Quality and Safeguarding Partner

Make an impact in a purpose-driven organisation supporting children families and communities across Tasmania.

We are a not-for-profit community-based organisation providing education and care to children from birth to 12 years of age across Tasmania. Lady Gowrie Tasmania has a simple position statement Children First and is committed to providing the highest quality education and care for children to give them the best start in life.

Were seeking a skilled Quality and Safeguarding Partner to join our collaborative People & Quality team. This role is vital to supporting our services to be child-safe compliant and continuously improving supporting best outcomes for children families and educators.

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The role:

Reporting to the Quality and Safeguarding Lead youll support quality and safeguarding processes across the organisation. Youll manage investigations coordinate the continuous improvement register support compliance with the National Quality Framework and help ensure Lady Gowrie Tasmania maintains strong child-safe and regulatory standards.

In this role you will:

• Conduct investigations and prepare clear actionable reports.
• Coordinate the central Continuous Improvement Register and corrective actions.
• Support policy and process reviews to maintain compliance with relevant legislation including the Education and Care Services National Law (Tasmania) Act 2011 National Regulations and the Child and Youth Safe Organisations (Tasmania) Act 2023.
• Provide reporting and data analysis to inform decision-making and drive improvement.
• Build collaborative relationships across services and external partners to promote best practice and information accessibility.

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What youll bring:

Youre a detail-focused professional who thrives on improving systems and building trust. Youll bring strong analytical communication and stakeholder engagement skills with a working knowledge of safeguarding quality or compliance frameworks.

• Relevant tertiary qualification (e.g. Quality Compliance Early Childhood Human Services or related field) and/or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated experience in incident management investigations or regulatory compliance.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with a collaborative approach to teamwork.
• Excellent organisational and problem-solving skills.
• Strong digital literacy and ability to learn new systems quickly
• High level of accuracy attention to detail and ability to manage competing priorities.
• Current (or ability to obtain) Tasmanian Working with Vulnerable People Registration (child-related activity).

What youll receive:

At Lady Gowrie Tasmania we recognise that supporting our people is just as important as looking after the children and families we serve. We offer a range of benefits to support your career wellbeing and worklife balance:

• Flexible working arrangements: This role is part-time (0.6 FTE) with negotiable hours and days.
• Health & Wellbeing support: Wellbeing initiatives and events annual flu vaccinations and access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your family.
• Salary packaging: up to $15900 per annum up to $2650 for meals and entertainment. Salary packaging allows you to pay for your expenses with money from your salary before tax is taken out. Pay less tax and your take home pay increases!
• Financial benefits: Access to discounts on private health insurance and major retailers plus a 15% discount on education and care fees for your children attending our services.

How to apply:

Please submit your CV and a brief cover letter telling us more about you and your experience aligned with this role by clicking the Apply Now button.

• Applications close 9am Friday 28 November 2025

We will be reviewing applications as they are received early applications are encouraged.

Lady Gowrie Tasmania is a child safe organisation. We are committed to ensuring the safety wellbeing and inclusion of all children. Our recruitment and selection processes reflect this commitment. All applicants are subject to child safety screening including reference checks and verification of Working with Vulnerable People Registration before employment can commence.

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Our commitment to inclusion

LGT strives to provide a safe and inclusive environment across our services programs and workplaces where diversity in all its forms including strengths cultural background identity and abilities are recognised and celebrated. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds people with disability members of the LGBTIQA community and anyone who shares our values and passion for supporting children families and communities.