Professional Learning Specialist. Permanent

3 weeks ago


Gold Coast, Australia Life Without Barriers Full time

**Job no**: 502574

**Employment type**: Full Time

**Location**: Newcastle, Maitland & Hunter, Sydney, Wollongong, Illawarra & South Coast, Darwin, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Townsville & Northern QLD, Adelaide, Hobart, Dandenong, Melbourne, Perth

**Categories**: Child, Youth & Family, Practice & Quality
- **Work for a leading social purpose organisation**:

- **Hybrid working model - work from your local LWB office and home**:

- **Location - this is a national role that can be located anywhere in Australia.**

**About the Organisation**

Make a real difference in the lives of vulnerable Australians with this unique opportunity to provide both corporate expertise and community support. With a focus on people, not profit, Life Without Barriers’ corporate services team partners with our direct support staff, clients, and their families to ensure we continue our mission to change lives for the better. If a truly inclusive, collaborative, and fast-paced work environment sounds like your next career move, this is an opening not to be missed.

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose, not for profit organisation of 8,000 employees working in more than 500 communities across Australia. We support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people and people with mental illness. We work with people who are homeless and refugees and asylum seekers.

We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each client's individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.

**About the role**

Exciting opportunity for an experienced Child Youth and Family Professional Learning specialist to join our Professional Learning Team. This team is an integral part of the CYF Centre for Practice Excellence focussed on support our staff to build their knowledge and skills and implement evidence-based practice.

As a member of the CYF Centre for Practice Excellence, the purpose of the Professional Learning Specialist - Child and Family is to design and deliver highly effective programs of professional learning across the full suite of CYF roles and range of services in the Children, Young People and Families Directorate.

The role is responsible for implementing relevant professional learning experiences to develop the capability of our workforce by ensuring they are evidence informed and have the knowledge, skills and attributes to serve our clients.

This is a permanent full-time position, location flexible anywhere in Australia. Some travel will be required to deliver training.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Model best practice in all learning and development activities.
- Create, deliver, review and evaluate a CYF professional learning curriculum and approaches to develop and embed CYF practice that enables our staff to deliver positive outcomes for our clients
- Ensure learning and development materials and activities:

- align to organisational strategic intent and evidence informed models, approaches and practice elements
- meet the needs our staff and the impact we want to have with our clients by ensuring they can be delivered by a range of learning channels, and result in effective learning transfer
- Contribute to, deliver, and report on training which meets the needs of stakeholders and managed through the Learning Management System (LMS).
- Actively contribute to relevant professional learning projects and initiatives in partnership with internal and external stakeholders.
- Capture relevant CYF professional learning program design and delivery data in relevant data management systems.
- Prepare training materials for delivery
- Participate in the collection and analysis of data for reporting on performance and contributing to CARE, TCI and other evidence-based program fidelity.

**Skills & Experience**
- Child and family relevant tertiary qualification for example psychology, social work, human services or other relevant field.
- Extensive knowledge and skills in child protection
- Extensive experience in developing a range of professional learning approaches for people working in child and family services, especially in a child protection setting
- Demonstrated experience implementing teaching, coaching and facilitation skills to ensure effective learning transfer opportunities in both face to face and online settings.
- Extensive knowledge of children, young people and family practice, including knowledge of contemporary child protection approaches.
- Completion of CARE and TCI training, or willingness to do so with support from LWB
- Proven collaborative problem-solving skills, and ability to think laterally and strategically.

**Benefits**
- Flexible location
- Rostered days off
- Salary Sacrificing

**Applications close at midnight on Sunday 12**th** of November.**
- To be considered for and appointed to a position at Life Without Barriers, you must



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