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Work History
Education
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Roskva Roz Brabazon

Kununurra,WA.

Summary

An innovative operator with years of expertise in developing productive client and stakeholder relationships, informing and improving service delivery with capacity, and experience in hazard identification and risk control frameworks, fundamental to compliant WHS management systems.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills appropriate to the level of those I am communicating with, and a proven capacity to negotiate desired outcomes across competing agendas.

Strong work ethic with capacity, experience, and the skills to work autonomously and effectively, identifying and setting priorities whilst utilising sound organisational and time management skills to develop and implement strategic business plans for managing, coordinating, and facilitating optimum outcomes within budget and available resources.

Confident and self-motivated with a keen interest in ethical, legal, and regulatory requirements, works comfortably under pressure whilst delivering high-quality results on tight deadlines.

Committed to creating opportunities for the future success of ongoing adult learning and its clients.

Well-developed capacity managing for coordinating industry engagement activities, overseeing events to bring stakeholders, students, and staff together, whilst creating opportunities to increase service profile.

Dedicated to individual student success and comprehensive understanding.

Work History

Lecturer

North Regional TAFE
Kununurra
08.2021
  • Early Childhood Certificate lll and Diploma, Diploma in Quality Auditing and First Aid
  • Responsibilities:
  • Design, develop, and deliver material utilising a range of methods and platforms, creating course material, lesson plans, and curricula, conducting research and fieldwork, and engaging with students completing their Diploma, and Cert lll in Early Childhood Education and Care Programmes, Auditing, and First Aid
  • Continuously improving teaching programmes, staying abreast of adult educational practices through TAFE facilitated training opportunities and initiatives, and external training providers
  • Elected work health and safety representative for Kununurra Campus in 2022
  • Supporting regular work place inspections, Reporting on relevant work health and safety issues to WHS manager and WHS committee
  • Work with staff locally to identify hazards and conduct incident reporting training
  • Investigate incidents, and hazards and report outcome to line manager as per role requirements
  • Attending regular safety meetings
  • Conducted consultations with all staff in the immediate workplace to facilitate change to workplace tasks and environmental aspects compromising health and safety e.g., Ensured regular staff meeting with standing WHS agenda item
  • Key contributions:
  • Provided advice and guidance within areas of specialist expertise to Early Childhood Education and Care Services
  • Engaged with stakeholders to maintain current and future customer relations, ensuring ongoing individual quality training delivery, as well as the financial success of TAFE
  • Was instrumental in implementing ongoing governance arrangements with ASQA and TAC to meet National Compliance in quality training products, delivery, and assessment.
  • Used a variety of learning modalities and support materials to facilitate the learning process and accentuate presentations

Director

Leonora Early Learning Centre, LELC
Leonora, Western Australia
03.2020 - 08.2021
  • Recruited by the Shire on contract to project manage the transition of “Leonora Childcare” to become an accredited compliant “Early Learning Centre”
  • Responsibilities:
  • Guide, lead, educate and support LELC team and Shire Council, to provide high-quality early childhood education and care to children, whilst collaborating with staff to rewrite philosophy
  • Oversee management and delivery of the full-cycle program, aligned with the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF)
  • Guarantee continuous quality improvement, meeting compliance under the National Quality Framework (NQF), the Privacy Act, and the Food Standards Code, by reviewing and rewriting policies and procedures in collaboration with Approved Provider, educators, and families
  • Key Contributions:
  • Developed new policy manual, through stakeholder networking whilst increasing the provision of quality service delivery substantially increasing utilisation to reach 100% participation
  • Offered strong contribution to the compliance environment, developed work health and safety procedures and processes to ensure a safe workplace, developed transparent processes in operation inclusive of implementation of a consistent staff induction and work, health and safety process, enabling the centre to meet accreditation standard in alignment with the National Quality Framework (NQF)
  • Mentored staff not accustomed to working in childcare, implementation of performance management strategies, to achieve education and care best practice as a service
  • Initiated a partnership with the local high school, which improved centre sustainability whilst expanding employment options for local school leavers
  • Project managed complete renovation and upgrading of the facility to meet compliance in alignment with industry regulatory requirements
  • Implemented contractor compliance processes e.g., sign in/out procedure, associated work, health and safety induction to site and ongoing monitoring of contractor work flow and process compliance
  • Devised innovative approaches to meeting the educational program requirements under the regulations whilst meeting Council budgetary parameters associated with ongoing recruitment
  • Successfully achieved full accreditation of the Centre without waivers, and moved attendance of 30% capacity to 100%, with waiting lists and Shire plans for centre expansion.
  • Spearheaded innovative approaches to resource allocation and strategic planning

