Providing significant development opportunities for professional staff can be challenging to prioritise alongside core duties of the role, workload flux, deadlines and process improvement programs. In a rapidly changing world and workplace, embracing flexibility in the development planning and career progression of staff is critical to success. 

Internal Secondments or Internal Temporary Transfers are an excellent opportunity for staff to accelerate their career by adapting their existing transferable skills to a role sideways or further up the career ladder, enabling them to learn new skills, in a new department, or to engage with new staff, processes and systems that they would often otherwise not have the opportunity to experience in an otherwise job-insecure manner. 

Come and join this session where Dale Baum (Serial Seconder) and Tracey Holding (MDHS HR Business Partner) explore all the benefits of internal secondments and the opportunities it provides to staff members, their supervisors, the team, business units and the University as a whole, and how to best plan and approach temporary internal transfer opportunities.

Dale Baum, Health and Safety Systems Lead, Health and Safety Services, Enterprise Services Group

Tracey Holding, HR Business Partner, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences.