatory, a good working knowledge and understanding of legal and/or court processes would be desirable.
Please note that this role will not contribute to Post Legal Training (PLT) as it is not overseen by a legal practitioner.
To enable us to assess your application, please submit the following via www.smartjobs.qld.gov.au:
Resume and minimum of 2 referees including their email addresses. At least one referee should have a thorough knowledge of your work over the past two years as your manager or supervisor.
a statement not more than two pages, that summarises your skills, experience and achievements against the leadership competencies and duties/responsibilities of the position.
Applications to remain current for 12 months.
Job Ad Reference: QLD/691112/26
Closing Date: Monday, 22nd June 2026This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.
