Intensive Support Partner - Sa & Nt

Role: Intensive Support Partner

Location: To cover South Australia

Employment Type: Permanent, Full time

With 15,000 Goodstart team members across 661 centres nurturing 63,600 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 teams to our support teams, we work together to make a real difference for children in those crucial early years.

The Intensive Support Partner is a crucial and key component in supporting centres who are in need of intensive leadership and support. The Intensive Support Partner will be an experienced Centre Director with expertise in performance turnaround in challenging situations. You will meet each Centre Team where they are at in terms of their capability and experience and support their involvement and contribution to the immediate performance goals and action plans required to course correct.

This role requires an Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) qualification to enable working in ratio if required, along with sound knowledge of the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) and National Quality Framework (NQF).

Your Impact:

• Support Centre Leadership Teams to contribute to the development and implementation of action plans to improve performance in the priority focus areas
• Work collaboratively with state and national expert services to support performance uplift and centre team capability build in the priority areas agreed with State Performance Leads
• Empower Centre Teams in their areas of individual expertise and document goals/ action plans and commitments with Centre Teams
• Provide observational data and insights to State Managers and State Performance Leads in relation to Centre Team capacity and performance to support ongoing capability build
• Grow leadership in others by recognising and developing individual and team skills and capabilities
• Use reflective practices as part of a regular routine to promote growth and adaptive thinking
• Support and coach Centre Teams to action safety recommendations and remedy compliance concerns, pulling on state and national expert services as needed
• Ensure that appropriate policies and procedures are implemented, and that safety culture exists within the centre
• Participate in Health and Safety Training and mandatory training such as Emergency Management Training

What Goodstart can offer you:

• Fully Maintained Company Car or Car Allowance, Laptop and Phone
• 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
• Not-For-Profit Salary Packaging benefits which reduce your taxable income to increase take home pay
• Access to discounted childcare (up to 15%)
• Discounted health care and access to employee wellbeing program with BUPA
• Exclusive discounts on travel, gym memberships, Apple and Dell products, and more.
• 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
• Regular social events at our head office location
• Security and stability - as Australia’s largest provider of early learning and care and a not-for-profit social enterprise, we exist purely to improve the lives of Australia’s children and their families

You’ll bring to the table:

• Hold an Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) qualification.
• Possess strong business acumen across all domains of centre performance and experience of supporting multi- site teams
• Current Open Driving License

How to apply

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We review applications as they are submitted. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible for your best chance to progress to the next stage of the process.