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SalaryPeople and Culture is a corporate area within the Department with a strategic focus on workforce planning, talent attraction and retention, safety and wellbeing, cultural capability and diversity, industrial stability and performance, governance, complaints management and organisational development. The team are physically located in different sites in Brisbane and regional districts across Queensland.
The function of the Central Recruitment Team is to deliver centralised state-wide recruitment of Child Safety Officers (CSOs). CSOs are responsible for the delivery of statutory child protection services for Queensland. The team delivers an operational recruitment service and implements strategic recruitment projects associated with the CSO workforce. The team’s primary clients are the managerial and executive staff of Child Safety Services.
Job details Position status Permanent
Position type Full-time
Occupational group HR & Industrial Relations
Classification AO7
Workplace Location Brisbane Inner City
Job ad reference QLD/544963/24
Closing date 28-Feb-2024
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Contact person Kylie Walden
Contact details Phone: 0730975755
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In this role you will lead a team to provide best practice advice, specialising in the recruitment and selection of frontline child protection professionals and other departmental staff. Within this scope you will deliver practical information and culturally appropriate recruitment and selection methods including talent attraction, candidate assessment, guidance to tools available as well as on-boarding, induction and retention of staff. You will also be required to contribute expert knowledge and skills to lead the team to implement strategic recruitment projects in a complex workforce.
The Principal Team Leader will work with Child Safety Services Centres to attract, recruit and retain PO2 Child Safety Officers. With a focus and priority to provide consistent and contemporary screening and recruitment processes, creating effective and efficient recruitment to the regions. The Principal Team Leader will also provide project management skills to implement strategic initiatives and objectives.
The Principal Team Leader key responsibilities are:
- Lead, manage and mentor the team responsible for the delivery of recruitment and screening of PO2 Child Safety Officers, coordinating interdependencies to successfully deliver business outcomes.
- Provide high level advice on strategic and operational planning for advertising and recruitment by conducting business reviews with regions to assess risk; review strategies; and identify potential efficiencies and improvement opportunities.
- Provide high level operational and strategic leadership, monitoring, management and quality assurance of the critical business deliverables of the recruitment team and represent the Unit on internal and external working groups and committees.
- Deliver contemporary culturally appropriate high level advice and consulting services to executive, hiring managers, and applicants relating to vacancy management and recruitment and selection for roles across the Department.
- Review and provide advice to all clients on best practice attraction, recruitment and retention strategies for Child Safety reporting and performance evaluation of current processes using appropriate contemporary project management methodology, processes, tools, reporting regimes and approaches.
- Develop strategic relationships and engage with key internal and external stakeholders to develop innovative recruitment strategies. Provide clear communication and ongoing reinforcement of identified objectives, timeframes, methods and standards to adhere to.
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