Inclusion Support Partner

**Role**: Inclusion Support Partner

**Location**: Adelaide - SA

**Employment Type**: Part time 22.6 hours a week. Fixed Term contract - 2 years

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.

The Inclusion Support Partner is accountable to the Practice and Inclusion Helpdesk Team Leader for the provision of specialist advice on inclusive practices that is timely, and evidence based. This role will contribute to the improvement of early childhood outcomes for children experiencing vulnerability by providing specialist inclusion advice, support and coaching via the Practice and Inclusion Helpdesk, to Goodstart centre team members and around centre support teams in all states and Territories. The Practice and Inclusion Helpdesk is an on-demand and responsive professional support structure providing centres with direct access to teaching, learning, practice and inclusion expertise at their point and time of need.

Support is provided primarily through online consultations and also involves identification of the need for escalation and more intensive supports. The position is integral to Goodstart’s Inclusion for Everyone goal and supports centre teams to support and include all children with additional needs. Children with additional needs encompass those children who are experiencing vulnerability and are most at risk of poor developmental outcomes. This role has a key focus on children with developmental delays, disability, medical and behavioural needs, and takes into account other social and cultural factors such as trauma, domestic violence, poverty, neglect and abuse, unemployment, indigeneity, refugee or humanitarian status, English as a second language and so on.

**Your Impact**:
Be the first point of call for inclusion support for all Goodstarters nationally through providing on-demand and responsive support, delivered virtually.
Manage the centre teams’ inquiry from start-to-finish, drawing on Specialists within and beyond Social Inclusion as needed
Liaise with state-based Practice and Social Inclusion team members if an inquiry requires support beyond what can be delivered virtually and continue to manage the inquiry until the required support has been delivered.
Work with Specialists to identify trends and insights surfaced through inquiries, ensuring evolving inclusion needs are being met across all Goodstart centres.
Provide administrative support to enhance our inclusion support processes and systems.
Work collaboratively in a case management model with all stakeholders (internal and external) to optimise inclusion support through planning and implementing strategies together to make best use of resources and expertise, to assist Goodstart to meet its goal of Inclusion for Everyone.
Advocate on behalf of families and children to ensure high quality inclusion occurs within Goodstart centres.

**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**:
Hold a Qualification in education (early childhood) or human services with relevant sector experience - Tertiary qualifications preferred.
Previous experience in implementing inclusive practices and experience in delivering strategies within in early childhood settings.
Demonstrated current knowledge of the National Quality Standard, Early Years Learning Framework, and the Commonwealth Inclusion Support Programme (ISP).
Experience working in the Commonwealth Inclusion Support Program or in ECEI program - desirable.

How to apply

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