Do you have autism-specific expertise and a deep knowledge of state school and regional processes? Do you enjoy working collaboratively with diverse teams in a fast-paced environment?
If the answer to both questions is 'yes', we would love to hear from you!
About The Department
The Department of Education is dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce that reflects the community and schools we support by treating everyone with respect and dignity. This starts with recruitment and selection. The methods of assessing suitability in the recruitment process may vary. This includes making reasonable adjustments to support applicants at all stages of the process and employee lifecycle.
About The Role
The Principal Advisor Autism plays a key role in the Autism Hub's delivery of autism-specific services and expertise across Queensland. Current knowledge of state school and regional systems and processes will be highly regarded.
Responsibilities Include
The Principal Advisor, Autism Hub will:
- Respond to incoming inquiries to the Autism Hub advisory service, ensuring that timely, consultative and evidence-informed autism-specific advice and support is provided to parents and staff from Queensland schools and other organisations.
- Provide autism-specific support directly to regions and schools when the demand for services exceeds the capacity of regional Principal Advisors Autism.
- Provide advice and support to schools with at-risk or critical incidents involving students with autism.
- Collaborate with key regional staff to ensure a coordinated approach to support schools in the implementation of inclusive, evidence-based practices to meet the learning needs of students with autism and reduce practices that create barriers to access and participation.
- Establish and cultivate effective relationships and networks with key stakeholders including school teams, parents, internal and external stakeholders.
- Coach school leadership teams to build staff capability to implement evidence-informed practices to support students with autism.
- Deliver autism-specific professional learning for school staff, regional leaders and school communities.
- Disseminate user friendly research to school communities, parents and external agencies on supporting students with autism.
- Collect and share up-to-date information on programs, services and supports for students with autism.
Interested? To Apply:
- Attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant work history);
- Attach a 2-page response addressing the Leadership Competencies on page 2 of the role description.
We welcome all applicants to share any support needed to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive.
Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department.
Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.
When working in regulated employment an employee must have a current Working with Children Clearance (blue card) issued by Blue Card Services.
Salary rate shown is reflective of full-time (1.0 FTE).
The Department of Education is a family inclusive workplace. Click here to find out more about our Inclusion and Diversity strategies.
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