Recommendation

Responsibility for recruitment to devolve to Director CAP and Director IDS with a maximum six week turnaround to appointment.

The recruitment of direct-care staff in the group houses is now the responsibility of Community Programs Branch with delegations being held by the Executive Director.

All recruitment action is required to be completed within a 3 month period. Recruitment delegations for office-based staff are held by the General Manager, Community Division.

A more stringent process of monitoring recruitment at the Branch level has improved response times.

Has been implemented.

Dell 2.4

Negotiations with HSUA to address staff movement, rostering and house management issues. The maintenance of current agreements is not an efficient use of resources and cannot be allowed to continue.

The current reform process aims to improve staffing and human resource management practices, including staff movement, rostering and house management, and to ensure that staffing arrangements are flexible to allow for efficient use of resources. Staff and the HSUA will be consulted at every stage of the reform process.

The Memorandum of Understanding will also be considered and reviewed if necessary.

Consultation has taken place with the HSUA, staff, families and advocates during August/September and November 1995 regarding regionalisation of disability services and broad future directions of these services.

Changes to workplace practices are the subject of Enterprise Bargaining negotiations with the HSUA and the initial changes to line management responsibilities along regional lines were implemented on 22 January 1996. Progress with these changes is subject to continuing negotiation with the HSUA and the CPSU Professional Division.