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Career Journey

A career spent close to the service.

More than twenty years across the community services, children's services and education sectors — managing Outside School Hours Services, delivering training and assessment, and writing the resources that carry it.

The Record

Where the practice was formed

Current Role

Instructional Designer and Resource Writer

ECEC and OSHC programs, resources, training and assessment

An accomplished instructional designer and resource writer with over twenty years of experience in the community services, children's services and education sectors.

Focus areas

  • Develops programs and training materials tailored to early childhood education and care and outside school hours care.
  • Delivers training and assessment for ECEC and OSHC.
  • Provides expert quality and compliance support so services align with the National Quality Framework and National Quality Standard.
  • Develops and delivers NQF training and support initiatives that help services continuously improve.
Career

Community, Children's and Education Sectors

Over twenty years of sector practice

An extensive background in the sectors the resources serve — including contributing to the delivery of services for children and young people in Out of Home Care.

Service Management

Outside School Hours Services

Service management and government grants

Managing Outside School Hours Services, with a key role in the management of government grants — the operational grounding beneath the writing.

Foundation

Diploma of Community Services and Diploma of Children's Services

Academic foundation, with a Bachelor of Psychology under way

The qualifications under the practice, with further study in psychology currently in progress.

What the Journey Built

The capabilities

What two decades inside the services adds up to at the writing desk.

Quality and Compliance

Expert support for ECEC and OSHC services to keep them aligned with the National Quality Framework and National Quality Standard.

Resource Development

Programs and training materials developed specifically for early childhood education and care and outside school hours care.

Training and Assessment

Training and assessment delivered in the same sectors the resources are written for, so the wording matches the room.

Grants and Service Delivery

A key role in the management of government grants, and a contribution to services delivered for children and young people in Out of Home Care.

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The credentials behind the resources

Two diplomas in community and children's services, and a Bachelor of Psychology currently in progress.