Location: Cranbourne, Permanent, Full-time or part time opportunities available

• Join a not-for-profit health care provider who is getting back to what matters
• Come and join us to make a life changing impact for children and their families
• Total Remuneration Package dependent on skills and qualifications
• Achieve work-life balance while progressing your career

At Latrobe Community Health Service you’ll be part of a positive and passionate workplace. We’re dedicated to providing you with career opportunities through work that is rewarding and meaningful within the community.

As an Early Childhood Coordinator you can have a life-changing impact for young children and their families. You will be part of a diverse transdisciplinary team of allied health and early childhood professionals. You will implement the NDIS Early Childhood Approach to support children under seven years of age who have a developmental delay or disability, and their families/carers. You will support families to help children develop the skills they need to take part in daily activities and achieve the best possible outcomes throughout their life.

Your role as an Early Childhood Coordinator will include providing information and linkages to mainstream and community supports, providing early connections and early supports and assisting families to request access to the NDIS (and develop an NDIS plan) where appropriate. A focus of this approach is to ensure that children receive the individualised supports they require according to their needs and circumstances.

To be successful, you will require:

• Tertiary qualification in Early Childhood or Allied Health
• A current Working with Children Check - https://www.workingwithchildren.vic.gov.au/individuals/applicants/how-to-apply
• There will be a requirement to travel across service delivery areas

Other Requirements

You will be required to undertake the NDIS Worker Screening Check if you are successful for employment with Latrobe Community Health Service.

An NDIS Workers Screening Check: www.service.vic.gov.au/services/national-disability-insurance-scheme

For more information, please contact Heather Kirkhope, Area Manager, Southern Melbourne at [email protected] using the subject line: Early Childhood Coordinator enquiry via EthicalJobs.

PLEASE NOTE: No applications will be accepted via email.

At Latrobe Community Health Service we want to help you get back to what matters. To see the full position description and to apply, click the "Apply Now" button.

We are an equal opportunity employer and therefore, we will consider all qualified applicants for employment. We are partnered with Job Access and pledged to Soldier On. We are a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally diverse backgrounds and identities, LGBTIQ+ people, people with a lived experience of disability and service personnel and their families to name a few. We will make reasonable adjustments when required. We are a child safe organisation. Successful applicants will be required to obtain a satisfactory security clearance and an Employee Working with Children Check before we can make any offer of employment.

A position description is attached.