Employment Application Form

927 Springvale Rd, Keysborough 3173 Ph: 8796 7373 Fax: 8796 7374

Email: school.office@lighthouse.vic.edu.au ABN: 98 542 894 389 Reg# A001869OK

• If they have not already done so, applicants should include in their email a copy of their personal Resume/CV containing the following information:
• Your Schooling
• Your Tertiary Training with copies of qualifications
• Other Training undertaken
• Your Employment History
• Other Relevant Experiences
• Your Interests

 

A Note to Applicants

Thank you for your interest in Lighthouse Christian College. The submission of this application form is the first step in applying for a position in the College.

If your application is “short-listed” we will be in contact with you to arrange an interview.

The following information will be of assistance to you as you work through the application procedure:

1. Applicants are not compelled to supply all of the information requested on the application form.

2. We request that you read the attached Privacy Policy Information Collection Notice as a part of our compliance with national Privacy laws.

We are a Child Safe employer, with a zero tolerance for child abuse. A current VIT registration is mandatory for all teaching staff and a current Employee Working With Children Check (WWCC) card for all non-teaching staff

List here the main relevant tertiary qualifications that you hold.

Please provide contact details for people whom we can contact to obtain verbal references for you. Please gain their permission to include their names here.

Lighthouse Christian College Information Collection Notice

1. The College collects personal information, including sensitive information about job applicants. This includes information provided in your job application, in the course of conversation or as collected from third parties on your behalf, such as employment referees. The primary purpose of collecting this information is to enable the College to consider your application for employment with the College.

2. Some of the information the College collects is to satisfy the College’s legal obligations, particularly to enable the College to discharge its duty of care to enrolled students.

3. Laws governing or relating to the operation of a school require certain information to be collected and disclosed. These include relevant Education Acts and Public Health and Child Protection laws.

4. In order to consider your application for employment and to facilitate and manage your employment relationship with the College, you consent to our collecting personal information about you from recruitment agencies, law enforcement agencies for criminal checks and working with children checks, educational institutions to verify your qualifications, and other individuals or businesses we contact for the purpose of reference-checking as agreed with you.

5. The personal information that is collected about you will be stored securely in a recruitment record. If you are successful and become an employee, then an employee record will be created and the personal information we have collected will be stored in this file. Employee records are exempt from the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) under the Privacy Act 1988.

6. If you are not offered a position or if you decline an offer of a position at the College the information stored in your recruitment record will be stored for 12 months, unless you advise us to destroy the records at an earlier time. At this time, the College will take reasonable steps to destroy or deidentify the information as appropriate.

7. The College may disclose personal and sensitive information for administrative, educational and support purposes (or may permit the information to be directly collected by third parties This may include to:

• government departments;
• people providing administrative and financial services to the College;
• anyone you authorise the College to disclose information to; and
• anyone to whom the College is required or authorised to disclose the information to by law, including under child protection laws.

8. Failure to provide the information to the College will affect the College’s ability to evaluate your application and may result in the recruitment process not proceeding.

9. The College may also use cloud computing service providers to store personal information (which may include sensitive information) on their servers in the 'cloud'. These servers may be located in or outside Australia. This may mean that personal information may be stored or processed outside Australia.

10. The College’s Privacy Policy contains further information about its use of cloud and other thirdparty service providers and any of their overseas locations.

11. The College’s Privacy Policy is accessible via the College website or from the College office. The Policy sets out how job applicants and employees may seek access to, and correction of their personal information which the College has collected and holds. However, access may be refused in certain circumstances such as where access would have an unreasonable impact on the privacy of others, or may result in a breach of the College’s duty of care obligations. Any refusal will be notified in writing with reasons if appropriate.

12. The College’s Privacy Policy also sets out how job applicants and employees can make a complaint about a breach of the APPs and how the complaint will be handled.

13. If you provide the College with the personal information of others, such as other employment referees, doctors or emergency contacts, we encourage you to inform them you are disclosing that information to the College and why, that they can request access to and correction of that information if they wish and to also refer them to the College’s Privacy Policy for further detail about such requests and how the College otherwise handles personal information it collects and complaints it receives.