About this job
About Our School:
Taabinga State School is located in Kingaroy - 200km northwest of Brisbane. With an enrolment of 380 children we are an innovative learning community that engages students in meaningful learning experiences.
The school has a strong, inclusive education focus, highly proficient teachers, strong leadership, and exceptional support staff, ensures an environment that is focused on delivering high quality, successful learning for our children every day.
The staff have high expectations for our students and are committed to continually improving their outcomes. We pride ourselves on creating positive partnerships with our families to ensure brighter futures for our students.
Your 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.
This is a temporary fulltime position for a period of 12 months, unless otherwise determined.
The Successful Applicant Will:
- 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.
What You Bring:
- 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.
Interested? To Apply:
- Attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should be familiar with your relevant work history).
- Attach a written statement (2-page maximum) to these questions:
- 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.