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Queensland public service roles use streams. The administrative stream runs Administrative Officer AO2, AO3, AO4, AO5, AO6, AO7 and AO8, then Senior Officer, then the Senior Executive Service. Professional Officer, technical and operational streams, and health practitioner and nursing streams, use their own classification labels. An AO5 project officer and a PO3 engineer can sit on the same program and still need different examples, because the role description is written to the stream.

Leadership Competencies for Queensland is the capability language. The clusters are Vision, Results and Accountability. Role descriptions name a leadership stream: individual contributor, team leader, program leader or executive. An AO3 administration officer is usually an individual contributor. An AO6 or AO7 role often leads a team or a function. Senior Officer and SES roles are read for a program or a portfolio. The role description lists the competencies that will be assessed. Copying all eleven competencies into every statement is how applications lose the point of the vacancy.

AO2 and AO3 applications are read for accurate work, systems, and service to the team. AO4 and AO5 applications start to own a project, a caseload or a piece of advice. AO6 and AO7 applications are where panels look for leadership of people or of a body of work, and for relationships outside the immediate team. AO8 and Senior Officer applications are read for a larger function, for risk and for how the work met an agency priority. SES applications are shorter and are read for judgement at scale.

Health roles inside Queensland Health use clinical streams as well as AO corporate roles. A registered nurse application is not an AO6 statement with clinical words added. Registration, the setting, and the clinical outcome belong in the clinical document. Corporate roles in a hospital and health service can still be AO graded and still use the Leadership Competencies.

Departments that advertise large numbers of Brisbane roles include the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, Queensland Treasury, the Department of Education, Queensland Health, the Department of Transport and Main Roads, the Department of Justice, and the Queensland Police Service. Other portfolios are renamed between elections. If the advertisement says a name you have not used before, use that name. The 2032 Games portfolio and the infrastructure portfolios advertise program and commercial roles that sit beside the traditional policy departments.

Public hospitals are run by hospital and health services. In Brisbane, Metro North includes the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, The Prince Charles Hospital and Redcliffe Hospital. Metro South includes the Princess Alexandra Hospital, Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Hospital and Logan Hospital. Queensland Children's Hospital is part of Children's Health Queensland. Mater Hospital Brisbane provides public services under a long-standing arrangement and is still a named employer in its own right. Write the hospital and health service the advertisement uses.

Clinical emergency, surgical, medical and mental health roles need the department inside the hospital, the triage or caseload, and the team. Allied health and health practitioner roles use their stream. Administrative roles in patient flow, health information, finance and capital works are AO or professional roles and follow the SmartJobs pack. A selection-criteria response that could sit on any hospital in Australia, with no Queensland service and no unit, is hard for a local panel to prefer.

Queensland Government vacancies are lodged on Smart jobs and careers at smartjobs.qld.gov.au. You need a SmartJobs account. The advertisement points to a role description. That role description states the classification, the leadership stream, the key responsibilities and how you will be assessed. Many vacancies ask for a résumé and a short statement, often one or two pages, addressing how you meet the requirements. Some still ask for separate responses against listed criteria. The file type and the closing time are on the advertisement.

Write the statement to the requirements in that role description. A generic public sector letter that never mentions the program, the client group or the classification wastes the page. The résumé holds the employment history, the qualifications and the systems. The statement holds two or three examples at the right level. If you are also applying for a private engineering role the same week, that résumé should not open with Leadership Competencies language.

Queensland still uses selection criteria on some role descriptions, and a single written statement on others. The statement is the selection document when the advertisement says so. It is usually tighter than five separate STAR essays. Each example still needs a situation, what you did, and the result, but the examples have to fit the page limit and map to the competencies the role description actually lists.

A one-page APS pitch is a third shape again. Federal agencies do employ people in Brisbane, and those vacancies are on APSJobs. If the ad asks for a pitch against the Integrated Leadership System, write the pitch. If SmartJobs asks for a two-page statement against Leadership Competencies for Queensland, write that statement. Sending the APS pitch to a Queensland panel, or the Queensland statement to an APS panel, fails the instruction before the examples are compared.

Private employers in engineering, construction and resources rarely want either document. They want a résumé that shows packages, standards, sites, crews and the thing you were accountable for. Keep the public sector statement and the industry résumé apart.