Family Mentor

**Posted**: 16/06/2025
**Closing Date**: 31/07/2025

**Job Type**: Permanent - Part Time
**Location**: South Brisbane
**Job Category**: Therapy Services (Allied Health)
**Job Description**:
**Location**: Brisbane & Sydney
**Pay**: $41.79 - $45.58 p/hour + salary packaging + 11.5% super
Seeking passionate and compassionate Family/ Deaf Mentor's to join our team in Brisbane and Sydney. Help children and their families navigate the world as a deaf person.
Supportive and inclusive workplace within a leading NFP organisation
Salary packaging benefits to increase your take-home pay
Gain diverse experience working closely with the Deaf and HoH community
**About the role**:
The Family Mentor role is to respond to social, behavioural, cultural and language needs of deaf children and their families in natural family and community contexts through deaf lenses.
This role gives families contact with a positive Deaf Role model as early as possible in the life of a deaf child in a family setting.
It also provides the family with deaf awareness, a social and cultural model, and with the direct lived experience of navigating the world as a deaf person. The Family Mentor's role is to model visual communication, Australian Sign Language (Auslan), and strategies for communication between parent and child, and child and community.
**Main responsibilities of the role include**:
Interact with the families and children in a manner that considers the needs of the child/family first.
Ensure that families have unbiased access to the full range of communication possibilities for a deaf child, and illustrate that there are many ways of being deaf.
Support early parent bonding with deaf babies and children, creating a strong foundation for their development.
Participate in sessions of family life to empower families with a deaf perspective and with deaf tools to navigate life.
Provide visual communication tools and strategies in a responsive way within real life settings such as play, meal preparation, and conflict resolution.
Nurture first language acquisition by providing rich linguistic landscape with Auslan.
Encourage development of Theory of Mind through play and activities.
Nurture early literacy and prepare children to read through storytelling in Auslan.
Understand the language priorities and goals and needs for individual children through collaboration with therapists and teachers.
**About you**:
Deaf or Hard of Hearing
Fluent Auslan user
Well-developed linguistic and cultural experience
Well-developed interpersonal and communication skills
Enthusiasm for working with children & adults in a multi-age group family setting
Current NSW Working With Children Check or Qld Blue Card Holder
NDIS Worker Clearance
NDIS Worker Orientation Module Certificate
Current driver's license
You should also let us know if you have these other great skills:
Understanding of early childhood development and first language acquisition
**About Us**:
Deaf Connect is the largest, whole-of-life service provider and social impact organisation for Deaf, deafblind and hard of hearing Australians. We stand with the Deaf community to build capacity and influence social change while paying respect to history, culture and language.
Our organisational values of Heart, Courage, and Discovery stand with the Deaf community to build capacity and influence social change while paying respect to history, culture, and language.
**We offer an attractive benefits program including**:
Salary packaging, enabling you to make huge savings on tax and maximise your pay
Flexibility regarding working arrangements
Discount membership to gyms and facilities throughout Australia
Free annual flu vaccinations
Free comprehensive online learning portal
Free financial wellness support through our default super fund