Details
- Location: Ermington, Sydney
- Full Time | Non-Award Salary
- Salary: $115,000 + Vehicle Allowance + Salary packaging
At Wesley OOSH, child safety is not treated as compliance. It is central to how we lead, operate, and grow.
The Out of School Hours Care sector is changing rapidly. Regulators, schools, and families are placing greater scrutiny on how providers identify risk, respond to concerns, support staff practice, and demonstrate that children are safe in day-to-day operations.
This role has been created in direct response to lead that shift.
We are seeking a Child Safety Manager to lead and strengthen safeguarding practice across the Wesley OOSH portfolio. This is a senior operational leadership role focused on building strong systems, supporting leaders, identifying risks early, and ensuring child safety is consistently embedded across every service.
This is not a reactive compliance role. We are looking for someone who can identify risk before it escalates, influence leadership practice, and help shape a portfolio that can grow safely and sustainably, with strong operational control.
You will work directly with the Head of OOSH and the senior leadership team and play a key role in strengthening Wesley’s position as a trusted provider within the sector.
About the role
The Child Safety Manager will provide leadership in child safeguarding, incident oversight, reporting obligations, risk management, and child-safe practice across the OOSH portfolio.
The role will support leaders and services in strengthening practice while maintaining visibility into emerging risks, trends, incidents, complaints, workforce concerns, and operational vulnerabilities.
You will contribute directly to strengthening leadership accountability, improving systems and evidence, supporting investigations and regulatory responses, and embedding consistent child safe expectations across all services.
The role requires strong professional judgement, credibility, and the ability to work across operational, regulatory, and leadership environments.
What we are looking for
We are seeking someone who is calm, credible, highly professional, and confident operating in complex environments involving children, risk, leadership, and accountability.
You understand that strong safeguarding is built through leadership, culture, consistency, visibility, and follow-through.
You are proactive by nature. You notice patterns early, ask difficult questions when required, and take ownership of issues before they escalate.
You can support and challenge leaders professionally. You are capable of building trust while maintaining clear expectations and accountability.
Most importantly, you understand that child safety is not separate from operations. It must be embedded in how services are led every day.
Essential experience and knowledge
- Experience in safeguarding, child safety, compliance, investigations, or risk within child facing environments
- Strong understanding of child safe obligations, mandatory reporting, and safeguarding frameworks
- Experience supporting leaders to manage complex incidents and risk
- Ability to assess operational risk and identify emerging concerns early
- Strong written communication and professional judgement
- Strong professional communication skills with the ability to articulate risk, expectations, and child safety practice clearly across leaders, schools, and regulatory environments
- Ability to work independently across multiple sites and priorities
- Understanding of education, OSHC, community services, or not for profit environments
- Relevant qualification or equivalent sector experience
- Current Working with Children Check
- Current Driver Licence
What we offer as an organisation
- Salary packaging through AccessPay
- Fitness Passport
- Blue Light Card discounts
- Employee Assistance Program
- Ongoing leadership development and professional support
- Opportunity to shape a newly created leadership role within a growing portfolio
About Wesley OOSH
Wesley OOSH operates services across Sydney and the Central Coast as part of Wesley Mission.
We believe every child deserves to feel safe, included, and known. Our services are guided by My Time, Our Place and grounded in our philosophy that every life matters.
We are continuing to grow, but we are deliberate about how we grow. Strong leadership, operational discipline, and visible child safe practice are central to that direction.
Apply now
Applications should include a cover letter and a current resume.
Please quote “Child Safety Manager” in the subject line and send applications to:
Thomas Eden
Thomas.eden@wesleymission.org.au
Wesley Mission is a Christian organisation requiring all staff to affirm its values and Worker code of conduct. We are committed to providing an environment in which children can feel safe and valued.
The suitable applicant will be subject to the relevant pre-employment checks for appointment
to positions within Wesley Mission (including provision of a valid Working with Children Check clearance number).
Wesley Mission is committed to diversity, inclusion and reconciliation. Guided by our vision of doing all the good we can because every life matters, we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and social demographics, and strongly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to apply.
