Queensland Government Employee Reviews

Provided an environment where innovation was welcome and effort rewarded. Resulted in committed and productive team work and a harmonious office workplace.

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Productive workplace

Registered Nurse (Current Employee) - Australia - 4 September 2023

New learning experience for everyday, a lot of exciting and growing opportunities, great teamwork and management. Can be stressful and busy at times

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Was good

Planner (Former Employee) - Brisbane QLD - 19 June 2023

Loved my time there. Would've preferred to stay longer but couldn't sadly. Would gladly return anytime to continue working there. Everyone there is lovely.

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I’ve always enjoyed working for QAS and Qhealth

Paramedic/Registered Nurse (Current Employee) - Brisbane QLD - 18 April 2023

Have been a paramedic for nearly 20 years and a nurse for about 10 years - both are rewarding roles and I highly recommend both jobs as a career- management is pretty good and most days are good days - I really don’t have anything to complain about as I enjoy both my jobs - pay is good. Uniforms are supplied

Pros

Rewarding and both great companies to work for

Cons

Hours are long some days and very busy in Brisbane

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An unhappy chapter in my life :(

Child Safety Officer (Former Employee) - Brisbane QLD - 8 April 2023

Do you like sitting down all day in a noisey open-plan office trying to focus on extremely stressful tedious and emotional work on the screen and a constant barrage of urgent emails and angry abusive phone calls? Then look no further. I worked here as a graduate and was very grateful to have the opportunity. After 6 months I had to leave as I was burnt out and felt terrible every day. I hated going to work. A year later and the experience still gives me chills. The staff turn over around me was outrageous with a distinct lack of experienced coworkers and people to be guided by. Or even a positive example to follow. The work follows you home and the stress is constantly on your mind. The department runs on cortisol and crisis. Everything is a nightmare from the IT systems to the overwhelming inefficient and suffocating paper work. Plus the outrageous work load they expect CSOs to fulfill and god help you if something goes wrong, which you cant control. It's all about not getting caught out by the lawyers and 'climbing the ladder' career wise. In the end, child safety has created a system that dispite its best intentions, does more harm than good to all involved; the children, the families AND the workers. Chronic health problems and personal vendettas are what keep people working there. If you want to be a healthy and happy person, this is a place to avoid unfortunately. I would strongly recommend not working here but you may have to find out for yourself. The attitude I would recommend you adopt is not focusing on outcomes for vulberable people and get -

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Queensland Government insights

Based on 5 survey responses

What people like

Feeling of personal appreciation
Time and location flexibility
Ability to learn new things

Areas for improvement

Support from manager
Overall satisfaction
Sense of belonging

Toxic culture at the very top

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & STATE ARCHIVIST (Former Employee) - Brisbane - 1 January 2023

Toxic culture starts at the top with ministers and senior bureaucrats. A complete lack of integrity and a culture of self preservation at the very top. They will betray anyone to look after themselves. All that you have heard about it is true. It has serious issues at the very top compensated by lots of very good people trying to do their best

Pros

Good staff at mid to lower levels

Cons

Toxic culture at the top with zero integrity most in senior officals

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It’s a great place to work if you want to have a career as you can move around

Endorsed Enrolled Nurse (Current Employee) - Gold Coast QLD - 10 July 2022

I think it’s fun exhausting at times sometimes you have to do a lot of reading in between the lines but When am I getting paid for the work I have done.😃

Pros

Flexible rostering

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Very supportive friendly working environment, taking care of your interests and continuous training and development.

Nuclear medicine technologist (Former Employee) - Brisbane QLD - 7 March 2022

Worked at RBWH, very friendly staff and supportive culture. I felt accepted very well as a junior staff member. Enjoyed and looked forward to going to work everyday.

Pros

Good salary Positive culture Professional development

Cons

HR takes long Long hours

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Toxic Bullying culture. Not a safe place for non neurotypical or disabled employees. Gossip across the HHS. Unfair unethical employment decisions.

Clinical Nurse/Midwife (Former Employee) - Mareeba QLD - 24 January 2022

Expected to work in a high stress environment and cover for staff sickness on going and then management blame you for hitting burn out and needing sick leave as a result from the working conditions.

Pros

Plenty of positions need filling. Nice area to live Affordable place to live

Cons

Work overload, lots of staff sickness, not an inclusive work place, no accommodations for disability, No empathy from management, Unethical decisions made gossip and lack of support or empathy, placed staff member in dangerous (potentially life threatening) situation, Not given appropriate time off- including time off call for WTE .8 etc

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Wouldn’t go back.

Teacher (Former Employee) - Central Queensland Mc QLD - 21 January 2022

- Colleagues that speak down about their peers and students. - transfer lies that say we can get back home within three years which isn’t the case. - negative view of colleagues and management - never ending introduction of useless diagnostics that take time away from teaching. - prescriptive tools that take our autonomy away. - dangerous students and no way to protect ourselves - desks and chairs thrown. - ever increasing class sizes - lack of non-contact - lack of inclusion - terrible staff and student wellbeing.

