With offices throughout Brisbane and regional Queensland, CPL offers a range of careers and professional development opportunities for its staff. With services across the state CPL has the means to provide opportunities of transferring to different areas and opportunities for advancement within the organisation.

Work/Life Balance Environment

CPL takes a holistic view towards the family and work lives of our employees with the intention of helping staff balance work responsibilities with their family commitments in the following ways:

• Flexible working hours (e.g. within schools hours, to fit in with study schedules, etc)
• Maternity leave up to 12 months includes flexible working arrangements on return to work (e.g. with the agreement of CPL, the employee may work part time in one or more periods at any time after the date of birth of the child until its second birthday)
• Other types of leave available to employees include carer’s leave, annual leave, adoption leave, study leave, bereavement leave, parental leave, sick leave and also the facility for unpaid leave
• Work from home options

Staff Recognition

CPL recognises staff for their exceptional contribution to providing services for clients. Peers, clients or managers can identify staff members who have demonstrated exceptional performance.

• Recognition is acknowledged in the following ways:
• Commended at a monthly staff morning tea
• Recognition in League News
• Employee of the month section on staff noticeboards
• Recognition on the staff intranet

On the job development

Work Shadowing with Peers

CPL provides reasonable opportunities for its employees to increase their understanding of various roles within the organisation through work shadowing or “buddying”.

Mentoring Program

Goals of the Mentoring Program include:

• Provide an avenue for personal development
• Encourage fulfilment of goals
• Increase performance efficiency
• Increase socialisation
• Increases commitment to CPL

Performance Appraisals

Performance appraisals are an integral part of the developmental program for team members and provide a framework for appropriate recognition.

Training and Development Opportunities

CPL offers a wide range of training and professional development opportunities. CPL is a Registered Training Organisation and work in the following areas can lead to part or full nationally accredited qualifications:

• First Aid
• Certificate III & IV in Disability Work
• Certificate IV in Training and Assessment
• Management Training

CPL has an organisational Program to Recognise Prior Learning for existing staff in Certificate III & IV in Disability Work.

As well as training there are a wide range of internal and external professional development opportunities that reflect the significant diversity of the job opportunities in CPL.

Salary Packaging

CPL, through its status as a Public Benevolent Institution (PBI), can offer to permanent staff the opportunity to receive a component of their salary tax free. This is referred to as Salary Packaging. This tax free sum is utilised to pay expenses nominated by the staff member.

Staff can package up to a maximum of $16,050 per annum and have that paid into whatever bills they choose on a fortnightly basis: home loan, rental, credit card, personal loans, electricity, telephone, council rates, school fees – virtually anything you receive a receipt for (apart from investments).

CPL has a Salary Packaging Coordinator who can answer any queries on salary packaging on commencement or prior to employment with the organisation.