Parenting and Community Learning Practitioner

About the role

The Parenting and Community Learning Practitioner provides culturally safe individualised parenting support using the Mangka Parenting resource which aims to strengthen family and community capacity through co-designed learning activities. The role facilitates education for families staff and community partners by drawing on a pool of resources from Mangka to customise an individualised program or compilation of learning materials that best address individual family and community needs. This also extends access to resources beyond Family Support Service to enhance community-wide capacity. Based in Darwin with the ability to travel to Perth and the Pilbara the role promotes intergenerational healing through trauma-informed culturally safe support that contributes to improved social and emotional wellbeing (SEWB) and creates the secure foundation needed to raise strong happy and healthy kids

This is a Full-Time opportunity based in Darwin NT within our Family Support Service program. The position reports to the Coordinator Family Support Service.

Key Selection Criteria:

To be successful in this role the incumbent will have:

• A knowledge and understanding of Aboriginal culture and values and Aboriginal ways of parenting; within a collective culture with deep connections to their kinship community and country.
• An appropriate qualifaction in human services and/or equivalent experience and skills. A combination of equivalent study and experience including Aboriginal people with lived and professional experience will be considered.
• An awareness of the current issues faced by Aboriginal children young people and their families.
• Demonstrated experience engaging with Aboriginal families and local organisations; ability to build respectful relationships.
• Understanding of trauma impacts and a commitment to trauma informed culturally safe practice.

Please address the full Key Selection Criteria outlined in the PD as part of your application.

For a full position listing please click APPLY. The Position Description is available for review at the bottom of the page.

For more information please contact:

Loretta Starkey at

Our offer:

• Generous Salary Packaging (helps increase your take home pay)
• Ongoing Career Development Education and Training
• Employee Assistance Program free and confidential counselling coaching and emotional support for work and personal challenges
• ClickHEREto find out more about becoming a member of the MacKillop Family Services team and what further support we have to offer our employees.

You must have a:

• Valid and current Drivers Licence;
• Satisfactory Criminal History Check (paid for by MacKillop);
• Valid Employee Working with Children Check;
• Valid and current NDIS Workers Screening Check (for risk assessed / client facing roles). MacKillop can assist successful candidates with their application.

Our Commitment:

MacKillop celebrates and draws strength from diversity and respects the dignity of all person at MacKillop has the right to be safe and to be treated justly. We value every persons ability cultural or linguistic backgrounds ethnicity sexual orientation gender identity gender expression intersex status relationship status religious or spiritual beliefs socio-economic status and age.

It is our goal that MacKillop Family Services continues to evolve as a culturally safe culturally competent and welcoming organisation to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children young people families and communities.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are strongly encouraged to apply for this position.

Shortlisting for this position may commence immediately so please submit your application as soon as possible.