Family Support Coordinator - Sunbury State School

Make a real impact at Sunbury State School as our Family Support Coordinator.

In this role, you’ll help children and families transition confidently into school by strengthening attendance, behaviour, and engagement. You’ll work closely with teachers and early childhood partners to create welcoming learning environments and connect families with vital community and government services that reduce barriers and support student success.

This position is being offered in a Temporary Part-Time capacity (0.60FTE), 43.50 hours per fortnight.

About the school:

Sunbury State School blends Maryborough's proud history with a future‑focused approach to learning, creating a warm, community‑minded environment where many families return for the strong sense of belonging. With around 200 Prep-Year 6 students, the school combines its heritage with modern, technology‑enabled learning spaces and a commitment to “Learning for Life.” Dedicated teachers know each child well, set clear goals and track growth closely to ensure every learner feels supported and confident. Sunbury's core priority is simple: know every learner deeply, energise every classroom and amplify every child's potential.

Your opportunity:

As the Family Support Coordinator, your responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Implement structured and long-term collaboration with a diverse range of external partners to drive positive outcomes for families and children to engage successfully with learning and strengthen relationships with parents and carers to facilitate improvement in student attendance, behaviour and engagement in learning.
• Work with classroom teachers, teacher aides and specialist support staff to understand the child's needs and connect families with services, such as health, therapeutic and developmental interventions to support engagement with learning.
• Build and sustain positive relationships and effective partnerships with students, parents, school staff, government agencies and community services and provide expert input into decision making processes to ensure optimum outcomes for children and their families.
• Bring expertise into school communities about vulnerable children and families and their needs to facilitate engagement in learning and improved learning outcomes.
• Identify a diverse range of external partners and assist in the establishment of a formal network for support providers and partners.
• Connect families and children with services and supports, in the school and externally, that promote access to a range of services in a coordinated and planned way.

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 1-page written statement in response to the attached role description
• Attach evidence of the mandatory requirements outlined in the attached role description 

We welcome all applicants to share any support needed to ensure our recruitment process is inclusiveApplications 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.