Accreditation and Compliance Officer

Central Australia Aboriginal Congress, Northern Territory
Alice Springs, NT
06.2018 - 03.2020
  • Congress is the preferred provider for the Northern Territory Government in medical, mental health, and allied health service provision, and an accredited provider of early learning services
  • Responsibilities:
  • Direct, plan, and coordinate activities of the business to ensure compliance with regulatory standards and ethics across all Congress GP clinics and medical personnel in Alice Springs and remote areas, under RACGP 5th Edition
  • Conduct internal investigations of possible breaches across work health and safety, service compliance and accreditation across Congress Early Childhood Service delivery
  • Overseeing Early Learning Services and proactively auditing processes, practices, and documents to identify weaknesses and overseeing assessment of compliance and operational risks, and development of risk management strategies
  • Supervise company-wide ISO 9001:2015 (QMS) compliance, whilst directing strict quality care compliance for all Early Childhood Services and primary health clinics overseen by Congress, in congruence with the National Quality Framework
  • Advise management on company compliance through detailed internal audit reports and chair Continuous Quality Improvement Committee meetings, as well as deliver training on regulations and industry practices to employees, aimed at reinforcing awareness of high-quality best practice approach
  • Collaborate with external auditors and HR where necessary
  • Create and deliver set plans to manage crisis or compliance violations and monitor ongoing medical equipment compliance
  • Key Contributions:
  • Supported achievement of accreditation across Primary Health clinics and all Congress Early Education centres to maintain the organisation’s access to ongoing government program funding, and further funding opportunities
  • Provided regular staff training in risk management and hazard identification and reporting
  • Conducted and chaired regular WHS meetings with safety representatives to monitor Congress Risk management systems and compliance and applicable controls, as well as engaging in formal safety meetings with representatives to determine new operational risks due to changes in operating conditions and review of procedures.
  • Managed practical action plans to respond to audit discoveries and compliance violations.
  • Liaised with risk management, internal audit and employee services departments to direct compliance issues to appropriate channels for investigation and resolution.

Director

Congress Childcare, Aboriginal Congress
Alice Springs
01.2018 - 01.2019
  • Interim re-deployment (from auditing role), by Congress, to act as the change agent of the organisation, appointed by Board Directors and executive management to manage day-to-day affairs, to achieve centre compliance under the National Quality Framework (NQF), whilst ensuring all employees moved in the same strategic direction to achieve the organisational mission
  • Key Contributions:
  • Guided, and supported the team to provide high-quality early childhood education and care to children, whilst rewriting the centre policy manual in line with regulatory requirements, Congress business strategy, and Congress Childcare philosophy
  • Achieving this objective required close collaboration with the Quality Education and Care Regulatory Unit Northern Territory, users of Congress services, Congress executive management, and Congress Board
  • Wrote work health and safety processes for daily operations and created ongoing monitoring systems for 3 monthly emergency drills, staff induction training in work health and safety policy, incident reporting, manual handling and child protection
  • Reviewed and rewrote remote travel policy and procedure in collaboration with the Human Resource department and representatives across Congress work sites
  • Brought about by a number of accidents and near misses
  • Investigations revealed breaches such as traveling remote alone, traveling after sun set and submission of incomplete vehicle checks prior to undertaking remote travel (unsafe vehicle)
  • Directed strategic turnaround strategies for centre on brink of closure, increasing attendance and business revenue by 70%, ensuring the centre became a viable business with income in place to support sustainable staff ratio as per compliance regulations
  • Facilitated ongoing networking with relevant stakeholders to maintain a positive service reputation within the local community.

Director

Little Mangoes
Katherine, NT
12.2017 - 06.2018
  • Recruited to bring the largest Early learning Centre in Katherine up to compliance standards, stabilise staff retention, and improve the overall viability of the service in a competitive environment
  • Hired and directed teams to achieve daily and long-term operations and business goals.


