Early Childhood Coordinator
3 days ago
**About the role**
- Your contribution within this role is to ensure high-quality delivery of that promotes wellbeing, safety, and resilience of children and families. This role focuses on enhancing family capacity, fostering community connections and building confidence in accessing support services and early childhood education._
**Pay rate - $43.08 per hour (SCHADS Level 4) plus superannuation plus salary packaging available**
This role involves but not limited to
- Actively seek out vulnerable children and families who are not currently accessing early childhood services, connecting them to culturally appropriate Kindergartens, Child Care Centres, and Playgroups.
- Engage with families respectfully and authentically, supporting their ongoing engagement with services and facilitating smooth transitions to school.
- Conduct assessments with families to understand their needs and goals, and collaboratively develop intervention and support plans to address these needs.
- Support families by offering referrals and practical help to access health checks, immunisations, playgroups, and Kindergarten programs, as well as targeted and specialist services to address specific learning and developmental needs.
- Collaborate with local community members, including Elders and organisations, to align services with community needs.
**About you**
As the successful applicant, you will possess:
- Diploma in Early Childhood, Education, Social Work, Social Sciences, Psychology, or a related field from a recognized institution, along with substantial relevant experience and knowledge in early childhood services
- Knowledge of First Nations cultures and historical and contemporary impacts, with a commitment to respectful culturally safe engagement and practices.
- Current and valid Queensland Provisional Green (P2) or above Driver Licence
- Current and valid Paid Blue Card (Queensland Working With Children Check) or ability to apply
- Current vaccination against whooping cough or willingness to obtain it before starting
- Willingness to provide in-home based services to families
**Why Mercy Community**
Mercy Community is a Catholic not-for-profit that provides a wide range of services supporting families, young people and the elderly. All our work is driven by our core values of Compassion, Integrity, Dignity & Empowerment.
Being part of the Mercy Community team, means you have access to some fantastic benefits, such as:
- Increase your take home pay through the use of generous salary packaging - up to $18,550 per annum of your salary is available as a tax-free component
- Pay for your Queensland Blue Card and NDIS Worker Screening Card when you need - saving you up to $144 if you need both cards
- Provide you and your immediate family free, professional and confidential counselling services including specialised First Nations counsellors
- Free annual influenza and/or other vaccination reimbursements
- Benyfits - is an employee benefits program designed to help you save money on living costs
We also ensure all our employees have access to a wide variety of excellent learning and development tools to continue your professional and personal development. This includes making sure you have access to a range of other career pathways and opportunities across Mercy.
- Mercy Community Services is a Circle Back Initiative Employer and commit to respond to every applicant._
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