Practice Partner
Goodstart Early Learning
Townsville, Northern QLD
Childcare & Outside School Hours Care (Education & Training)
Part time
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Make a real impact in early childhood education by joining Goodstart as a Practice Partner in Townsville—supporting local educators, lifting quality across centers, and helping every child thrive through targeted, hands-on coaching and expert guidance.
Role: Practice Partner
Location: Townsville Qld (on the traditional lands of the Bindal and Wulgurukaba covering Regional QLD
Employment Type: Permanent Part-Time (0.8 FTE; 4 days per week = Mon - Thurs)
Goodstart Early Learning is currently seeking a dedicated Practice Partner. You will be a critical enabler of the state's practice uplift goals, providing coaching and advice on all matters pertaining to quality Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC), ensuring the delivery of nationally consistent and targeted teaching and learning support.
In this hands-on role, you'll use your expertise to coach and support center teams, strengthening teaching and learning practices, including for children with additional needs. You'll provide guidance on all aspects of quality ECEC, ensuring nationally consistent and targeted teaching and learning support to help centers achieve excellence.
Your Impact:
Provide on-demand, high quality, consistent and effective advice and coaching support for teaching and learning for all children
Work directly with a selected group of centers in the delivery of their Quality Improvement Plan actions in a coaching and modeling capacity to build sustainable teaching and learning for all children's capability in our center teams.
Support the implementation and center-based improvement of the QRS, the NQS, the EYLF, and other approved learning frameworks across your state, with a particular focus on high-priority centers identified by the state manager.
Maintain currency and expert knowledge of QRS, NQF, NQS, EYLF, appropriate state learning frameworks, and Australian Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) practice.
Work collaboratively with the broader Teaching and Learning for All Children team to identify, develop, and implement key practice uplift initiatives and strategies.
Collaborate with cross-functional specialists to co-design, implement, and monitor the effectiveness of continuous improvement initiatives.
Maintain a thorough knowledge of relevant child protection law matters applicable to the jurisdiction and a proactive response to child protection matters.
Develop and maintain working relationships with the operations team to support safety outcomes for the region and across the state.
What Goodstart can offer you:
· 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 (As arranged with your line manager)
· 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's 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
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
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