Professional Learning Specialist. Permanent Full Time - Flexible Location

About the?Organisation 

Make a real difference in the lives of vulnerable Australians with this unique opportunity to provide both corporate expertise and community support. With a focus on people, not profit, Life Without Barriers’ corporate services team partners with our direct support staff, clients, and their families to ensure we continue our mission to change lives for the better.  If a truly inclusive, collaborative, and fast-paced work environment sounds like your next career move, this is an opening not to be missed.

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose, not for profit organisation of 8,000 employees working in more than 500 communities across Australia. We support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people and people with mental illness. We work with people who are homeless and refugees and asylum seekers.??   

We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each client's individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply. 

About the role 

Joining a national team within our Centre for Practice Excellence, you will lead the co-design, facilitation and delivery of professional learning in order to develop the capability of our disability and mental health workforce, ensuring the people we support are at the centre.

The successful candidate will be confident in facilitating learning and delivering training. An understanding of or previous experience in the community services sector will be beneficial. This is a permanent full-time position that can be based anywhere in our national foot print with flexibility to work from home. However, travel will be required to provide training in person.

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate and deliver learning and development activities in person and virtually
• Work with subject matter experts to design learning aligned with organisational needs
• Support frontline leaders to develop confident and skilled, person-centred teams
• Stay up to date on relevant sector practices
• Implement evidence informed learning practices in all learning activities
• Contribute to the evaluation of learning delivery, ensuring ongoing best practice

Skills & Experience

• Experience in delivering interactive, engaging and effective learning
• Confident in public speaking and high-level facilitation skills
• Previous experience (or a strong interest) in the disability and mental health sectors
• Comfortable with technology and delivery of online learning
• Understanding of learning principles, design and delivery
• Relationships focus and ability to lead co-design processes with varied stakeholders
• Current drivers licence

Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check.

To be considered for and appointed to a position at Life Without Barriers, you must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 with a minimum of two (2) doses or hold a valid medical exemption certificate, in accordance with Life Without Barriers Employee COVID-19 Vaccination Policy. You will be required to provide evidence of your vaccination status during the recruitment process.

Benefits

• Do work that matters and have a positive impact on the lives of vulnerable people
• Join a team of collaborative learning professionals with varied experience
• Work with and learn from a wider national team of subject matter experts
• Flexible working arrangements, including work from home
• Contribute to varied learning projects, including continued role out of active support
• Up to $15,900 of your annual salary tax free through salary packaging
• Access to discounts on private health insurance, car servicing, restaurants and more!
• Monthly rostered days off (think 12 extra long weekends a year!)

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How to Apply 

Include your resume and covering letter in one document, click ‘Apply’ and follow the prompts. For any enquiries including persons with disability that require adjustments, contact recruitment@lwb.org.au  
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Applications close at midnight on Sunday the 18th of February, 2024.