Early Parenting Practitioner

**Work in an environment that offers**:

- Support for career progression and development
- An ability to live and work in a vibrant regional setting
- A strong attitude to teaching and learning

**The Position**

**Job Reference**: 1953

**Position Title**:Early Parenting Practitioner
**Classification**:XV12 - ON14 OR IB68 - IB72

**Hours per fortnight**:$2,734.00 - $3,477.60
**Hours per fortnight**:Up to**80 hours _(includes an ADO every 4 weeks)_
**Employment Status**:Ongoing Part time or Full time

**Closing date**:**20/03/2025

**The Role**

The new EPC is a dedicated facility to support mothers, fathers, parents, carers, families and their children up to four years of age. EPCs deliver a suite of core services, through a nurse-led multidisciplinary care team. High quality and safe EPC service delivery is best achieved through a workforce built on a strong nursing leadership team, including Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Nurses, that provides leadership and clinical oversight and support for the multidisciplinary clinical team.

The combined health and community services model is a strength of EPC service delivery, with a multidisciplinary team-based approach enabling the different disciplines to provide the right support and care to each family and child visiting an EPC.

EPCs recognise the health and wellbeing of mothers, fathers, parents and carers and the broader family impacts the child’s health, wellbeing and development. EPC services aim to enhance the parent-child relationship, and support mothers, fathers, parents, carers and families with strategies to achieve their parenting goals in areas like sleep and settling, parent attachment, child behaviour, and parent and child health and wellbeing. Parents and caregivers are provided with strategies to respond to the issue in real and extended time (e.g., supporting children to settle during the day or night). This is achieved through stepped up, more intensive support services, including a day stay program and residential program.

The Early Parenting Practitioner (EPP) is a valued and integral member of the EPC’s team. Working directly under the Associate Nurse Unit Manager, the EPP provides frontline care to families to assist in the establishment and maintenance of healthy parent-child relationships. The role assists parents in learning to care for their young children and themselves as parents, including establishment and maintenance of feeding, sleeping, rest, play and limit setting of behaviour, safety and hygiene.

All interventions are founded on a sound understanding of the enduring nature of attachment relationships for the healthy development of children into adulthood. The EPP establishes and maintains effective supportive, safe and welcoming learning environment for children and their parents. In addition, under supervision of the ANUM or Maternal and Child Health Nurse, they plan, organise, implement, guide and evaluate play and age-appropriate learning experiences for young children, encouraging parents to participate.

**Working with Bendigo Health**

Bendigo Health are a leader in regional health care, combining outstanding services with a strong education, training and personal development culture.

Created by our community in the 1850s, we have a long, proud history of delivering excellent care to our community.

Our organisation is diverse, welcoming and committed to delivering our vision of Excellent Care. Every Person, Every Time.

Bendigo Health has around 5000 staff and a catchment area covering a quarter of the size of Victoria. The three main campuses of Bendigo Health are in Bendigo, with many services extended to regional settings including areas such as Mildura, Echuca, Swan Hill, Kyneton and Castlemaine.
- We offer a fantastic range of benefits for our staff, including: Staff health and wellbeing programs
- Career development and education opportunities
- Generous salary packaging opportunities, to increase your take-home pay each fortnight
- Flexible Working Arrangements
- Use of staff gym and pool and access to other fitness facilities through fitness passport program

If successful for a position at Bendigo Health you must provide evidence of your full immunisation record as part of the on boarding process.

**Your New Division**

The Clinical Operations Division encompasses acute, allied health, cancer, dental and mental health services. We provide a wide range of general medical, surgical and specialty services including but not limited to; Oncology, Cardiology, Renal, Emergency, Women’s and Children’s, Critical Care, Specialist Clinics, Cancer Clinics and Mental Health Services. Our Allied Health teams provide a diverse range of programs and person centred care in inpatient, outpatient, community, home and residential care settings.

**Bendigo Region**

Bendigo is one of Victoria’s largest regional cities making it a great city to live and work in. Bendigo provides services for the region’s population of over 3