Role: Practice Partner - QRS

Location: Mackay, QLD

Employment Type: Full time, 6 months Fixed-term

With 15,000 Goodstart team members across 654 centres nurturing 61,400 children, we’re Australia's largest provider of early learning and care. As a not-for-profit social enterprise, we exist purely to improve the lives of Australia's children and their families. From our centre teams to our support teams, we work together to make a real difference for children in those crucial early years.

Goodstart Early Leaning in currently seeking a highly motivated Practice Partner - Quality Rating Scale. Through collaboration between our centre teams and Centre Support Office, we strive to deliver teaching and learning that consistently meets and exceeds these standards.

Practice Partners – QRS play a key role in this, guiding centres through accurate self-assessments, building capability, and driving practice uplift to ensure every child benefits from high-quality early learning experiences.

The National Quality Framework is the statutory document that underpins early childhood education and care in Australia. This includes the Early Years Learning Framework, or approved learning framework, and the National Quality Standards that are designed to bring clarity for centres in their understanding of the factors that most effectively support all children’s learning and development, and against which centres are regulated.

Your Impact:

• Lead in safety, compliance, and child protection so every centre meets legal obligations and upholds the highest standards of care and protection for children. Be the first point of call for regarding the Quality Rating Scale and its application through areas of development in supporting practice uplift across all centres
• Support the delivery of on-demand, virtual coaching and advice for all roles regarding the QRS.
• Build sustainable capability in centre teams through rich and reflective conversations with centre teams about their QRS self-assessment and moderation.
• Assure and validate the centre’s self-assessment, sharing observations that add insights to the self- assessment with Lead Practice Partners.
• Work with Specialists to identify trends and insights surfaced through inquiries, QRS data ensuring the evolving teaching and learning for all children needs of our Goodstarters are being met.
• A point of assurance in the delivery of teaching and learning against the QRS scales and items.

What Goodstart can offer you:

• Be part of a national organisation committed to delivering the National Quality Framework to an exceeding standard across all centres.
• Build collaborative partnerships with centre teams and engage in ongoing coaching and development opportunities.
• Contribute to ambitious organisation-wide quality goals, including lifting NQS and QRS outcomes.
• Join a culture that values psychologically safe, authentic connection, with a small, supportive team around you.
• Not-For-Profit Salary Packaging benefits which reduce your taxable income to increase take home pay.
• Car allowance to support travel.
• Mobile phone provided.
• Access to discounted childcare (up to 15%).
• 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.
• Discounted health care and access to employee wellbeing program with BUPA.
• Exclusive discounts on travel, gym memberships, Apple and Dell products, and more.

You’ll bring to the table:

• Minimum 4-year Early Childhood qualification from a recognised university.
• At least 5-years practice-based early childhood education experience (aged birth to 8 years).
• Sound knowledge of the Early Years Learning Framework, other State based approved/recognised learning guidelines and the National Quality Standard.
• Sound understanding of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
• A current and valid Working with Children Check/Police Clearance in accordance with relevant State or Territory legislation.

How to apply:

• Click ‘Apply Now’ and submit your application.
• Please apply directly through our website to be considered for this position.

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.

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.