About Department for Education, Children and Young People (DECYP)
This is a Department built entirely for children and young people and their communities. Our ultimate goal is to work together to ensure that every child and young person in Tasmania is known, safe, well and learning.
The child is at the centre of everything we do and the way we do it.
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We provide educational services through our 12 Child and Family Centres, Launching into Learning programs (babies to 4 year olds and their families), primary, combined, secondary and senior secondary schools around the state, including education delivered flexibly or via blended learning. Our Libraries give Tasmanians access to a wide range of services including community learning.
Teachers are central to school improvement efforts. Improving the efficiency and equity of schooling depends, in large measure, on ensuring that competent people want to work as teachers, that their teaching is of high quality, and that all students have access to high quality teaching.
The Department’s overarching objective is that all learners succeed as connected, resilient, creative and curious thinkers. It is these attributes that research shows will prepare learners for further education and the world of work in the 21st Century.
The 2018-2021 Department of Education Strategic Plan, Learners First: Every Learner, Every Day, continues to inform the Department’s culture, priorities, approach to improvement and allocation of resources.
The Strategic Plan articulates the Department’s shared values of aspiration, courage, growth and respect, which guide behaviours, and inform decisions, across the whole Department. It also focusses the Department on the delivery of four evidence-based goals to improve outcomes for all learners: access, participation and engagement; early learning; wellbeing; and literacy and numeracy. The Department’s efforts toward achievement of these goals is tailored to a learner’s age, ability and aspirations in the areas of: early learning; primary and secondary education; senior secondary education; and adult learning.
Employment
The Department for Education, Children and Young People (DECYP) is one of the largest government agencies in Tasmania. A range of staff are employed to fulfil organisational and functional needs across a range of areas, particularly in schools and colleges, corporate services, adult and community education, library and archive services.
The main occupations include teachers, teacher assistants, librarians, social workers, speech and language pathologists, school psychologists, education facility attendants, general administrative and clerical support.
Employment can be on either a permanent or fixed-term basis (for a specified term or for the duration of a specific task) or on a casual/relief basis as required.
Permanent and Fixed Term vacancies are advertised on the Tasmanian Government Careers website.
The DECYP Fixed Term and Relief Employment Register lists the roles that may become available in various locations and departmental areas such as schools and Libraries Tasmania statewide for a specific term up to 12 months, and on a relief basis. A fixed-term and relief employment register is not a vacancy, and inclusion on a register does not guarantee any offer of employment will be made.
Staff are employed in accordance with the provisions of the State Service Act 2000 with conditions of employment outlined in other statutes and industrial awards and agreements.
For further information please contact Recruitment and Employment via e-mail recruitment@decyp.tas.gov.au or (03) 6165 6285.
The Department for Education, Children and Young People is committed to providing a safe workplace for all employees and has zero tolerance to all forms of violence.
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