HR & Recruitment Advisor

Social Services Regulator; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Social Services Regulator in Victoria is seeking an HR and Recruitment Advisor to provide responsive HR advisory and recruitment services across the organisation.

You will support managers, guide employment lifecycle activities, and ensure processes align with VPS and organisational policies.

The role focuses on timely, accurate advice, end-to-end recruitment, and efficient, customer-focused HR services.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering HR advisory and recruitment services.

Responsibilities

• Provide timely, accurate HR guidance on employment matters and policies.
• Support hiring managers through end-to-end recruitment and selection.
• Coordinate employee lifecycle activities and ensure records compliance.

Job description

The Social Services Regulator (SSR) is an independent statutory authority that exists to safeguard the rights of children and young people as well as people who use social services in Victoria.

The SSR regulates the Social Services Standards, the Child Safe Standards (for organisations without a sector specific co-regulator as well as the social services sector), and also administers the Worker and Carer Exclusion Scheme (WCES), Reportable Conduct Scheme (RCS) and Working with Children Check (WWCC) scheme and NDIS Worker Screening Check.

The Social Services Regulator takes an integrated and intelligence driven approach to identifying, preventing and excluding unsafe people from working with children and young people, as well as ensuring organisations that work with children and young people keep children safe from abuse and harm by meeting the Child Safe Standards.

As a co-regulator of the Child Safe Standards, the Social Services Regulator works with other co-regulators of the Child Safe Standards including the Department of Health, Victorian Registration and Qualifications Authority (VRQA), Victorian Early Childhood Regulation Authority (VECRA), and Workforce Inspectorate Victoria to keep children safe from harm and abuse.

THE ROLE

The HR and Recruitment Advisor provides responsive and practical HR advisory and recruitment services to support the effective delivery of People and Culture functions across the organisation. The role delivers recruitment and employment lifecycle activities, provides advice and guidance to managers and employees, and contributes to the delivery of efficient, consistent and customer-focussed HR services.

ACCOUNTABILITIES INCLUDE

• Provide timely, accurate and practical advice and guidance to managers and employees on a range of employment matters, including employment conditions, policies, procedures and general HR issues.
• Provide advice and support to hiring managers through the end-to-end recruitment and selection process, including coordinating specific recruitment activities and ensuring that recruitment processes are timely, efficient, and consistent with VPS and organisational policies.
• Coordinate and administer a range of employee lifecycle activities, including appointments, internal assignments, secondments and transfers, separations and other employment transactions, ensuing accurate records and compliance with relevant policies and organisational requirements.