Employment

Staff Benefits

We are pleased to provide the following benefits:

  • Salary packaging up to $18,550 per year (increase your take home pay)
  • 35 hours per week for full-time employees
  • Flexible work options including 'flex time'
  • 23 annual leave days per year (and 17.5% leave loading)
  • 15 personal leave days per year
  • Paid parental leave for primary and secondary carer
  • Cultural or ceremonial leave
  • Paid professional development leave

Our team also receive training and development opportunities to support their work - including Mental Health First Aid, trauma-informed practice and de-escalation.

Our values

We are committed to the following values that underpin how we collectively and individually approach our work at TALS:

Culturally strong – we have clear awareness and respect for culture and our services are delivered in a culturally safe, sensitive and appropriate manner.

Self-determining – self-determination for Aboriginal people is central to our organisation, how we engage with clients and how we design and deliver our services.

Strengths based – the strengths of our service, our clients and their communities are harnessed to determine and guide delivery of optimal outcomes.

Client focused – the best outcome for the client is at the heart of all we do.

High quality – we are innovative and creative, and we strive for excellence in the services we deliver.

Collaborative – we collaborate within and outside our organisation for the benefit of our clients and the broader Aboriginal communities in Tasmania.

Accountable – we are accountable to ourselves, our organisation and the community.

Truth telling – we are honest about the past, and value the truth in all its forms, past, present and future.