Common use of Workforce Redesign Clause in Contracts

Workforce Redesign. The parties note that the employer has previously commenced work on a workforce redesign program which involves reviewing Child and Family Services roles and teams with a view to enabling a future focused, contemporary workforce. The workforce redesign program will use human-centred design as a way of ensuring decisions are informed by the workforce and experts while developing new and innovative solutions. The employer will consult with Together Queensland Union via a joint working party to develop guiding principles to inform the continued work of the workforce redesign program. The joint working party will seek to: apply various workforce planning and redesign strategies focusing on team mix/design, roles and classification levels, maximising attraction and retention, and training and development needs; undertake research and comparison of roles, structural arrangements and relativities in other like jurisdictions and agencies; explore and pilot roles that assist in building better career pathways and attracting/retaining a more diverse workforce, particularly addressing the employer's Aboriginal and Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Islander workforce to ensure better representation; develop a proposed revised suite of recruitment and selection tools and policy that will focus on streamlining and improving attraction;