What it does: Education Management
Mission: Our goal has always been to provide education that can directly enhance your employment opportunities in the workforce.
Size and presence: Around 1300 globally in 6 locations.
Best known for: It provides adult education in a number of areas including the arts, hospitality, information technology, trades and business. Chisholm offers over 250 certificate, diploma, advanced diploma, bachelor and graduate certificate courses.
Chisholm Institute is a Technical and Further Education (TAFE) Institute located in the south-east Melbourne Australia. It provides adult education in a number of areas including the arts, hospitality, information technology, trades and business. Chisholm offers over 250 certificate, diploma, advanced diploma, bachelor and graduate certificate courses. It is government owned.
The Institute takes its name from Caroline Chisholm. Its name was also inspired by the Chisholm Institute of Technology, a tertiary institution that operated in southeast Melbourne from 1982 to 1990 before becoming part of Monash University.
Chisholm Institute has campuses in Dandenong, Springvale, Berwick, Frankston, Wonthaggi, Cranbourne, and Mornington Peninsula Campus along with central Melbourne.
Berwick Technical Education Centre (TEC) was established at the Berwick campus with the new building completed in 2009. A new trade careers centre worth $26 million associated with the TEC was announced in the 2011 State Budget in May.
Chisholm has long understood and valued the important contribution our people make to our success. Our people drive innovation, deliver the student experience we promise, build and strengthen our connection with our community and are the most crucial factor to our success.
At Chisholm, we’re leading in education and training to inspire success and transform lives.
We do this by providing contemporary, accessible and relevant education and training that keeps pace with what students and businesses need. We also do it by supporting and enhancing the culture and diversity that our communities bring.
It is an important job, and we do it by working collaboratively and with integrity, seizing the opportunities before us, and by always striving to achieve the highest standards for ourselves and for our students.
We also achieve it by living our values every day:
Steps of the recruitment process for a successful applicant
What happens after I submit my application?
As an applicant you will receive an electronic (email) acknowledgement once a completed application has been submitted.
We have large responses to many of our vacancies so thank you for being patient with us while we review your application. You can expect us to contact you within three weeks of the application closing date.
If you are selected for an interview you will receive a call and you will be advised of a day, time and location. Unsuccessful applicants will be notified by email.
What is the interview process?
The selection panel is responsible for shortlisting the applicants and conducting the interviews.
What is the reference checking process and how many referees do I need to provide?
As part of their resume, applicants should state the name, address, telephone number and current position of at least three people who have agreed to act as professional referees.
Written references, although not required at the time of application, may be included if desired. However, we will still want to talk with your referees.
The Institute reserves the right to contact one or more of the listed referees, as appropriate. If we want to talk to your referees, we will ask you first.
What happens when you are successful?
If you meet all pre-employment requirements, you will receive a written offer of employment via a notification email. This will include instructions to guide you through the process of accepting your offer and preparing for your onboarding.
We will be in touch with you to arrange your first day with us and run you through the details of our induction program.
What happens when you are not successful?
If your application is not successful, you will receive an email advising that your application will not be progressing to the next stage.
Chisholm is a values-based organisation that fosters an inclusive, diverse and highly engaged positive workforce. Developing our people to realise their potential.
At Chisholm, we understand that our people are vital to our success and ability to improve the experiences and outcomes we deliver to our students, employers and industry, and our communities.
Because of this, we invest in our people’s development and support and guide them in all aspects of their work. Building on our people’s passions also enhances the quality, flexibility and relevance of our education and training.
Together, we are creating education and training for the future.
The average Chisholm Institute Teacher yearly pay in Victoria is approximately $84,302, which meets the national average.
NATIONAL DISABILITY SERVICES
The sector is growing at an extraordinary rate and it is expected that by 2020, more than 18,000 new full time disability workers will be required in Victoria. In conjunction with National Disability Services (NDS) and the Department of Health, we hosted in July the National Disability Services Jobs Fair. Over 55 exhibitors and almost 500 visitors attended. It was the largest of the NDS Job Fairs held in Victoria. Exhibitions included interactive sessions on first aid in the disability sector, working in the simulated disability apartment, experiencing the nursing lab and learning about the services that are available in the community. The jobs fair was a way of connecting job seekers with employers. It enabled us to identify gaps in the skills base and potentially fill those through course offerings.
TRADING HOPE
Throughout 2019, we partnered with Hope Assistance Local Tradies (HALT) to deliver mental health talks and breakfasts to tradies at the Frankston, Dandenong and Rosebud campuses. We hosted the first HALT Save Your Bacon free breakfast. The event was a gateway to conversation about mental health for apprentices, staff and the community, and the services they can access to help themselves and their peers through difficult times. Our personal counsellors and local GPs were invited by the South Eastern Melbourne Primary Health Network in a show of whole-of-community support. HALT is a $1 million government commitment over four years for suicide prevention specifically aimed at tradies in the Mornington Peninsula region. The program provides important access for students, as the trade and apprentice suicide rates in the reg
COMMUNITY OPEN DAY
In October, the launch of the Frankston Learning and Innovation Precinct provided an opportunity for us to reconnect with the local community and to showcase our new $85 million facilities. The Precinct Community Open Day included building tours, demonstrations, hair and beauty make-overs and many family-oriented activities. The day was also an opportunity for the community to talk about engagement with the facilities and to plan for the future integration of local exhibitions and industry displays. The event provided the opportunity an showcase our significant role in the re-imagining of Frankston’s health and education precincts. The new on-campus development is home to an entire level of hospital and allied health care training for a range of courses, and is also equipped with 12 model health wards, dental and pathology laboratories and an allied health services apartment that provides student training in disability, mental health, and aged care support.