Family Support Coordinator - East Ayr State School and Home Hill State School

Description:

An exciting opportunity is available for a Family Support Coordinator to work across East Ayr State School and Home Hill State School.

We are seeking a dedicated and committed individual to lead family support and engagement from Pre-Prep to Prep, and to provide ongoing support from Prep to Year 2 within our diverse and complex communities.

In this role, you will assist families in accessing engagement programs, support services, and community resources while building strong connections with external stakeholders. You will support positive attendance, behaviour, and learning outcomes by connecting families with services that help remove barriers to education.

A key component of this role will be identifying and supporting families to access Early Intervention Services within our community.

About The School

East Ayr State School develops every child's potential through quality learning experiences in the classroom and beyond. Students enjoy a wide range of cultural, sporting, and academic opportunities, while our team supports the vision of creating clever, skilled, and creative Queenslanders. Proud of our tradition of excellence, students wear their uniforms with pride and embrace our motto, Strive for Success , as they grow academically, personally, and socially. At East Ayr, we value safety, respect, responsibility, and learning, ensuring every student can achieve their personal best.

Home Hill State School provides a supportive and engaging environment where every student is known, valued, and encouraged to reach their full potential. Our dedicated staff deliver a well-rounded education with challenging learning experiences and a wide range of arts, cultural, and sporting opportunities. As a Positive Behaviour for Learning school, we promote respect, care, and responsibility in all areas. We also value strong partnerships with families, inviting parents, grandparents, and relatives to actively contribute to school life and share their skills with our community.

About The Role

As the Family Support Coordinator, you will assist the school in supporting children and families to successfully transition from early childhood services into school. You will facilitate access to learning and engagement supports that promote positive patterns of school attendance, behaviour, and participation in learning. In this role, you will connect families with external government and non-government services to help reduce barriers to student learning. Experience working in a culturally responsive manner with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, as well as knowledge of the region's demographics, local service providers, and agency supports, is highly regarded.

Your Responsibilities

As the Family Support Coordinator, your responsibilities will 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, and 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.
  
  
  

Please refer to the attached role description for the full list of responsibilities and mandatory requirements for this position.

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) in response to the attached role description.
  
  
  

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.

Occupational group Education & Training