Driving quality. Strengthening practice. Improving outcomes.
About the Role
A role where you help turn standards and systems into real impact - supporting great practice, strong evidence, and better outcomes for children, young people, and families
across Parkerville.
As the Senior Officer – Standards and Accreditation, you’ll coordinate accreditation and
quality activities across Community Services, helping teams confidently demonstrate great practice in action. You’ll maintain key quality systems, support staff to use them well, and provide reporting and insights that drive continuous improvement and accreditation readiness.
You’ll oversee Standards Performance Pathways, helping staff engage with the system in a
practical way. Working with service teams, the Practice Lead, and Cultural
Practice Lead Group, you’ll ensure practice, documentation, and evidence align
with Quality Service Standards and accreditation requirements.
You’ll also coordinate key accreditation and quality reviews, including NSQMHCMO
Accreditation, Child Safe Principles, Better Care Better Services Standards,
and other requirements - supporting safe, high-quality service delivery across Parkerville.
This is a 0.6 FTE fixed term role until June 2027. You will be based in
Burswood, with travel required across sites to operational demand.
You bring:
Why Join Us?
Additional Information
Parkerville Children and Youth Care has zero tolerance for alcohol and
drugs.
Applications close at 4:00pm on Monday, 8th June 2026, however
applications will be assessed as they are received and the vacancy may close
earlier.
Please contact Sarah Lewis via email on sarah.lewis@parkerville.org.au if you would like more information.
Parkerville Children and Youth Care is committed to keeping
children safe and requires all staff to comply with its Code of Conduct and
Safeguarding Practice and Behaviour Requirements.
The role also requires participation in organisational and
role-specific compliance training, and the ability to undertake other
reasonable duties as directed by line management, Senior Leadership Group, or
CorpEx.
Parkerville Children and Youth Care is committed to child safety, inclusion, and creating a respectful workplace for all.
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.
