About the Role
You came to learning and development because you believe that how people grow matters. You understand that in organisations like ours, the quality of learning within directly shapes the quality of care experienced outside it.
Parkerville Children and Youth Care is building something. Our newly established Centre of Excellence in Trauma Response is our commitment to leading the sector in integrated trauma-informed practice - through research, innovation, advocacy, and professional learning. We're looking for the person who will lead that professional learning stream.
This is not a training administration role.
You will design and deliver professional learning across the whole organisation, curate and host our annual conference, develop external training offerings for sector partners, and lead the establishment of a Registered Training Organisation over the next three years. You will sit within
the Centre's collective leadership team, who report to the CEO, and help shape what this function becomes - not simply inherit what already exists.
About You
The right person for this role brings genuine expertise in adult learning, can hold operational rigour while building something new, and is energised rather than unsettled by ambiguity. You understand trauma-informed practice - or you're genuinely curious about it and willing to learn. You know
the difference between training that ticks a box and learning that changes practice. And you care about that difference.
You’ll bring:
Why Join Us?
This is a full-time role based at our Burswood office, with travel required to different sites based on Training needs.
Parkerville Children and Youth Care are uniquely positioned to provide the successful applicant with the following benefits.
We hope to hear from you by 4:00pm, Monday 18th May. Applications will be assessed on a regular basis, and we may not wait until the closing date before you hear from us. We reserve the right to close the position earlier.
If you would like to organise a time to have a chat about the role, please email recruitment@parkerville.org.au.
Parkerville Children and Youth Care Inc. complies with the National Principles for Child Safe Organisations and is committed to fostering a safe, inclusive, and respectful workplace for all.
Parkerville is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome applications from people of all genders, sexualities, ages, religions, abilities, and cultural backgrounds. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are encouraged to apply.
The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) has been providing outstanding care for Victoria's children and their families for over 147 years.
We are the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria and our care extends to children from Tasmania, southern New South Wales and other states around Australia and overseas.
With a passionate, highly skilled and committed staff campus wide of over 5,000, we provide a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people.
We are the designated state-wide major trauma centre for paediatrics in Victoria and a Nationally Funded Centre for cardiac and liver transplantation.
When it comes to training and research we partner with the very best. Our campus partners, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) and The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, along with the RCH Foundation, are on site with the hospital in Parkville. Together, we are committed to improving the health outcomes for children today and in the future.
In 2016–17, more than 85,654 children attended our Emergency Department, 322,291 specialist clinic appointments were held which was almost 70,000 more than the previous year, more than 17,000 surgeries were performed and more than 48,552 children were admitted to our wards.
