QA7 Governance and Leadership

Strengths

Our Philosophy

Staff meeting: reviewing the previous statement of philosophy and staff collating ideas about what should be kept in the services new statement of philosophy.

Next staff meeting: Adam showing all staff the updated service philosophy with all the key ideas from the staff’s collective thoughts.

QIP QA7 meeting saw educators discuss curriculum, respect and responsibility and seeking child and family input.

Our philosophy is our 'why' behind our practice

See our Service Philosophy here.

Roles and Responsibilities

OSHC educators' roles and responsibilities:

A combination of leadership and staff led selection of roles and responsibilities resulted in sharing the roles at the service.

Educators are encouraged to work to their strengths through carrying out their assigned roles and responsibilities.

Within each of these roles the responsibilities may be shared or delegated amongst staff, however the name next to a given role is the lead of that area. Whereby at each staff meeting all staff are afforded the opportunity to share with the team what they are currently working on within that area to update everyone.

This document is updated following any major staffing changes.

Educational Leader in Staff Meeting

Each staff meeting has a dedicated time on the agenda for the Educational Leader. During this time Ben will challenge our beliefs on education and upskill our knowledge. He will ensure we reflect on practice to ensure we are operating at our true capacity.

Ben does an excellent job of implementing our planning cycle throughout staff meeting times, ensuring all educators are contining to use this framework at the forefront of their practice in our service.

QIP Development

The Quality Improvement Plan (QIP) is an essential live document to all OSHC services. This is the current process of creating our new QIP for the service. Each Monday between 12pm and 2pm all Leadership and Qualified staff members meet to discuss the QIP and the 7 quality areas of the National Quality Standard. This meeting provides an in depth discussion regarding key areas of the service, such as the philosophy, processes, strengths, areas for improvement and action needed.

A current goal for the QIP is for it to be displayed through an interactive document that all families of the service can access upon entering the OSHC.

By utilising the digital platform padlet (see image below), each staff member in attendance has the opportunity to add their own unique insights against all sub strands of each quality area. These ideas were then discussed in an open forum to inform the decisions placed into the QIP document.

Once a quality area has been fully completed, the findings will get shown to all staff during a staff meeting. Therefore, all staff can be across the QIP key points and add or adjust the document as necessary.

OSHC Advisory Committee

The OSHC advisory committee is responsible for:

assisting the school governing council to comply with the Education and Care Services National Regulations
supporting the school governing council, principal and OSHC director to ensure the quality of care being offered is in keeping with the values, principles and policies of the school, council, community and the department
ensuring that children, families and staff have a voice in the management of the OSHC service
supporting the OSHC director and staff on a day-to-day basis
making recommendations to the school governing council for its endorsement (ratification).

Department for Education South Australia

Budget and fee discussions

Following school Governing Council election in February, the OAC meets twice per term before each Governing council meeting, typically in Weeks 2 and 7.

OSHC families are invited to fill vacancies as they arise.

In 2024 our committee comprised

Adam Moller - Director, committee chair
Iain Elliott - Principal
Guy Hamlyn - Governing Council
Rebecca Melham - Parent Representative
Sam Knight - Parent Representative
Kate Knight - Parent Representative
Christine Conway - School Finance officer

Our QIP is Developed in Consultation with:

The educators, children and families of Black Forest OSHC.

Black Forest Primary School

Reconciliation Action Plan Working Group
OSHC Advisory Committee

Concordia College OSHC

Clarence Park Community Kindergarten

The City of Unley

OSHCsa board and hub group members

Mandy Richardson, Principal Program Officer, OSHC, Office for the Early Years, Department for Education

Exceeding Themes

Standard 7.1 – Governance: Governance supports the operation of a quality service.

Embedded

Informed

Meaningful

Exceeding Themes

Standard 7.2 – Leadership: Effective leadership builds and promotes a positive organisational culture and professional learning community.

Embedded

Each year the staff participate in 'Cuppa tea meetings'. These were developed coming out of Covid to ensure we were in touch with each Educators well-being. Seperate and distinct from a performance review these meetings are used to connect and understand the needs of each educator.

Informed

Meaningful

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