Leading Teacher Disability, Inclusion & Wellbeing 2 yr Tenure 1.0eft

Department of Education Victoria; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 95,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Noble Park Primary School, under the Department of Education Victoria, invites applications for leading teacher roles to enhance teaching and learning across the school. You will coordinate staff, model high-quality practice, and drive literacy and numeracy improvements within a supportive, collaborative team.

The role emphasizes data-informed decision making, stakeholder engagement, and leadership in implementing school priorities and disability inclusion strategies.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated expert knowledge of the relevant curriculum and ability to lead and manage school priorities and literacy/numeracy teaching.
• Ability to lead planning and implementation of high-impact teaching strategies responding to student needs and to evaluate impact on learning growth.
• Demonstrated ability to monitor and assess student learning at class/cohort/school level and use data to drive improvement.
• Exemplary interpersonal and leadership skills; ability to foster collaborative relationships with students, families and the school community.
• Ability to model Department values and support ongoing professional learning across staff.
• Experience with Disabilities Inclusion Profiles (DIPs) and related processes to improve outcomes for students with disability.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage whole-school improvement initiatives aligned with the school strategic plan.
• Lead curriculum planning and delivery improvements across learning areas.
• Oversee professional development and individual/team development plans for staff.
• Manage staff performance, development, and teaching demonstrations.
• Develop and implement school assessment and reporting policies and practices.
• Contribute to school operations, welfare and discipline policies and school code of conduct.
• Develop proposals for school council consideration and policy development.

Skills

Curriculum knowledge

Leadership

Data analysis

Stakeholder engagement

Professional reflection

Education

Teaching registration (VIT)

Postgraduate qualifications (advantage)

Job description

Department of Education Victoria – Noble Park VIC

2d ago , from Department of Education & Training Victoria

Noble Park Primary School is situated Southeast of Melbourne, approximately 35.6 kilometres from the Melbourne Central Business District. We are proud of our culturally diverse and inclusive school that serves a community represented by up to 46 language groups with many families recent arrivals to Australia. The current school population is 295 students with a SFO of 0.5619 serving a large proportion of students with language background other than English.

The school currently comprises of fourteen (14) classes and offers specialist programs in Visual Arts, Music, Physical Education and Science and Sustainability. The teaching staff at Noble Park Primary School comprises a range of levels of experience from recently graduated teachers through to highly experienced teaching practitioners who engage in school improvement.

The School Improvement Team comprises of three (3) principal class officers, three (3) learning specialists, one (1) speech pathologist and (1) business manager. Our middle leaders are developing their capacity to lead the school forward to ensure we are providing students with the best possible learning and wellbeing outcomes.

Our pedagogical approach is informed by evidence-based teaching practice. An explicit, evidence-based synthetic phonics program that systematically teaches children to read (Little Learners Loves Literacy) has been implemented in the Foundation-2 area over the past three years and has resulted in improved student outcomes. Collaborative curriculum planning, aligned to the Victorian Teaching and Learning Model 2.0, the Victorian Curriculum 2.0 and the Science of Learning, is the current focus for strengthening whole school teaching and learning approaches across the school.

Over the past three years, resources have been mobilised to support students' wellbeing and mental health. The School Wide Positive Behaviour support (SWPBS) framework has brought the whole school community together to promote a positive, safe, respectful, and responsible learning culture. Our students are encouraged to have high expectations of themselves and are supported to achieve success every day.

Noble Park Primary School’s values are:

• Be Responsible: We own our own choices and behaviour.
• Be Respectful: We accept each other for who we are.
• Be Kind: We use our words and actions to show we care.
• Be Safe: We look after each other through the choices we make.

Noble Park Primary Schools vision is:

• We aspire to create an inclusive school community that embraces opportunity, and inspires individual to collaborate, learn and achieve.

At Noble Park Primary School, we celebrate diversity and respect parents as active participants in their child's learning and development. We are committed to establishing partnerships with parents and the wider community and working with external organisations to support our families. English classes and Playgroup take place in the Community Room each week. Parents and carers are welcome to attend.

Selection Criteria

• SC1 Demonstrated expert knowledge of the relevant curriculum. Demonstrated ability to lead and manage the implementation of school priorities, and the teaching of literacy and numeracy skills across the curriculum.
• SC2 Demonstrated ability to lead the planning and implementation of high impact teaching strategies that respond to student learning needs. Demonstrated ability to support teachers to evaluate the impact of learning and teaching programs on student learning growth.
• SC3 Demonstrated exemplary ability to monitor and assess student learning at a class, cohort or whole-school level and use this data to lead improvement initiatives. Demonstrated ability to support others in using data to inform teaching practice and to provide feedback on student learning growth and achievement to students and parents.
• SC4 Demonstrated exemplary interpersonal and leadership skills. Demonstrated ability to lead collaborative relationships with students, colleagues, parents and the broader school community focused on student learning, agency, wellbeing and engagement.
• SC5 Demonstrated ability to model behaviours and attitudes consistent with Department values and support colleagues to adopt these behaviours and attitudes. Demonstrated ability to reflect upon their own, others and whole-school practice and contribute to the provision of whole-school professional learning.
• SC6 Demonstrated capacity to lead and support the implementation of Disabilities Inclusion Profiles (DIPs) and related processes, working collaboratively with staff, families and professionals to build inclusive practices and improve outcomes for students with disability.

