Child Development Specialist

**Multiple full time roles based on Yuggera, Yugambeh and Turrbal lands at Milton & Loganholme starting 17 March**:

- **$86-92K + Super + Salary Packaging**:

- ** WFH 50% of your week after induction**

**Our Organisation**

The Benevolent Society’s (TBS) vision is to build a just society where all Australians can live their best life. For more than 200 years we have supported people at the margins of society: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians; children, young people, and their families; older people; carers and people with disability. We are an independent, non-religious service provider which supports people to live life their way.

As part of TBS's vision, we are strongly committed to reconciliation with our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia. We remain steadfast in our commitment to promoting the economic, political, and social inclusion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

**About the role**

The Benevolent Society is a Partner in the Community for the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) and are adding additional Child Development Specialists to our growing Early Childhood Approach (ECA) team.

You will work in partnership with families and early childhood services to gather information on their child’s development. You will support families to develop, understand and implement their child’s NDIS plans. As an evolving scheme, the NDIS environment can be dynamic and fast-paced, if you are open and excited by change and love being part of creating and working through the best approach, come join us and be part of making a difference through these changes.

As a Child Development Specialist, you will help coordinate the delivery of our Early Childhood Approach Program by responding to enquiries from existing clients and families, completing administration duties and meeting with families to support them through their NDIS journey. Your keen eye for detail and responsiveness to families will be a key asset when supporting participants and their families to navigate the NDIS.

**Duties**
- Respond quickly and effectively to client enquiries, using a human-centred and strengths-based approach to build relationships
- Meeting children, caregivers and other key stakeholders in natural settings to gather information about the daily functional impacts of a child’s development or disability through a strengths-based approach
- Documenting information on a child’s development or disability to provide recommendations for supports including referrals to mainstream/community services and potential funded supports through the NDIS
- Building the capacity of caregivers to meet their child’s individual goals through providing information and education relating to early childhood development

**Our Benefits**

We support people to live their best life. That includes you, our employee. A ‘best life’ is unique to everyone and can change as life changes:

- **Salary Benefits**-You can package up to $15,900 pa of your pre-tax salary to pay for everyday expenses before income tax is calculated, meaning you take home even more pay
- **Motor Vehicle** Packaging Options
- to suit your lifestyle.
- ** Work/Life Balance**:

- Enjoy flexible work arrangements, including hybrid home/office options, and accrue an additional day off each month (a bonus of 12 days per year) as a full-time employee.
- ** Recognition & Reward**:

- Sector competitive remuneration, various recognition programs and access to long service leave after 5 years.
- **Wellness**:

- Stay fit with a Fitness passport, utilise our Employee Assistance Program, and even purchase additional leave.
- **Professional Development**:

- We tailor career development opportunities to all employees and volunteers for career enrichment, fulfilment, and growth.
- **Our Reconciliation Commitment -** Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employees are entitled up to **2 days paid plus up to 10 days unpaid cultural leave**, as well as the option to be a v**oice on**reference networking groups**, the opportunity for cultural and professional development Skills and Requirements.

**Skills and Requirements**
- Proven excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills including, active listening skills and demonstrated ability to adapt communication style and approach to the level of the audience
- Demonstrated interpersonal skills including the ability to build professional, trusting relationships quickly with awareness to CALD communities
- Demonstrated effective time and priority management skills with the ability to manage competing deadlines & stakeholders with repeated interruptions
- Proven reflective skills and tools to manage personal well-being when supporting vulnerable families including knowing when to reach out for help
- Demonstrated willingness for continuous learning being a proven self-starter, self-reflective approach to your work, and embracing feedback
- If you identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Str