Recruit
We strive to be an employer of choice. We attract and recruit a workforce that represents the diversity of the community we serve.
- We have fair, inclusive, and accessible recruitment processes that allow us to attract the widest pool of people from diverse backgrounds
- We offer flexible work arrangements to mutually benefit the department and support the diverse needs and responsibilities of our employees
- We support all employees with their career aspirations and professional development.
Include
Our culture fosters practices that embed cultural safety, access and inclusion in all that we do so that every employee feels safe and welcome to bring their whole selves to work.
- We have a shared sense of purpose and belonging
- We care and treat each other with dignity and respect and embrace everyone’s uniqueness
- We understand our role and responsibility to drive a culture of safety and wellbeing and remove any barriers to inclusion
- We understand the importance of education and raising awareness
- Our policies and practices are accessible, flexible, equitable and inclusive of all people.
Develop
We ensure every employee is provided opportunity for continuous development so that they thrive at work.
- We identify and offer targeted development opportunities to employees of diverse backgrounds to address areas of underrepresentation
- We offer training and learning opportunities in a range of alternative formats to suit diverse learning styles
- We deliver a broad range of training and development opportunities for all our employees.
Lead
As the heart of government, we continually strive to be the exemplar for diversity and inclusion and model inclusive leadership.
- We recognise the importance of diversity, equity, access and inclusion principles that enables us to make better decisions
- We recognise that inclusive leadership is a key management skill
- We develop our leaders’ competency to work with a diverse workforce and create an inclusive team
- We seek, listen, and respond to the views and experiences of our employees
- We seek to lead the South Australian Public Sector through innovative strategies and programs in diversity and inclusion, and we recognise good practice in other agencies and collaborate to leverage our learnings across the public sector
- We co-design and/or consult on our policies, programs and initiatives with employees and people with lived experience, to lead strong policy outcomes and deliver trusted services, programs, and projects.
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