• Recruitment and selection process
• Privacy statement

Recruitment and Selection Process

The Process

The recruitment and selection process involves the following steps:

1. Identifying a vacancy
2. Advertising
3. Shortlisting applicants
4. Asking short-listed applicants to complete computer skills tests and personality profile (where required)
5. Inviting suitable, shortlisted applicants to interview
6. Identifying the preferred applicant
7. Credentialing and checking employment references
8. Conducting a criminal record check (compulsory) and/or verification of working with children check (where required)
9. Offer of employment to the successful applicant

The Role of the Selection Committee

The selection process to identify a short list of suitable applicants for an interview will be undertaken by a committee.

Each selection committee is convened with care to ensure it has the necessary expertise to make a sound decision in a fair and impartial way. Collectively, the committee will have an understanding of the vacancy and its role and will be responsible for the integrity of the final selection decision.

Privacy Statement

Healthy North Coast recognises the importance of protecting your personal information and is subject to the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998. Healthy North Coast will take all reasonable steps to ensure that the collection, use, disclosure and handling of your information complies with the law.

Personal information supplied in your application or collected from you during the recruitment process will be used to process your application and make contact with you and your referees if required. In the case of unsuccessful applicants, the information will be destroyed after 12 months.

Please contact our Head Office by calling (02) 6618 5400 and ask to speak to a member of the Human Resources team if you have any queries.

At Healthy North Coast, our “CAN-DO” approach highlights what matters most to us: putting our communities first, working together to achieve more, and embracing innovation. By listening, collaborating, and constantly exploring new ideas, we’re dedicated to making a positive and lasting impact.

View our CAN-DO Values

If you share our values and would like to be part of the Healthy North Coast team, we welcome your application for vacant positions you consider suitable. We pride ourselves on being supportive and flexible. We celebrate diversity in our workforce and provide opportunities across a wide range of occupational streams.

• Flexible working arrangements
• Salary packaging
• Wellbeing

Flexible working arrangements

At Healthy North Coast, we support flexible work arrangements to enable individuals to manage work-life quality and commitments, where this is mutually beneficial.

Depending upon business requirements, we offer a range of employment engagements including:

• Temporary or maximum term contracts for short to medium term employment
• Casual short term work assignments

These arrangements can also include working part-time, negotiable start and finish times. Working from home is only available under certain conditions.

Salary Packaging

Available to all Healthy North Coast staff, salary packaging is an Australian Taxation Office (ATO) approved means of restructuring your income to optimise the value of your salary.

Benefits include:

• Packaging up to $15,900 of household expenses (mortgage, rent, personal loans, credit card payments, etc.) with pre-tax dollars to reduce your taxable income
• Reportable additional fringe benefits for venue hire (accommodation) and meals entertainment capped at $2,550.

Wellbeing

Healthy North Coast provides all employees with access to an Employee Assistance Program (EAP). This demonstrates our organisation’s commitment to maintaining a safe and healthy working environment. Where staff are experiencing work-related, personal or health problems, it may affect their work performance as well as their quality of life and a general sense of wellbeing. The EAP provides confidential, professional assistance at no cost to the employee to ensure that we maintain a healthy workforce.

• Equal employment opportunity
• Indigenous employment
• Workplace gender equality

Equal employment opportunity

Equal employment opportunity (EEO) means the absence of discrimination or less favourable treatment in employment based on attributes such as a person’s sex, age, race, disability, etc.

Healthy North Coast is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity which undertakes to:

• Create an environment where workers are able to work effectively, without fear of discrimination
• Establish appropriate programs in employment to overcome disadvantage in employment for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disabilities, women and other equity groups
• Ensure that all workers have reasonable access to benefits and services
• Have policies and procedures in place that ensure that employment practices are free from discrimination, and that appointment is based on merit

Indigenous Employment

Our footprint includes Aboriginal Nations from the Queensland border to south of Port Macquarie.

We are committed to creating sustainable employment opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and encourage Indigenous Australians to apply to vacancies with Healthy North Coast.

Workplace Gender Equality

Gender equality is achieved when people are able to access and enjoy the same rewards, resources and opportunities regardless of whether they are a woman or a man.

The aim of gender equality in the workplace is to achieve broadly equal outcomes for women and men, not exactly the same outcome for all individuals. In support of gender equity Healthy North Coast:

• Provides equal remuneration for women and men for work of equal or comparable value
• Seeks to remove barriers to the full and equal participation of women in the workforce
• Provides full and genuine access to all occupations, including to leadership roles for women and men
• Eliminates discrimination on the basis of gender particularly in relation to family and caring responsibilities for both women and men

Click here to view the 2018-2019 WGEA Public Report Form.