Lead Practice Partner

**Role**: Lead Practice Partner

**Location**: To cover South Australia / Northern Territory

**Employment Type**: Permanent - Full Time

With 16,500 Goodstart 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 teams to our support teams, we work together to make a real difference for children in those crucial early years.

Our vision, at Goodstart, is building the Teaching and Learning for ALL Children team as an “Expert Service” as a defined on-demand and responsive professional support structure, providing centres with direct access to expertise, at their point and time of need. This team provides high quality teaching, learning and practice support and development to our centre teams and the organisation. The focus for the team is supporting all aspect of universal teaching including additional needs teaching strategies as we recognise this is an essential element in effective teaching and learning delivery.

Lead Practice Partners are leaders of the National Pedagogy and Practice team. Lead Practice Partners are state based leading practice improvement team and providing leadership on all matters pertaining to quality Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC).

Through leadership and advocacy, Lead Practice Partners are accountable for ensuring the Practice Team will be sufficiently equipped to support the quality practice uplift journey and the delivery of the relevant National Quality Standards and Early Years Learning Framework v2.0 to an exceeding standard working closely with the State Manager.

**Your Impact**:
Analyse Practice data for each centre and present recommendations to State Managers on the Quality Improvement Plan Practice actions for the centre, working together to ensure a coordinated and aligned approach for centres.
Lead the Practice Partners to ensure the delivery of high quality and consistent Practice across centres, delivered through effective coaching and modelling to build sustainable teaching and learning capability in the centre teams
Provide leadership, coaching, and co-ordination of state practice improvement teams supporting centres to lift practice through the use of Quality Rating Scales, nationally and state accredited Early Learning Frameworks such as the Early Years Learning Framework v2.0 (EYLF) and the National Quality Standards (NQS).
Spend time most of their time in centres to connect with and observe the teaching and learning for ALL children strategies and environments of centre teams, as a means of assuring and validating the centre’s self-assessment.
Review the outcomes and effectiveness of practice interventions to improve service quality.
Take an active role in the State and National Leadership Teams - working collaboratively and respectively with peers.
Recognise and respond to safety issues proactively and support centres to comply with all legislation that applies to children - Child Protection, National Regulations and Workplace Health and safety.

**What Goodstart can offer you**:
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 reduce 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.
Security and stability - as Australia’s largest provider of early learning and care and a not-for-profit social enterprise, we exist purely to improve the lives of Australia’s children and their families

**You’ll bring to the table**:
Minimum 4-year Early Childhood qualification from a recognised university.
A tested track record of teaching and learning practice uplift delivery
Experience in working at a “State" or national level in practice uplift
Extensive practice-based early childhood education experience (aged birth to 8 years).
Sound knowledge of the Early Years Learning Framework, other State based approved/recognised learning guidelines and the National Quality Standard.
Experience of leading a team and being a team member.

How to apply

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