Role

Leading teachers will be highly skilled classroom practitioners and undertake leadership and management roles commensurate with their salary range. The role of leading teachers is to improve the skill, knowledge and performance of the teaching workforce in a school or group of schools and to improve the curriculum program of a school.

Typically, leading teachers are responsible for coordinating a number of staff to achieve improvements in teaching and learning which may involve the coordination and professional support of colleagues through modelling, collaborating and coaching and using processes that develop knowledge, practice and professional engagement in others.

Leading teachers are expected to lead and manage a significant area or function within the school with a high degree of independence to ensure the effective development, provision and evaluation of the school's education program.

Leading teachers will be expected to make a significant contribution to policy development relating to teaching and learning in the school. A leading teacher has a direct impact and influence on the achievement of the school goals.

Leading teachers are usually responsible for the implementation of one or more priorities contained in the school strategic plan.

Responsibilities

• Leading and managing the implementation of whole-school improvement initiatives related to the school strategic plan and school priorities
• Leading and managing the implementation of whole-school improvement strategies related to curriculum planning and delivery;
• Leading and managing the provision of professional development and developing individual and team development plans for teaching staff within the priorities of the school;
• Leading and managing staff performance and development (review of staff);
• Teaching demonstration lessons;
• Leading and managing the development of the school's assessment and reporting policies and practices;
• Leading and managing the implementation of the school operations and policies related to student welfare and discipline;
• Leading the development of curriculum in a major learning area and participating in curriculum development in other areas;
• Responsibility for general discipline matters beyond the management of classroom teachers;
• Contributing to the overall leadership and management of the school;
• Contributing to the development of proposals for school council consideration;
• Developing and managing the school code of conduct.

Who May Apply

Teachers currently registered or eligible for registration with the Victorian Institute of Teaching and qualified to teach and/or have demonstrated experience in the curriculum area(s) specified for the position.

Diversity and Inclusion

The department is committed to diversity and inclusion and developing a workforce that is representative of the community we service. We value diversity and inclusion in all forms - culture, gender, religion, ethnicity, LGBTIQA+, disability and neurodiversity. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates are strongly encouraged to apply for roles within the Department. The Department recognises that the provision of safe, respectful and inclusive workplaces is essential to high performance and promotes flexible work and diversity across all schools and Department workplaces. It is our policy to provide reasonable adjustments for staff with disability (see Workplace adjustment guidelines).

Additional support and advice on the recruitment process is available to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander candidates from the Koorie Outcomes Division (KOD) via [e-mail]

Child Safe Standards

Victorian government schools are child safe environments. Our schools actively promote the safety and wellbeing of all students, and all school staff are committed to protecting students from abuse or harm in the school environment, in accordance with their legal obligations including child safe standards. All schools have a Child Safety Code of Conduct consistent with the department's exemplar available at:

https://www2.education.vic.gov.au/pal/child-safe-standards/policy

DE Values

The department's employees commit to upholding the department's Values: Responsiveness, Integrity, Impartiality, Accountability, Respect, Leadership and Human Rights. The department's Values complement each school's own values and underpin the behaviours the community expects of Victorian public sector employees, including those who work in Victorian Government Schools. Information on the department values is available at:

https://www2.education.vic.gov.au/pal/values-department-vps-school-employees/overview

Conditions of Employment

• All staff employed by the Department and schools have access to a broad range of employment conditions and working arrangements.
• Appointment of successful applicants will be made subject to a satisfactory pre-employment conditions check.
• A probationary period may apply during the first year of employment and induction and support programs provided.
• Detailed information on all terms and conditions of employment is available on the Department's Human Resources website at https://www2.education.vic.gov.au/pal

Qualification Requirements

To be eligible for employment, transfer or promotion in the principal or teacher class:

• The person must have provisional or full registration approved by the Victorian Institute of Teaching; and
• if the person completed an Australian postgraduate level initial teaching program or course of study on or after 1 January 2024, they must demonstrate that they have satisfactorily completed a postgraduate level accredited initial teacher education program that has been accredited by an Australian State or Territory Teacher Regulatory Authority as satisfying the requirements of the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership 'Accreditation of initial teacher education programs in Australia: Standards and Procedures'; and
• a person who graduated from a Victorian Initial Teacher Education (ITE) program after 1 July 2016 must also demonstrate that they have passed the literacy and numeracy test for initial teacher education (LANTITE) requirements (this condition is satisfied where the LANTITE requirement is part of the Victorian ITE program completed by the person).

Details of qualification requirements as updated from time to time can be found atRecruitment in Schools.