Early Parenting Practitioner

Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan

Job type: Part time, Casual

Organisation: Mercy Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Nursing

Reference: 21728

**Whittlesea Early Parenting Centre Early Parenting Practitioner**

We are seeking Early Parenting Practitioners to join our team at Whittlesea Early Parenting Centre (WEPC) located in South Morang.

Early Parenting Centres (EPC's) strive to support happy, healthy, safe and thriving babies and toddlers by promoting the parent-child relationship, and equipping parents with strategies to achieve their parenting goals. These goals are often in areas such as sleep and settling, child behaviour, and parent and child health and wellbeing. EPC’s recognise that the health and wellbeing of the primary caregiver, and whole family is vital to children’s development and outcomes. EPC’s provide specialist support for Victorian families with children’s aged 0-4 years.

**ABOUT THE ROLE**:
The Early Parenting Practitioner role is to:

- Provision of responsive early parenting support to families with children up to their 4th Birthday
- Actively participate as part of a multidisciplinary team to meet the complex needs of families
- Provide emotional and practical support and guidance for the health and wellbeing of children
- Employed under the Nursing and Midwifery EBA as a IB65
- Permanent Part Time 2 days per week and casual hours are available
- WEPC is open Monday to Friday and is closed on Weekends
- Shifts are Day 0700-1530, Evening 1400-2230 and Night Duty 2200-0730
- Free On-Site Car Parking
- WEPC is open 50 weeks a year with a 2 week closure over Christmas/New Year

A compressive supported orientation program is offered to all new staff.

**ABOUT YOU**:

- Relevant tertiary qualification in Early Childhood Development, at Diploma level or above
- EN (Mothercraft Nursing)
- Well-developed skills in risk and needs assessment
- Relevant discipline which supports understanding of key child development issues relating to young parents and families e.g. Diploma in Children’s service or Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood)
- If applicable, APHRA registration

**ABOUT US**

Mercy Health is a Catholic organisation grounded in a 2,000-year tradition of caring for others. Founded by the Sisters of Mercy, Mercy Health is made up of more than 9,500 people who provide acute and subacute hospital care, aged care, mental health programs, maternity and specialist women's health services, early parenting services, home care services and health worker training and development.

Mercy Health is proud to be recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the WGEA.

**WHAT WE OFFER**:
Mercy Health recognises that people are searching for meaning in their work life and finding a workplace that connects with their values is a key motivation when choosing an employer. As a not-for-profit healthcare provider, Mercy Health has a strong mission and clear values that guide us in everything we do. We pride ourselves on:

- caring for our people and those important to them with generous employee assistance available for employees and their families
- protecting children and vulnerable people in all our services, by listening to them and having zero tolerance of any form of abuse and neglect
- taking a stand against climate change, which is one of the biggest threats to the health of the world and all humanity, and committing to action that will help make our world fairer and more sustainable
- offering benefits such as generous salary packaging, purchased leave, career progression and development opportunities, access to health and wellbeing programs and a range of discounts across a diverse portfolio of financial, healthcare, travel and other services.

**WHAT YOU WILL NEED**:

- Proof of vaccination status consistent with public health orders and with Mercy Health’s policy (includes but is not limited to COVID-19 and seasonal influenza vaccination compliance requirement).

If you have any questions or require any adjustments to ensure a fair and equitable interview and selection process please contact us on the details below.

**CONTACT DETAILS**:

- Anna Seaborn Manager / Director of Nursing Whittlsea Early Parenting Centre