Role: Child Protection Partner

Location: Murarrie, Brisbane (with flexible working arrangements) however open to alternative locations for the right candidate

Employment Type: Full-time, 12mth Fixed Term

Are you passionate about safeguarding children and ensuring their safety?

Join Our Team as a Child Protection Partner!

As a Child Protection Partner, you’ll play a vital role in supporting our centres to respond to safeguarding concerns, child protection matters, and potentially harmful situations involving children.

Your guidance will help ensure that all children in our care feel safe, are safe, and continue to access high-quality early learning.

If you’re organised, calm under pressure, and passionate about making a difference, we’d love to hear from you.

Your Impact:

In this critical role, you’ll support centres across the country to manage and respond to child protection concerns in line with national and state-based legislation, reportable conduct schemes, and Goodstart’s child safe frameworks. You’ll build staff capability, provide timely advice, and guide centre teams through sensitive matters with professionalism and empathy.

By helping centres follow correct reporting processes, risk mitigation strategies, and incident close-outs, you’ll play a key role in maintaining our commitment to being a child safe organisation. Your contributions will directly support the wellbeing of children, while also uplifting the confidence, knowledge, and responsiveness of the educators and leaders who care for them every day.

What Goodstart can offer you:

• Flexible work arrangements giving you choice about when and how work will be done in order to better manage your work and non-work needs (As approved by management)
• Salary Packaging benefits which reduce your taxable income to increase take home pay
• Access to discounted childcare (up to 15%)
• Fitness Passport - access to gyms and pools for you and your family at a heavily discounted price
• Discounted health care and access to employee wellbeing program with BUPA
• Exclusive discounts on travel, gym memberships, Apple and Dell products, and more.
• Free annual flu shot (optional)
• Option to purchase extra leave for even greater work life balance  
• First Nations Support and Cultural Leave
• Work for a company that has an aspiration to be globally recognised for early years practice and learning outcomes
• Gain significant investment in your growth and development with support, tools, training and experiences that will truly enhance the progress and outcomes for children in their earliest years.

You’ll bring to the table:

• Previous experience in a customer-focused role, ideally with exposure to issue or incident management
• The ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment and quickly adapt to changing priorities
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to build trust and provide clear, practical guidance to centre staff
• Confidence in following organisational processes, policies, and legislation related to child protection
• Familiarity with child safe principles, child protection frameworks, and the Education and Care Services National Law and Regulations (desirable)
• Experience managing or responding to safeguarding concerns, investigations, or reportable conduct (desirable)
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and the ability to use data and systems to monitor and track reports and trends (desirable)
• Previous experience in early childhood education is a bonus, but not essential
• A current Working with Children Check relevant to your state or territory

How to apply

Click ‘Apply Now’ and submit your application.

We review applications as they are submitted. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible for your best chance to progress to the next stage of the process. 

Have a question? Contact our Talent Acquisition Team via email recruitment@goodstart.org.au

At Goodstart we are deeply committed to Reconciliation and encourage Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people to apply. For further information and support email deadlycareers@goodstart.org.au

If you are a placement agency or external recruiter, please refrain from submitting resumes to Goodstart unless you have a signed staffing agency agreement with us. Goodstart will not be responsible for or pay any placement fees for candidates submitted by agencies that are not approved suppliers. Any resumes received from agencies or external recruiters without an agreement will be reviewed by Goodstart and may be shared with our internal recruiting team for their reference.

Supporting our people and protecting our children

We’re an equal opportunity employer that is proud of our inclusive and diverse work environment. We know that Goodstarters from diverse cultures, backgrounds and experiences strengthen our teams and help us grow. We’re also deeply committed to Reconciliation and creating an environment where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People feel a strong sense of belonging and connection.

Safety is our priority and we will take any action necessary to ensure that all children can feel safe and be safe, and are safeguarded from abuse, neglect and harm. As a Child Safe Organisation, all of our candidates must have or obtain a valid working with children check.

Posting Notes: AUSTRALIA || Australia || Australia (AU) || | SF:LI || No Early Childhood Qualification || Full-Time