- Exciting opportunities for career progression
- Join a tight-knit team at Melbourne Immigration Detention Centre
- A chance to make a difference
General Studies Teacher
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:
- Health and wellness programs
- Opportunities for professional development and training
- Supportive and inclusive workplace culture
Make an impact at Serco
At Serco, we do important work that really matters. We bring together the right people, the right technology, and the right partners to create innovative solutions that make a positive impact and address some of the most urgent and complex challenges facing the modern world. With a focus on serving governments globally, Serco’s services in AsPac span community services, health, defence, justice, and immigration.
Serco is committed to an inclusive and gender-equal workplace where everyone feels safe and supported and where everyone matters. Serco is focused on providing quality Welfare and Engagement (W&E) services and support that provide detainees with skills, confidence, and opportunities to proactively engage and explore options pertaining to their health and wellbeing. This is a full time, permanent position working Monday to Friday, 9:00am – 5:00pm.
As a General Studies Teacher in the Welfare and Engagement (W&E) team, you’ll make a positive impact by:
- Planning, facilitating, managing, and delivering structured and unstructured Programmes and Activities (P&A) for individuals in immigration detention, including educational, sporting, recreational, spiritual, and leisure activities.
- Ensuring activities are meaningful and encourage detainees to actively participate.
- Preparing materials and delivery areas for activities prior to commencement of every session.
- Instructing detainees individually and in groups, using various teaching methods including presentations, discussions, and demonstrations.
- Planning and conducting activities for a balanced program, providing detainees with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate.
Serco is a place for you
You will thrive in this role by leveraging your skills and experience to deliver meaningful outcomes. You are someone who values inclusivity and diversity, and you are committed to promoting the wellbeing of people in detention. You have a passion for delivering high-quality educational programs and possess the ability to engage and inspire individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds. Your strong communication skills, organizational abilities, and capacity to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team will be key to your success.
To be successful in this role you’ll have:
- Experience in working with people from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) and different religious backgrounds.
- A minimum of two years’ experience in the delivery of adult educational programmes in an institution or community setting is desirable.
- Demonstrated understanding of the influence educational opportunities can have on improved mental health for individuals.
- Sound experience in the development, planning, organizing, delivery, and review of educational programmes which are engaging, meaningful and relevant to diverse needs and interests.
- Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team environment.
- Evidence of effectively prioritizing, executing tasks, providing innovative ideas to improve service delivery.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office software and its applications.
- Ability to proactively build rapport and create culturally secure respectful relationships, including with vulnerable people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds and those who have may have recent experience in the criminal justice system.
- Ability to remain calm in stressful situations.
- 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.
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, LGBTQI+, veterans, and people with disabilities.
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.