Family Support Coordinator - Goodna Special School, Education

Queensland Government; Ipswich City; On-site; AUD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Queensland Government invites applications for a Family Support Coordinator at Goodna Special School in the Education Ipswich region. You will collaborate with teachers, staff and external partners to support safe, welcoming learning environments and help children transition from early childhood services.

You will connect families with health, therapeutic and development services, support attendance and engagement, and build formal networks with service providers to reduce barriers to learning.

Responsibilities

• Implement structured and long-term collaboration with external partners to drive positive outcomes for families and children to engage successfully with learning.
• Work with teachers, aides and specialists to connect families with health, therapeutic and developmental services.
• Build and sustain partnerships with students, parents, school staff, government agencies and community services.
• Provide expertise on vulnerable children and families to support engagement in learning and improve outcomes.

Job description

Our school provides the highest possible quality of educational programs for the students who attend the school. The school has an explicit agenda to improve the quality of teaching and to lift the level of learning achievement by our students.

We have a range of specialist subject areas that include Health and Physical Education, Science, Technologies (Bush School), and The Arts (Visual and Performing). All students engage with the Australian Curriculum Version 9.0 as well as a focus on teaching functional literacy and numeracy in order to equip our students with skills that will assist them throughout their lives.

Your opportunity:

As the Family Support Coordinator, you will work with classroom teachers, school support staff, Early Childhood Coordinators (where available) to establish safe, welcoming learning environments.

Coordinators will assist the school team to support children and families successfully transition into school from early childhood services, facilitate access to learning or engagement support to help establish positive patterns of school attendance, behaviour and engagement in learning and link families to external government and non-government supports and services to reduce barriers to learning for students.

Responsibilites include, but are not limited to:

• Implement structured and long-term collaboration with a diverse range of external partners to drive positive outcomes for families and children to engage successfully with learning and strengthen relationships with parents and carers to facilitate improvement in student attendance, behaviour and engagement in learning.
• 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.
• Build and sustain positive relationships and effective partnerships with students, parents, school staff, government agencies and community services and provide expert input into decision making processes to ensure optimum outcomes for children and their families.
• Bring expertise into school communities about vulnerable children and families and their needs to facilitate engagement in learning and improved learning outcomes.
• Identify a diverse range of external partners and assist in the establishment of a formal network for support providers and partners.
• Connect families and children with services and supports, in the school and externally, that promote access to a range of services in a coordinated and planned way.
• Build local capability within schools to strengthen engagement with students and families, improve the quality of classroom learning adjustments and broker multi-agency support.
• Respond to individual student needs to provide student and family support to transition to school, establish good patterns of attendance and behaviour and maintain engagement in learning.

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.

Family Support Coordinator - Goodna Special School, Education Ipswich, Australia