Role: Practice & Inclusion Partner

Location: Darwin, NT

Employment Type:  Permanent Full Time

We’re Goodstart

With 16,500 “Goodstarter” team members across nearly 700 centres nurturing 70,000 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 directors to centre teams, we work together to make a real difference for children in those crucial early years.

Goodstart Early Learning is currently seeking a Practice & Inclusion Partner to join our team in Darwin. You will be a critical enabler of the Territory’s practice uplift goals, providing coaching and advice on all matters pertaining to quality, inclusive Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC). You will share your skills and experiences with centre teams as you support their teaching, learning and inclusion for all children working in an integrated and holistic way to enhance every child’s outcomes. In partnership with the Centre Director, Educators and families, you will engage and support the most vulnerable children and families and focus on targeted capacity building strategies to enhance all children’s learning.

Your Impact:

• Be the first point of call for all Goodstarters nationally through providing on-demand and responsive support, delivered virtually through our Practice and Inclusion Helpdesk.
• Share your skills and experiences with centre teams as you support their teaching and learning for all children including children with additional needs – tier 1, delivered in a manner that builds capability in our centre teams.
• Work directly with a selected group of centres in the delivery of their Quality Improvement Plan actions by coaching and modelling to build sustainable teaching and learning for all children capability in our centre teams.
• Provide specialist inclusion advice and consultancy to centre leadership teams to enable high quality targeted and intensive inclusion support in accordance with approved processes.
• Work collaboratively within the Teaching Learning and Support team, to ensure targeted and intensive strategies are implemented as intended and monitored and evaluated for effectiveness. 
• Educate, coach and support centre teams and around centre support teams to implement and review targeted and intensive inclusion strategies to meet child and family needs.
• Contribute to safeguarding children in line with organisational expectations and procedures (e.g., responding to critical incidents and child wellbeing).

You’ll bring to the table:  

• A 4yr Bachelor Degree in Early Childhood Education from a recognised university
• Demonstrated capability of supporting and coaching teams to deliver high quality, inclusive early learning.
• Extensive experience in delivering high quality, inclusive early learning (aged birth to 8 years)
• Experience in leading change and coaching high performing teams
• Comprehensive knowledge of community and government networks/ resources and proven skill in utilising these to develop partnerships, services and programs
• Comprehensive knowledge of policies, frameworks and funding supports for children and families including the Early Years Learning Framework, National Quality Standard, Inclusion Support Programme, National Disability Insurance Scheme and relevant state-based funding mechanisms
• Sound understanding of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
• Excellent communication, organisational, evaluation and team leadership skills

What Goodstart can offer you: 

• Fully Maintained Company Car or Car Allowance, Laptop and Phone
• 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.
• Be a part of a team and work environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging, inclusion and purpose
• Not-For-Profit Salary Packaging benefits which reduces your taxable income to increase take home pay
• 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.

How to apply:

Click ‘Apply Now’ and submit your application.

Please apply directly through our website to be considered for this position. 

Have a question? Contact Adonica Lee via email: alee@goodstart.org.au

Supporting our people and protecting our children 

We are an equal opportunity employer that is proud of our inclusive and diverse work environment. We support and encourage individual growth and strong teams that are made up of many different cultures and backgrounds.

We are deeply committed to Reconciliation and creating an environment where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People feel connected and a strong sense of belonging. By weaving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives through all that we do, we aim to build knowledge and a deeper understanding of our First Nations People and culture for all in our team 

Posting Notes: WULAGI, DARWIN || NT || Australia (AU) || | || Bachelor (ECT) 4yr || Full-Time