Early Childhood Practitioner

Salary:
- $89,591.84 + super + salary packaging- Location:
- Bendigo, Echuca or Gisborne- Employment Type:
- FT - Full-Time Temporary- Department:
- Early Childhood Approach - Loddon- Closing Date:
- 23 Sep 2024**The next step in your career starts here**
- Career development and professional growth opportunities
- Fantastic employee benefits and an inclusive organisational culture
- Opportunity to make an impact for children and their families

**About Intereach**
Intereach is a not-for-profit provider of rural community services, working together with children, families, older people, carers, and people with a disability throughout the Riverina Murray and Murrumbidgee regions of NSW and in the Mallee, Goulburn and Loddon regions of Victoria.
Our Vision of Strong Connected Communities is what drives us daily to ensure our local communities are at the heart of everything we do.

**About the role**
The Early Childhood Practitioner role is responsible for working alongside families with children younger than 6 years old who may have a developmental concern or delay and children younger than 9 with a diagnosed disability, to implement the NDIS Early Childhood approach.
The approach supports children and their families in developing the skills they need to participate meaningfully in daily activities and achieve the best possible outcomes throughout their lives.
- The Early Childhood Practioner works with families to;
- understand the NDIS Early Childhood approach
- understand their child’s development through information gathering, goal setting and assessment
- make informed decisions and connect them to the most appropriate community, mainstream and funded early childhood intervention supports, including supporting with NDIS access where required.
- where a child has met the access criteria to the NDIS, understand and implement their NDIS plan and support with ongoing monitoring tasks.
- where a child meets the developmental concerns criteria, provide individual family capacity building, either group or individual evidenced based intervention.
- In this role, you will also participate in regular community engagement and capacity building activities, assisting to create opportunities for greater participation and meaningful inclusion of children with developmental delay and disability and their families/carers.
- This position is a full time, fixed term 12-month position and can be based in either Echuca, Bendigo or Gisborne office.
- This position is classified under the Health Professionals and Support Services Award with an annual salary between $89,591.84 - $91,587.60 + Superannuation + Salary Packaging.

**What will you gain from this role**:

- Be part of a supportive, forward-thinking team
- Additional leave benefits including the option to purchase additional leave, volunteer leave and flex leave
- An organisation who values flexibility
- Employee Assistance program for staff and their immediate family
- Enjoy a hybrid work arrangement with both office and remote options
- Attractive salary packaging
- Gain exposure to the NDIS Early Childhood Approach
- An inclusive and positive workplace culture
- For a full list of employee benefits visit Careers - Intereach

If you’re ready to make an impact and be part of an amazing team, we can’t wait to hear from you

**Applications close 23 September 2024 at 10am.**
Ready to apply?

To be considered for this role you must upload a resume and cover letter highlighting your skills, expertise and suitability for the role.
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**For more information**:
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- As a Child Safe organisation Intereach is committed to upholding high standards of child safety in everything we do. We strive to create and maintain an environment where all children feel safe, respected._

For further information related specifically to the role please contact Kristie Comini 0499 643 811
- We value diversity and welcome applicants from all walks of life, ages, backgrounds, and cultures._