  • Overseeing efficient daily operations of the service, facilitating the seamless transition to new government childcare subsidy regulations
  • Guided and supported a diverse team to deliver quality, innovative and inclusive Early Childhood education and care learning programmes to children
  • Ensure upholding and alignment of service philosophy in compliance with the National Quality Framework, by facilitating cooperative collaboration between staff, approved provider, and the local community
  • Control and oversee business operations, staffing, and programmes, steering the company in the most profitable direction, whilst implementing business mission and goals in alignment with the National Quality Standard
  • Prepare and implement comprehensive business and financial plans to facilitate cost-effective operations and market development activities
  • Plan and facilitate ongoing improvements in collaboration with all staff, to further drive and maintain quality improvement
  • Key Contribution:
  • Developed centre policy and procedure manual, to enable consistency in staff induction delivery processes, monitoring appropriate staff consultation and cooperation of work health and safety compliance across work conditions e.g., incident reporting and risk register management
  • Monitored contractor engagement with centre, ensuring appropriate record keeping of contractor visits and associated compliance
  • Successfully supervised project management and centre compliance with new childcare subsidy standards, whilst increasing centre income potential by 15% and improved retention of staff.

Manager of Community Services

Regional Development Pilbara
Karratha, WA
01.2017 - 12.2017
  • Function as facilitating partner to supervise the management of West Pilbara Communities for Children initiative and the Pilbara Early Years network, comprising of eight groups across the Pilbara
  • Provide oversight on auditing compliance of service delivery against funding criteria on behalf of the Department for Human Services
  • Work with the Early Year’s local committee to include key agencies and stakeholders to increase delivery of Early learning programmes and services where required
  • Facilitate assessment outcome surveys for agency program delivery to source additional funding to increase and improve service delivery where warranted
  • Working with agencies, giving guidance on developing early years programmes and services, to increase access and programme uptake for disadvantaged and indigenous families, increasing learning and development for children aged from 12 months through early years to support transition to school
  • Key Contribution:
  • Oversaw budget and compliance with funding agreements, as well as developing working relationships with major corporate (mining) providers, resulting in a 30% increase in funding, enabling an expansion of service delivery
  • Managed finance compliance through monitoring of agencies service delivery against scope and objectives of funding and monitoring of expenses against programme budgets
  • Instrumental in conceiving, developing, and sourcing $30,000 in private sector sponsorship funding for the “Teddy Bears Picnic and Early Years Exhibition”, event in 2017, showcasing and bringing together community service agencies associated with early learning programmes and child health from across the Pilbara; securing Professor Caroline Fewster as the keynote speaker, with the participation of 29 agencies and achieved attendance numbers of 400+
  • The event facilitated wider awareness for consumers and providers, of services and programmes available across the Pilbara, and now continues to be funded as an important annual event on the Pilbara early childhood activities services calendar
  • Monitored work health and safety responsibilities and duty of care as part of event management, identifying known hazards and implementing required hierarchy of controls to reduce the risk of injury to visitors, participants and agency staff and other.
  • Quickly learned new skills and applied them to daily tasks, improving efficiency and productivity.

Lecturer

Pilbara Institute/North Regional TAFE,
Karratha, WA
06.2013 - 01.2017
  • Design, develop, create, and deliver material and lesson plans for the accredited training of Advanced Diploma, Diploma, and Cert IIl Early Childhood Education and Care qualifications, utilising a range of teaching methods and learning platforms to assess students’ progress, whilst also liaising with early years sector stakeholders to ensure course outcomes met industry needs
  • Continuously improve teaching programmes, and stay abreast with educational practices by participating in training opportunities and initiatives
  • Provide advice and guidance within areas of specialist expertise to Early Education and Care Services in the Pilbara
  • Engage with stakeholders to maintain current and future customer relations, ensuring ongoing individual training delivery, as well as the financial success of TAFE
  • Establish work, health, and safety processes in the workplace in collaboration with the OSH manager, and support emergency responses through regular drills and incident reporting
  • Participate in ongoing governance arrangements with ASQA and TAC to meet compliance in quality of training products, assessment tools, and delivery
  • Key Contribution:
  • Liaised with industry and local shire to secure funding, to financially support greater uptake of access to TAFE by local trainees who otherwise might not have been able to afford to enrol in Diploma and Cert IIl qualifications, creating increased employment participation and expanding the pool of available qualified educators in the community
  • Communicated, networked with, and attended local community and industry meetings across the Pilbara, supporting an increase in student numbers from 15 students to a 60-student cohort across accredited Certificate lll, Diploma, and Advanced Diploma in Early Childhood Education and Care
  • Additional Compliance Employment and
  • Evaluated and revised lesson plans and course content to achieve student-centered learning.
  • Graded assignments according to strict institutional policies and upheld guidelines for academic integrity while disciplining plagiarism and cheating accordingly.

