About the Role Lead with purpose in a role that safeguards children and school communities within Sydney Catholic Schools (SCS). As Supervisor: Child Protection, you’ll guide a team of practitioners in managing sensitive matters and investigations, while providing expert advice to school leaders and staff to ensure compliance with child protection obligations. This is a highly collaborative leadership position, working across directorates to coordinate wraparound support and interventions that make a meaningful difference in the lives of students and their families. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: overseeing a high volume of child protection triage and casework, ensuring compliance with legislation and external agency requirements leading investigations into reportable conduct and acting as the escalation point for complex and high-risk matters strengthening school leaders’ and staff in their confidence and competency in their interactions with the team and child protection across prevention, intervention and postvention collaborating with internal teams, external investigators, and school leaders to resolve matters professionally monitoring and reporting on casework data, trends, and risks to inform continuous improvement providing supervision and responsive support to team members, including trauma-informed guidance initiating applications to the Children’s and Local Courts for Compulsory Schooling Orders in response to severe attendance issues contributing to legal processes, historical claims, and urgent matters as required preparing reports for insurance, audit, and leadership, sharing insights and recommendations analysing case trends and contributing to system-wide improvements in safeguarding practices being contactable and available out of work hours to respond to urgent matters any other duties as directed from time to time. About You To be successful in this position, you must possess: a relevant tertiary qualification in social work, psychology, police/protective services, community welfare, law, industrial relations, education or related discipline, with a minimum of ten years’ post-qualification experience extensive experience in conducting comprehensive workplace investigations an in-depth knowledge of the NSW child protection legislative framework and organisational responsibilities a strong understanding of child protection principles and best practice approaches a demonstrated resilience and ability to effectively lead a child safety team experience in leading and supporting a professional team in high risk and emergency responses to incidents a current driver’s license and access to a car a willingness to respect, support, and uphold the mission, ethos, and teachings of the Catholic Church and the values of SCS. Desirable: previous experience in the Education and/or not-for-profit sectors knowledge of Catholic Systemic Schools/Systems. Why Work for Sydney Catholic Schools In joining Sydney Catholic Schools (SCS), you will be part of the largest Catholic education community in NSW, with a unified vision and shared resources, encompassing over 145 schools and over 74,000 students. We enable job mobility across the system, diverse career opportunities and an extensive suite of professional development programs. SCS is renowned for excellence, with six schools in the top 100 and 13 in the top 150 of the 2024 HSC rankings. Over 51% of results were Band 5 or 6, and our students achieved 2,819 Distinguished Achiever mentions. Be part of a system that fosters academic, creative and vocational success, shaping future leaders every step of the way. In addition, we offer: a competitive salary salary packaging of up to $15,900 annually up to 25% discount on school fees for parents of SCS students ongoing training and development opportunities discounts on gym classes and memberships, activewear, healthy meals, and wellbeing products ex-gratia leave between Christmas and New Year generous Employee Referral Program. Application Process Please click on the 'Apply' button and follow the steps to submit your application. To complete the application process, please ensure you attach the following; current CV cover letter highlighting the criteria above. For internal employees, apply via the 'Careers' tile in Employee Self Service. For any queries or questions, please contact the People & Culture Talent Acquisition team at syd.catholic.edu.au. Statement of Commitment to Child Safety Click here to access SCS' Statement of Commitment to Child Safety and join us in creating a culture of child safety and wellbeing. Working With Children Check (WWCC) This role is classified as child-related work and therefore requires a WWCC clearance prior to commencement of employment. SCS welcomes and encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and candidates with diverse backgrounds.
