Workforce Management — Schools

Overview

Workforce management is a planning and accountability framework for principals and managers that ensures the department's strategic priorities and objectives are delivered in an efficient and cost effective way, whilst providing for fairness in human resource management practices.

For policy and operational information about workforce management in schools, refer to the following topics:

Workforce planning

• Career Structure — Teaching Service
• Consultation with School Based Staff
• Inclusive Workplaces
• Student Resource Package — Managing the Budget
• Workforce Planning for Schools
• Work Requirements — Teachers

Recruitment and selecting staff

• Employment — Legal Basis
• Principal Selection
• Recruitment in Schools
• Special Payments

Appointing staff

• Inducting staff(opens in a new window)
• Probation — Teaching Service
• Recruitment in Schools — appointing staff on the payroll and pre-employment requirements
• Suitability for Employment Checks

Staff management

• Attendance and Working Hours — Teaching Service
• Managing Conduct and Unsatisfactory Performance in the Teaching Service
• Excess Procedures — Teaching Service
• Fitness for Duty
• Flexible Work
• Performance and Development for Principal Class Employees
• Performance and Development for Teacher Class Employees
• Performance and Development for Education Support Class Employees