Relief Director and Team Leader

Treloar and Len Taplin Early Learning Centres South Hedland
01.2011 - 01.2013
  • Key achievement – managed staffing reporting compliance and developed key procedures for hazard and incident reporting with required monitoring processes to maintain ongoing reporting requirements as per NQS.

Manager

South Hedland Lotteries House
01.2010 - 01.2013
  • Key Achievement – developed financial structure and procedure – developed risk register and hazard reporting mechanisms and monitoring for tenants and other users of the House.

Inclusion Support Facilitator, Trainer

Port Hedland Child
01.2007 - 01.2013
  • Protective Behaviours for Port Hedland Police Department, Key Achievement – developed strategic long-term service planning in collaboration with early years settings to support children with additional learning and developmental needs to meet potential and implementation of active supervision management to meet compliance against sector regulation and law.

Director

Rose Nowers Early Learning Centre, South Hedland
05.2009 - 01.2010

Acting Director

Collie Child Care Centre
01.2003 - 01.2006
  • Key achievement – developed processes to manage the work, health and safety of staff, recruitment, and ongoing staff retention and service compliance
  • Worked with staff to help them understand their participatory requirements as part of the work, health, and safety obligations in their individual work area.

Senior Manager (and safety representative)

Hamersley Iron/Pilbara Iron mining
05.2002 - 12.2003
  • Key achievement - developed safety manual for all staff inclusive of vehicle checks- PPE and chemical use, facilitated persistent participation of all staff in daily toolbox meetings and created a strong onboarding process with site induction procedures
  • Supported a cohort of employees from very diverse backgrounds.

Education

Lead Auditor Skills Set -

Easy HR
NSW
10.2021

Cert 4 in Training and Assessment (TAE) 40116 (upgraded from 40110) -

ILEARN
NSW
2021

Certificate Provide An Emergency Response in An Ed - Leadership and management

St Johns
WA
2021

Diploma of Quality Auditing - Early Childhood

Adult College of Learning
NSW
2020

BSI Fundamentals ISO 9001-2015 -

BSI
Perth
2019

Unit of Competence - Early Childhood

Charles Darwin University
Darwin, NT
2016

Certificate in Governance and Risk Management -

Governance Autralia
Perth
2016

Advanced Diploma - Community Sector Management

Queensland TAFE
QLD
2015

Advanced Diploma in Leadership And Management -

QLD TAFE
QLD
2015

Advanced Diploma - Children’s Services

Pilbara Institute
Port Hedland, WA
2012

Diploma - Occupational Safety & Health

Pilbara Institute
Port Hedland, WA
2011

Advanced Diploma - Community Services / Children’s

Pilbara Institute
Port Hedland
2009

Diploma - Community Services (Children’s Services

Pilbara TAFE
Port Hedland
2003

Skills

  • DRIVERS LICENCE:
  • WA Class C (No endorsements)
  • NATIONALITY: Danish/ German
  • Instructional Strategies
  • WHS for Supervisors’ current study
  • Technical Proficiencies:
  • MS Office Suite Windows
  • Advanced level proficiency in software platforms including Myob, Qikkids, XPLOR, SAP and Kincare programmes
  • Advanced level proficiency in data management systems

Accomplishments

  • Chairperson for PCLS (Pilbara Community Legal Service) Board of Management, 2015 - 2017
  • Vice-Chair for LINKS (Local Information Network Karratha Service), 2016 (Instrumental in facilitating the merger between LINKS with EPIC Karratha)
  • Board Member and Treasurer and Industry Consultant for Rose Nowers Early Learning Centre 2007- ongoing
  • Hedland Gymnastics Club Committee as Funding Coordinator 2009 - 2011
  • Founding Member and Facilitator of The Hedland Early Years Group 2010 - 2014
  • Bookkeeper & Treasurer Hedland Senior High School P&C 2012 - 2014
  • Chair and Member of The Karratha Early Years Group 2014 - 2017
  • West Pilbara Communities for Children Committee Member and Facilitator 2015 - 2017
  • Katherine Early Years Group Member 2017 - 2018
  • Alice Springs Early Years Group Member 2018 - 2020
  • ECAWA Committee member 2021 -ongoing
  • KNX Neighborhood Centre - Committee Member 2022 -
  • KCLS board member 2022 -
  • KEY STRENGTHS
  • An innovative operator with years of expertise in developing productive client and stakeholder relationships, informing and improving service delivery with capacity, and experience in hazard identification and risk control frameworks, fundamental to compliant WHS management systems
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills appropriate to the level of those I am communicating with, and a proven capacity to negotiate desired outcomes across competing agendas
  • Strong work ethic with capacity, experience, and the skills to work autonomously and effectively, identifying and setting priorities whilst utilising sound organisational and time management skills to develop and implement strategic business plans for managing, coordinating, and facilitating optimum outcomes within budget and available resources
  • Confident and self-motivated with a keen interest in ethical, legal, and regulatory requirements, works comfortably under pressure whilst delivering high-quality results on tight deadlines
  • Committed to creating opportunities for the future success of ongoing adult learning and its clients
  • Well-developed capacity managing for coordinating industry engagement activities, overseeing events to bring stakeholders, students, and staff together, whilst creating opportunities to increase service profile
  • Always mindful of ensuring business operations and employees adhere to standards, work health and safety, law and regulations that govern respective industries.

