Early Childhood Intervention Practitioner

Posted: 01/03/2023

Closing Date: 29/03/2023

Salary: $77,000.00 - $83,000.00

Job Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Narre Warren

Job Category: Community Services and Development

Are you an early childhood educator looking for your next meaningful role? Do you have the drive to work with and learn from some of the most skilled Allied Health professionals within the disability sector? If you answered with a resounding YES, then read on about this wonderful opportunity

Windermere’s **Early Childhood Intervention Practitioners** **/ Key Workers** (ECIPs) provide services to children aged 0-7 years who have a disability or developmental delay. As a registered service provider under the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and with more than 20 years’ of service delivery experience, a dynamic team ready for change and market presence in some of Australia’s fastest growing regions, Windermere are in a prime position for NDIS success. We want to share this with you.

**About The Role**

We are currently seeking a permanent full-time **ECIP** to join the Early Intervention Therapy Services (EITS) team. As an ECIP, you will utilise the Key Worker model to provide a range of targeted early childhood therapy services to children aged 0-7 years. Your core focus will include:

- Provide quality transdisciplinary Early Childhood Early Intervention (key worker) services to children aged 0-7 years and their families
- working in partnership with families in the natural environment to encourage children’s active participation in everyday routines;
- helping children to learn new skills by developing meaningful goals and providing strategies that are comprehensive and well-planned;
- delivering flexible and personalised therapy that is fundamental to children’s specific needs, and
- aiding consumers to navigate complex service systems to identify appropriate information and support.
- Provide supervision and support to students providing regular feedback on their performance.

Windermere has developed a hybrid model of working including working remotely from home and meeting with consumers within our offices in Berwick, Cranbourne and Pakenham.

**Desired Skills and Experience**:
**About You**:
You will have a Bachelor in Early Childhood Education and will have demonstrated experience working with children with additional needs in an education setting as well as having worked collaboratively with Early Intervention or Allied Health Practitioners. You are organised, adaptable and enterprising in your practice. You are open to change, embrace feedback and work collaboratively with others. You can think on your feet and make decisions quickly. You appreciate continuous quality improvement and thrive in an environment which provides you with the opportunity to work autonomously as well as part of a high performing team.

**Why Windermere?**

Windermere fosters a culture of flexibility, support and wellbeing. We have a wide range of workplace benefits including flexible work hours, gifted days off, rostered days off, Flexible Leave Scheme (50/52), 17.5% annual leave loading, study leave, generous salary packaging and the opportunity for professional development.
- 9 day fortnight (Full timers)
- Paid parental leave

Windermere is committed to equity & equality for consumers and employees, this by building diverse and inclusive services and work environments, where all peoples from Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander, CALD, LGBTIQ+ Communities and those living with disability will know and feel accepted, affirmed, safe and celebrated. Windermere is delivering this through the continued development and implementation of our Welcoming and Inclusion Strategy 2021-2024 as we seek to provide a diverse workforce at all levels.

**How to apply**

Please provide your CV and a maximum two-page covering letter briefly addressing the Key Selection Criteria outlining your interest in the position.