Practice Development Leader
The Role:
We are seeking a highly skilled Practice Development Leader to join our team. The successful candidate will lead the implementation of National practice development strategies that improve infant and child mental health outcomes.
Key Responsibilities:
* Design, develop, and deliver training, practice development resources, events, and guidance for practitioners, organisations, and service systems.
* Provide leadership, supervision, and mentoring to Practice Development staff, supporting their confidence and capability in delivering high-quality, evidence-informed learning and practice development initiatives.
* Work closely and collaboratively with senior leaders across Emerging Minds to ensure alignment, integration, and impact at National and State levels.
* Lead engagement with key partners and stakeholders, including professional bodies, government and non-government organisations, practitioners, and families, to ensure that workforce strategies are responsive, inclusive, and informed by lived experience and frontline practice.
Requirements:
* Demonstrated experience in working with infants and/or children, and parents.
* Demonstrated experience in a child mental health or child health and development role, and an understanding of practice strategies to improve child mental health, development and resilience.
* Demonstrated experience in the development, delivery, and evaluation of capacity building activities in relation to the mental health of infants, children, and their families.
* Experience in facilitating training and education through the principles of adult learning and expectations of accrediting professional bodies.
* Demonstrated ability to provide high quality consultancy and advisory services to management, staff, and external bodies and to establish and maintain both integrity and confidentiality in dealing with issues of a sensitive nature.
* Ability to communicate, both verbally and in writing, to a wide range of people across National jurisdictions on a range of sensitive and complex issues.
* Demonstrated understanding of mental health promotion, mental illness prevention, early intervention, and treatment as it relates to infants, children, adolescence, and families.
* Demonstrated understanding of the impact of social determinants of health and their impact on adults, families, parenting and mental health outcomes for infants and children (0-12 years).
What We Offer:
* The opportunity to contribute to National strategies to improve the wellbeing of infants, children and families.
* A modern, friendly work environment.
* 2 Days of Paid Wellbeing Leave per calendar year.
* 3 Days of Paid Christmas Leave per calendar year.
* Generous Superannuation (additional 3% employer contribution).
* Salary and Entertainment Packaging.
* Flexible and balanced working from home arrangements.
* Access to our Employee Assistance Provider.