State Practice Lead

**Role**: State Practice Lead

**Location**: NSW North

**Employment Type**: Full time 40 hours

We're seeking a highly motivated Pedagogy and Practice / National Quality Framework specialist and leader, known at Goodstart as State Practice Lead, who is focused on developing and supporting their people to make the difference to children and families every day, by creating dynamic and engaged teams across their area.

As a State Practice Lead you will be in the forefront as a leader of the State’s practice improvement team, providing leadership on all matters pertaining to quality Early Childhood Education and Care, ensuring the delivery of the nationally consistent and targeted teaching and learning support. Through leadership and advocacy, you will be accountable for ensuring the Practice Team will be sufficiently equipped to support the quality practice uplift journey and the delivery of the National Quality Standards and Early Years Learning Framework to an exceeding standard.

In order to be successful in this role, you will need to be based in Northern NSW in order to support the centres within your remit and so must be prepared to undertake regular travel. As there is no line management to the centre teams, you will have exceptional coaching and influencing skills and be able to guide and support centres on their practice journey. You will need to be a self-starter, who can work in an autonomous way and can keep pace with a busy workload with competing priorities.

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.
Escalate to State Managers any Practice needs of centres that are surfacing through the Helpdesk that require support beyond what can be provided via the phone or the Partners, and advocate for a timely and effective solution that meets the centre’s needs.
Lead the Practice Partners to ensure the delivery of high quality and consistent Practice across centres, delivered through effective coaching and modelling in order to build sustainable teaching and learning capability in our centre teams.
Provide leadership, coaching, and co-ordination of state practice improvement teams supporting centres to lift practice through the use of Environmental Rating Scales (ERS), nationally and state accredited Early Learning Frameworks such as the Early Years Learning Framework and the National Quality Standards.

Connect and observe the teaching and learning for all children strategies within the centres and provide leadership and support to ensure service quality throughout.
Work with Leads and Specialists across the Teaching and Learning for All Children Expert Service (and cross-functionally) to ensure our offers continue to meet the evolving needs of our children, families, and centre teams, as identified through data, evidence and insights.
Support the development and implementation of National initiatives, plans and professional development designed to improve the organisation’s quality outcomes

**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.
Sound understanding of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
A current and valid Working with Children Check/Police Clearance in accordance with relevant State or Territory legislation.

What Goodstart can offer you

Salary Sacrifice - Novated Lease, AccessPay, Childcare Fees, Purchased Annual Leave
Childcare Discounts of 15%
Paid Wellbeing days
Paid Parental leave - up to 4 weeks
Discounted health care and access to employee wellbeing program with BUPA of 8%
Exclusive discounts on travel, gym memberships, Apple and Dell products, and more.

We’re Goodstart

At Goodstart, we’re all about laying the foundation for better lives through amazing early learning experiences, and we know that we can’t do that without great people

From our centre directors to centre teams, we work together to make a real difference for children in those crucial early years. As a not-for-profit with a vision for Australia’s children to have the best possible start in life. Safety, health and wellbeing are more than just words to us, they are a personal commitment and a promise we make to our children, our families and each other every day.

**How to apply**:
Supporting our people and protecting our children

We are an equal opportunity employer that is proud of our inclusive and div