Ers - Practice Partner

**Role**: ERS Practice Partner

**Location**: NSW - North (Covering Centres in Sydney North and Central Coast/Newcastle)

**Employment Type**: Full Time

We're Goodstart

With 16,500 "Goodstarter" 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 directors to centre teams, we work together to make a real difference for children in those crucial early years.

Our vision is the establishment of the Teaching and Learning for All Children team as an "Expert Service" within CSO, which is defined as an on-demand and responsive professional support structure, providing centres with direct access to expertise, at their point and time of need. This team will continue to provide high quality teaching, learning and practice support and development to our centre teams and the organisation. The focus for the team will also extend to support tier 1 universal additional needs teaching strategies as we recognise this is an essential element in effective teaching and learning delivery.

To achieve this vision, Goodstart Early Learning is re-imagining what is possible by evolving critical Practice roles to support teaching and learning for all children across Goodstart.

As an ERS Partner, you will be a critical enabler of the State and National practice uplift goals, providing coaching and advice on all matters pertaining to the ERS and how it enables quality Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC).

ERS Partners work in partnership with the broader Practice team to support all centres to complete accurate and reliable ERS self-assessments that further enable targeted and effective practice uplift actions.

Your Impact;
Support the delivery of on-demand, virtual coaching and advice for all roles regarding the ERS
Build sustainable capability in centre teams through rich and reflective conversations with centre teams about their ERS self-assessment and moderation.
Assure and validate the centre's self-assessment, sharing observations that add insights to the self-assessment with Practice Partners.
Work with Specialists to identify trends and insights surfaced through inquiries, ERS data ensuring the evolving teaching and learning for all children needs of our Goodstarters are being met.
Be a point of assurance in the delivery of teaching and learning against the ERS scales and items.

You'll bring to the table;
4-year Early Childhood qualification from a recognised university.
Extensive and recent practice-based early childhood teacher education experience (aged birth to 8 years).
Sound knowledge of the Early Years Learning Framework, other State based approved/recognised learning guidelines and the National Quality Standard.
Sound understanding of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Excellent communication, organisational, evaluation and team leadership skills

What Goodstart can offer you;
Car Allowance, Laptop and Phone
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 reduces 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.

**How to apply**:
Supporting our people and protecting our children

We're an equal opportunity employer that is proud of our inclusive and diverse work environment. We know that Goodstarters from diverse cultures, backgrounds and experiences strengthen our teams and help us grow. We're also deeply committed to Reconciliation and creating an environment where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People feel a strong sense of belonging and connection.

**Posting Notes**: ALEXANDRIA, SYDNEY || NSW || Australia (AU) || | SF: LI || Bachelor (ECT) 3yr || Full-Time