Lead Practice Partner

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City of Casey, Österreich Goodstart Early Learning Vollzeit

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Location:  Victoria East - working across The City of Casey, The Mornington Peninsula and The Gippsland Region of Victoria. Bunurong Country

Employment Type:  12 Month Fixed Term (Maternity leave cover), Full Time

At Goodstart, we're not just Australia's largest provider of early learning and care – we're a passionate community of 15,000 team members across more than 660 centres, dedicated to nurturing over 60,000 children every day. As a not-for-profit social enterprise, our mission is to improve the lives of Australia's children and their families.

As part of our Centre Support Team, you'll be at the core of this mission, supporting our centre teams to create impactful, high-quality early learning experiences. Your work will help shape the future, ensuring every child gets the best start in life.

Do you have the leadership skills to drive quality improvements and ensure excellence in teaching and learning support?

Join our team as a Lead Practice Partner

As a Lead Practice Partner, you will lead the State’s practice improvement team, providing expert guidance on all aspects of quality ECEC. Your role will be pivotal in delivering nationally consistent and targeted teaching and learning support.

We are looking for a dedicated leader who is committed to enhancing the quality of ECEC and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

Your Impact:

  • Provide strong leadership and advocacy for the practice improvement team.
  • Ensure the team is well-equipped to support the quality practice uplift journey.
  • Oversee the delivery of the National Quality Standards and Early Years Learning Framework to an exceeding standard.
  • Analyse practice data for each centre and present recommendations to State Managers on Quality Improvement Plan actions.
  • Lead Practice Partners to deliver high-quality and consistent practice through effective coaching and modelling.
  • Provide leadership, coaching, and coordination of state practice improvement teams, utilising Quality Rating Scales (QRS) and accredited frameworks such as EYLF and NQS.
  • Spend time in centres (approximately 25% of centres per quarter) to observe and validate teaching and learning strategies.
  • 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.
  • Free annual flu shot (optional)
  • Option to purchase extra leave for even greater work life balance
  • First Nations Support and Cultural Leave
  • 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.

You’ll bring to the table:

  • Bachelor degree in Early Childhood Education from a recognised university.
  • Extensive and recent practice-based early childhood teacher education experience (aged birth to 8 years).
  • Strong understanding of the A&R process and the Exceeding Themes
  • Experience in delivering high quality training to centre based teams
  • Experience in supporting practice uplift with centre based teams.
  • 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

How to apply

Click ‘Apply Now’ and submit your application.

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.

We strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples for all positions – for further information and support, email deadlycareers@goodstart.org.au


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.

Safety is our priority and we will take any action necessary to ensure that all children can feel safe and be safe, and are safeguarded from abuse, neglect and harm. As a Child Safe Organisation, all of our candidates must have or obtain a valid working with children check.

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