Gladstone Child Safety Service Centre is seeking a Paralegal Officer who 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 positive 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.

How to apply 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/696519/26

Closing Date: Friday, 14th August 2026

📌 Paralegal Officer (Gladstone Central)
🏢 Department of Families, Seniors, Disability Services and Child Safety
📍 Gladstone Central