Overview

The quality of the workforce is the major factor driving improvement in schools. The Department of Education (the department) supports a culture of leadership, learning and renewal in all workplaces with opportunities for career development and advancement. Excellent service provision can only happen when the right people are attracted, recruited, and supported to do their jobs as effectively as possible.

In this context schools are able to build progressively, or maintain, a workforce that can provide the best possible teaching and learning in the school. The department is committed to the standard mode of employment in schools being ongoing.

Schools have the capacity to select the best available employees to meet the educational needs of students and to maximise ongoing employment opportunities in Victorian government schools. Local selection arrangements provide the most effective way of matching the talents and career aspirations of employees with the specific needs of individual schools.

Related policies

• Compassionate Transfer — Teaching Service
• Conflict of Interest 
• Consultation with School Based Staff
• Values — Department and VPS Values for School Employees
• Dimensions of Work — Education Support Class
• Excess Procedures — Teaching Service
• Principal Selection 
• School Jobs Vic
• Remuneration - Teaching Service
• Roles and Responsibilities — Teaching Service 
• Special Payments
• Statutory Declarations and Affidavits
• Suitability for Employment Checks
• Victorian Public Sector Employment Principles and Standards
• Workforce Planning for Schools
• Working in More Than One School

Relevant legislation

• Delegations
• Industrial Agreements
• Industrial Awards
• Legislation — Employment Topics
• Ministerial Orders — Employment