Certification

Informal training:

QIP Planning Training 2018

Reconciliation and Cultural Awareness 2020

Community first aid trainer courses through Royal Life Saving WA (VET aligned)

Non-accredited Courses and Workshops:

Public Sector Record Management and Compliance Financial Governance Training

Dealing with Difficult Clients

Emergency Risk Management

Matrix Planning

Contact Officer EO Training

Additional Information

References


Adrian Robinson (Business Management and HR Consultant)

Director AZURE HR

M: 0411 577 501

P: 1300 323 105

W: www.azurehr.com.au Email: adrian@azurehr.com.au


Linda Gray (Previous line manager)

CEO Cranbrook Shire

M: 0429 404 852

Email: linda.gray@cranbrook.wa.gov.au


Dr. Barbara Meddin

Principal Consultant at Human Service Consulting

(Policy and Procedure development for community agencies / Community Development)

P.O. Box 6573, East Perth, Western Australia, Australia

M: 0404 582 393 Email: waybob@iinet.net.au


Penny Beckey

Proprietor Little Mangoes

9 Martin Terrace, Katherine, NT 0850

M: 0428 357 232 Email: penny.beckey@icloud.com


Chipo Chipato

Chief Risk and Compliance (senior manager)

Central Australian Aboriginal Congress Corporation

Email: chipo.chipato@caac.org.au PH: 08 8951 0909 M: 0457 819 749

Timeline

Lecturer

North Regional TAFE
08.2021

Director

Leonora Early Learning Centre, LELC
03.2020 - 08.2021

Accreditation and Compliance Officer

Central Australia Aboriginal Congress, Northern Territory
06.2018 - 03.2020

Director

Congress Childcare, Aboriginal Congress
01.2018 - 01.2019

Director

Little Mangoes
12.2017 - 06.2018

Manager of Community Services

Regional Development Pilbara
01.2017 - 12.2017

Lecturer

Pilbara Institute/North Regional TAFE,
06.2013 - 01.2017

Relief Director and Team Leader

Treloar and Len Taplin Early Learning Centres South Hedland
01.2011 - 01.2013

Manager

South Hedland Lotteries House
01.2010 - 01.2013

Director

Rose Nowers Early Learning Centre, South Hedland
05.2009 - 01.2010

Inclusion Support Facilitator, Trainer

Port Hedland Child
01.2007 - 01.2013

Acting Director

Collie Child Care Centre
01.2003 - 01.2006

Senior Manager (and safety representative)

Hamersley Iron/Pilbara Iron mining
05.2002 - 12.2003

Lead Auditor Skills Set -

Easy HR

Cert 4 in Training and Assessment (TAE) 40116 (upgraded from 40110) -

ILEARN

Certificate Provide An Emergency Response in An Ed - Leadership and management

St Johns

Diploma of Quality Auditing - Early Childhood

Adult College of Learning

BSI Fundamentals ISO 9001-2015 -

BSI

Unit of Competence - Early Childhood

Charles Darwin University

Certificate in Governance and Risk Management -

Governance Autralia

Advanced Diploma - Community Sector Management

Queensland TAFE

Advanced Diploma in Leadership And Management -

QLD TAFE

Advanced Diploma - Children’s Services

Pilbara Institute

Diploma - Occupational Safety & Health

Pilbara Institute

Advanced Diploma - Community Services / Children’s

Pilbara Institute

Diploma - Community Services (Children’s Services

Pilbara TAFE

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Roskva Roz Brabazon