Pros

Pay packet Holidays

Cons

Long hours Us and them mentality

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Discouraging and stressful workplace people not game to speak the truth for fear of losing position

Former LOTE History Teacher at Qld Department of Education (Former Employee) - Gympie and Mary Valley - 9 December 2021

After trying to secure a permanent position with the Department of Education I resigned from the department after 6 years . All I was ever given was one month occassionally 2 month contracts never any offer of longer term work no matter where I applied and what school I worked at. Despite working long hard hours and trying very hard to do my best with very limited support from any member of the staff, very poor induction and training in the work place and distant management with little hands on assistance. Dealing with difficult behavioural problems and learning disabilities but given very little support, no opportunity to teach all time spent on behaviour management with children that should not be in mainstream schooling. Very discouraging. I do not recommend this employer. I am glad I am no longer teaching in this toxic environment. The dedicated teachers that put up with this deserve medals.

Pros

Maybe local country work available but rarely.

Cons

Long hours unrealistic expectations

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Worst place I have ever worked Bullying culture

Child Safety Officer (Former Employee) - Cairns QLD - 10 October 2020

What do you say?Worst place everManagement micro manageworkloads too highBullying culture just awfulnot enough hours in the day to get it all doneyou need to have a legal background as now we do all the lawyers work Court work extremely high.not enough time to spend with families and this is suppose to be our job.

Pros

Helping families

Cons

Management stick together you have no chance

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Warning - Do not apply!

CSO (Current Employee) - Brisbane QLD - 26 August 2020

I can not warn you enough do not apply for DOCS unless you want to ruin your career, ruin your health and possibly never work again. The Dept is toxic - all their stakeholders and clients do not like them - so it is hard working there when nobody likes the Dept - no matter how hard you try. You’ll be humiliated time and time again - most of the management are toxic. There is no supervision - even after experiencing some horrific events . If you’re a young social worker - don’t do it - you’ll ruin your career as most of the young ones walk out. Then that makes you look bad to get another job.

Pros

None

Cons

The events that are covered up by the govt and the CSO the scapegoat.

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There needs to be a change in management at all levels and a review of standard qualifications to be accepted for practice.

Placement Student (Former Employee) - Wide Bay-Burnett QLD - 12 June 2020

There is a bad workplace culture at Child Safety and a mismatch of qualifications required to undertake all roles. Specialist roles need to be filled with relevant core qualifications as a minimum e.g. Social workers, Social Welfare graduates, who possess as a minimum, a Bachelor Degree. There also needs to be specialist training in OHS, Safety & Security of children so that staff are able to identify risks e.g. perpetrators, carers, partners, and physical and environmental risks etc. This could be facilitated by collaboration with police in investigation etc. and Crime Prevention. When OHS was raised at Team Meetings all staff would laugh, yet staff experience burn out and the organisation, the associated Workers Compensation costs. Morale is low. External Supervision should occur and not be as a group process to cut time. The time for External Supervision should be allocated as work time and occur at least fortnightly and be undertaken off site.

Pros

N/a

Cons

Very Long Hours

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Good

Call Centre Operator (Former Employee) - Brisbane QLD - 21 April 2020

Training good and people in track with others team leader support and call quality to make sure we're doing write thing over the phone time mangemant needs to be better andctgr organized luch break people take longer and fill out fill out form to be correct witch j have noticed but mmm manger and supervisor can not keep track because of all the employee that work there if pneed to s

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Productive, committed and harmonious place to work for during my stint.

Project Director (Former Employee) - Brisbane QLD - 7 April 2020

Well led, conscientious and diligent management. Committed and reliable work group. Work objectives clearly enunciated to staff and expectations understood.

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Oso & pso

Operational Services Officer/ Patient Services Officer (Former Employee) - Gold Coast QLD - 18 March 2020

Physically demanding, work rate is high have to get a lot done in a short amount of time. Team Leaders are not helpful they’re a good at seeing what’s wrong never uplifting the team in the work that they do. Not much support at all. Training is thorough but they do not allow progression in terms of higher roles. Parking should be free

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Relaxed, challenging and rewarding role

Business Support Officer (Current Employee) - Brisbane QLD - 23 February 2020

My work involves administration and project work. Managing calendars and assisting with administration as and when required, including HR. I have been introduced to BI, am working with Content Manager as a super user. I am also looking to learn Microsoft Teams, so I can be a more effective conduit for the team.

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Great learning experience, starting from the bottom of the hierarchy. Learn a lot this way and opportunities to climb the ladder.

Inspector (Former Employee) - Thursday Island QLD and Cairns. - 16 January 2020

It all depends on which Department you work for. Enforcement Depts tend to have more stress than no enforcement. QG does try to look after it's employees. Job Security is solid. A change of management is too often due to promotions. Scope for moving into other areas of the Depts or to other departments.

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Great place to work

Data entry (Former Employee) - Brisbane Central Business District QLD - 5 January 2020

Great place to work and staff are always great to get along with supervisors are always helpful and easily approachable would recommend working here to anyone

Cons

To many breaks during the year being temp work

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Great team environment

Administrator (Former Employee) - Brisbane City QLD - 3 December 2019

I managed to utilise my administration skills from previous jobs which made it easier for me when working within this department. Although there are several internal systems to get used to you recieve all the necessary training required.

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