Assurance Practitioner Cyf. Permanent Full Time

**Job no**: 504206
**Employment type**: Full Time
**Location**: ACT, Albury Wodonga & Murray, Blue Mountains & Central West, Coffs Harbour & North Coast, Dubbo & Central NSW, Far West & North Central NSW, Gosford & Central Coast, Goulburn & Southern Tablelands, Lismore & Far North Coast, Newcastle, Maitland & Hunter, Port Macquarie & Mid North Coast, Richmond & Hawkesbury, Sydney, Tamworth & North West NSW, Tamut, Southern Highlands & Snowy, Wagga Wagga & Riverina, Wollongong, Illawarra & South Coast, Darwin, Alice Springs & Central Australia, Katherine & Northern Australia, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Bundaberg & Wide Bay Burnett, Cairns & Far North, Gladstone & Central QLD, Hervey Bay & Fraser Coast, Ipswich, Logan, Mackay & Coalfields, Mt Isa & Western QLD, Norfolk Island, Rockhampton & Capricorn Coast, Somerset & Lockyer, Sunshine Coast, Toowoomba & Darling Downs, Townsville & Northern QLD, Adelaide, Adelaide Hills & Barossa, Coober Pedy & Outback SA, Fleurieu Peninsula & Kangaroo Island, Mt Gambier & Limestone Coast, Riverland & Murray Mallee, Whyalla & Eyre Peninsula, Yorke Peninsula & Clare Valley, Hobart, Central & South East, Devonport & North West, Launceston & North East, Bairnsdale & Gippsland, Ballarat & Central Highlands, Bendigo, Goldfields & Macedon Ranges, Dandenong, Epping, Geelong & Great Ocean Road, Horsham & Grampians, Sunshine, Mildura & Murray, Melbourne, Morning Peninsula & Bass Coast, Shepparton & Goulburn Valley, Taralgon & La Trobe Valley, Yarra Valley & High Country, Perth, Albany & Great Southern, Broome & Kimberley, Bunbury & South West, Geraldton, Gascoyne & Midwest, Kalgoorlie, Goldfields & Esperance, Mandurah & Peel, Northam & Wheatbelt, Port Hedland, Karratha & Pilbara
**Categories**: Child, Youth & Family, Practice & Quality
- **Flexible working arrangements**:

- **Competitive salary + 11.5% super**:

- **Monthly rostered day off**:

- **Work for one of Australia's largest social purpose organisations**

**About the Organisation**

Every day, Life Without Barriers provides support and care to children and young people, as we work collaboratively with families, carers, and communities, to ensure they have the environment they deserve to grow. With a focus on ensuring safety and respect, this is an opportunity to make a positive and meaningful difference in these young lives and help pave a brighter future.

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose organisation of 8,000 employees working in more than 500 communities across Australia. We support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people and people with mental illness. We work with people who are homeless and refugees and asylum seekers. Join a community of people dedicated to breaking down barriers.

We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each client's individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.

**About the role**

The purpose of the **Assurance Practitioner** is to implement, monitor and improve systems and processes achieve and maintain great service delivery and comply with internal and external policy, standards, and practice.

Reporting to the Practice Assurance Business Partner the Assurance Practitioner role is part of a National Practice Assurance Team responsible for supporting the Child, Youth and Families teams to deliver great services in our communities. The position works collaboratively with client services and other business areas to implement a consistent, effective, and efficient approach to safeguarding, quality management and other practice assurance initiatives.

This a is **permanent full-time** role that can be based anywhere in Australia, providing support to our CYF NSW teams. Flexible working arrangements, such as, working from home can be discussed as part of the recruitment process. This role will require travel to assist with internal and external audits.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Build and maintain positive and professional working relationships with corporate business areas, Client Services and other key stakeholders and partners
- Prepare advice and provide direct and indirect support and tools to implement legislation, standards, contracts, policy and procedure requirements and safeguarding practices.
- Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement through listening, learning, innovation and responding to stakeholder needs
- Undertake internal audits, root cause analysis and continuous improvement processes.
- Actively identify systemic issues, share best practice and improvements.
- Assist in the development of policies, procedures, practice improvements and tools
- Provide direct and indirect support and advice on practice approaches to integrate safeguarding and risk management into core business activity
- Coordinate and undertake internal audits in accordance with the Internal Audit Program
- Contribute