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Essential Requirements

Essential role requirements may include:

• qualifications or certifications (where necessary to practice)
• employment screening checks (such as a Criminal Record Check or Working with Children Check)
• licencing/registration requirements
• security and other clearances
• health assessments and fitness requirements
• whether the role is identified (e.g. Aboriginal identified roles)
• essential knowledge and experience considered  critical for successful performance in the role. Knowledge and/or experience should be considered in terms of:
  • Depth of experience which denotes a high degree of specialised expertise or knowledge in a particular discipline, and/or
  • Breadth of experience which characterises generalist roles often in leadership, management or senior professional roles across a number of streams, and/or
  • Experience gained within a particular context or specialised industry setting

Tip: This section should not include desirable or nice-to-have experience elements or "Selection Criteria" from previous position descriptions. Essential requirements are those without which an applicant could not undertake the role.

Where there are no "Essential Requirements" for the role, this section should be deleted from the final Role Description.