Description:
- Salary: $106,512.00 - $115,137.00p.a. - ASO7
- Full time, fixed term contract commencing ASAP to January 2027
- City Fringe, Eastwood
The Opportunity:
We are seeking an experienced recruitment professional with exceptional customer service, communication, and leadership skills to work in partnership with leaders across SA Ambulance Service (SAAS) to build capability and drive contemporary, evidence-based hiring practices, ensuring our state's emergency health responder service attracts and retains top talent aligned with our values.
This role has both strategic and operational components. The successful incumbent will participate directly in selection processes to support and upskill hiring managers, whilst also contributing at a strategic level through the design of contemporary selection practices and workforce planning efforts.
Key responsibilities of this role will include:
- Leading a small team to deliver large-scale, campaign-based recruitment processes, in line with organisational needs;
- Providing formal training and informal coaching and education to hiring managers to ensure effective, evidence-based hiring practices that reflect the merit-based recruitment principles and reflect inclusive recruitment practices;
- Leveraging technology to drive efficiencies in recruitment and onboarding processes, optimising the candidate experience;
- Contributing to workforce planning and strategic talent management strategies to ensure future talent needs are met; and
- Providing timely, high level advice to senior leaders on SA government hiring practices.
About You:
To be successful in this role, you will have an extensive background in recruitment, preferably within a large complex organisation. We are open to applications from candidates who are looking for their first step up into leadership, or those with demonstrated leadership experience.
Other key requirements include:
- Extensive experience in end-to-end recruitment within a large, complex organisation, including some experience or exposure to large-scale and campaign-based hiring;
- Strong knowledge of merit-based selection principles and contemporary, evidence-based recruitment practices;
- Strategic thinking skills, with the ability to drive recruitment excellence and optimise processes;
- Experience and confidence in developing and delivering training to small and large groups;
- Excellent stakeholder engagement, relationship management, and influencing skills, with the ability to coach and partner with hiring managers and senior leaders;
- A track record of evaluating and improving recruitment processes, with expertise in change management to enhance efficiency and the candidate experience; and
- A strong understanding of inclusive recruitment practices and a commitment to supporting diversity and equity in hiring.
- Recruitment experience within a health care or service delivery setting would be advantageous but is not essential.
About Us:
SA Ambulance Service (SAAS) is South Australia’s provider of emergency ambulance transport, clinical care, and patient transport services.
We are committed to ensuring South Australia has access to the best possible emergency pre-hospital medical care, non-emergency transport, and rescue and retrieval services.
Our Vision : An innovative, patient focused, technology enabled, evidence driven, emergency response and health care ambulance service; achieved by exceptional people.
Our Mission : Providing emergency response and health care ambulance services within South Australia, designed and development around patient and community needs, enabling timely and equitable access for our patients to the most appropriate point of care.
Our Purpose : To ensure South Australia thrives by enabling access to emergency and non-emergency ambulance health care and alternative patient pathways while contributing to our state’s emergency preparedness and health response capability.
Our Values:
PATIENT FOCUSED : We will put our patients and the safe and quality care we provide them first; in everything we do.
TEAMWORK: We will work across SAAS, our health system, our partners, stakeholders and the community to achieve our goals.
INTEGRITY AND HONESTY: We accept and uphold the standards and expectations of our organisation and communities.
RESPECT AND COURTESY: We will always be respectful and courteous toward our patients, each other, and all those we work with.
COMMUNITY COLLABORATION : We value our role in the community, and we value the communities we serve.
CHANGE READY : We know our communities’ needs will evolve and we must adapt to meet them.
AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP: We will support leadership development for our people at every level.
What We Offer:
- Competitive remuneration plus salary packaging benefits up to $11,660 (including general living expenses & meal entertainment).
- Work in a collaborative, forward-thinking environment with a culture of inclusion and diversity
- Giving back the people of South Australia! Play a vital role in enhancing the well-being of our community.
- We take care of you! Access to a range of staff and wellness support programs!
Salary Packaging with Smart
As an employee of SA Ambulance Service, you may be eligible to salary package a range of living expenses through Smart -
Visit https://sagov.smart.com.au/ for more information.
Application Information:
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply for this role.
- The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.
- Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check and/or additional relevant history screening that may be applicable and appropriate Immunisation screening.
- SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.
Job ref: 895971
Enquiries to: Rachel Stephenson - Manager, Human Resources: rachel.stephenson@sa.gov.au
Application Closing Date: 11:55pm Sunday 2nd March 2024
Attachments
Team Leader Recruitment - [ASO7] - Workforce Services - [P18457] - Role Description.pdf
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