About this job
About Us:
Goondiwindi State School is a thriving primary school located on the Queensland-New South Wales border, proudly educating around 420 students from Prep to Year 6. Established in 1864, it is one of Queensland's oldest state schools and continues to be a central part of the local community.
The school places a strong emphasis on respect, inclusivity, and positive relationships, creating a safe and supportive environment where students are encouraged to achieve their best across academic, cultural, sporting, and community pursuits.
Goondiwindi State School has strong community connections with local organisations including the PCYC, Kaloma, and early childhood centres, further enriching learning opportunities and student wellbeing. With a proud history, dedicated staff, and strong community partnerships, the school provides rich opportunities for every student to succeed.
About the Role:
As the Family Support Coordinator you will assist the school to support children and families successfully transition into school from early childhood services. You will facilitate access to learning or engagement supports to help establish positive patterns of school attendance, behaviour and engagement in learning. You will link families to external government and non-government supports and services to reduce barriers to learning for students.
Responsibilities include, but not limited to:
- Work with classroom teachers, teacher aides and specialist support staff to understand the child's needs and connect families with services, such as health, therapeutic and developmental interventions to support engagement with learning.
- Work with and support the needs of vulnerable children from diverse and complex backgrounds, including First Nations young persons with disability and young persons in care.
- Build and sustain positive relationships and effective partnerships with children, families and carers, school staff, government agencies and community services, and facilitate family led decision making processes to ensure optimum outcomes for children and their families.
Highly desirable skills and experience:
- Experience working in a culturally responsive manner with culturally diverse families and students and/or a willingness to work and train in culturally appropriate approaches is essential.
- Knowledge of the regions demographic and local service providers and agency supports would be highly regarded.
- Knowledge of, or capacity to develop knowledge of the early childhood sector and transition processes would be considered beneficial for effectively supporting vulnerable families and children within this sector.
Please refer to the attached role description for any mandatory requirements for this position.
How to apply:
- Please submit a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant previous work history); and
- A 2-pg response to the below questions. When responding please consider examples of your ability to align with role requirements:
- What knowledge, skills or experience (including lived experience) can you bring to the role?
- Describe a time you worked across multiple teams, agencies and/ or services to deliver shared outcomes.
- Is there anything else you'd like to share with the panel?This should be relevant to your ability to deliver in the role.
We welcome all applicants to share any support needed to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive.
Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department.
Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.
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