STL2 Behaviour Support Educator

Department for Education, South Australia; City of Mount Gambier; On-site; AUD 122,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Department for Education in Mount Gambier is seeking a Behaviour Support Educator to provide consultancy, coaching and capability building across sites. The role focuses on proactive strategies, inclusive pedagogy, and restorative practices to support students with additional needs.

You will work with school leaders, teachers, families and other professionals to improve behaviour, wellbeing and engagement within the learning environment.

Qualifications

• Essential: A tertiary qualification in education and current full teacher registration.
• Desirable: Nil

Responsibilities

• Consultancy, coaching, capability building and cultural responsiveness underpin Behaviour Support Educator work.
• Provide proactive, preventative, and targeted services to assist sites to meet the needs of children with additional needs.
• Collaborate with school leadership, staff and families to promote inclusive practices and a restorative approach.

Skills

Verbal interventions

Disengagement

Behaviour support

Restorative practice

Collaboration

Education

Tertiary qualification in education

Full teacher registration

Tools

Restorative Practice

Positive Behaviour Learning

Job description

• Positive Behaviour Learning
• Verbal interventions plus disengagement

Department for Education

Job reference: 860731

Location: 5290 - MOUNT GAMBIER

Job status: Short Term Contract

Eligibility: SA Public Sector Employees only

Why work with us

Every child and young person deserves a great education.

We have a strategy that aims to unlock every child’s potential now and into the future, one that in partnership with learners, students, parents and the wider South Australian community will build a world-leading public education system. One that is equitable and prioritises learning and wellbeing.

Together we will make our education system the best it can be.

When our children and young people thrive, so do our communities and our state.

About The Role

Consultancy, coaching, capability building and cultural responsiveness underpins Behaviour Support Educator work.

Behaviour support educators provide proactive, preventative, and targeted services to assist sites to meet the needs of children and young people with additional needs. This includes support and interventions for individual children and young people, groups, classes and whole of preschool and school; as well as consultation with education staff, families, and other professionals to improve preschool and school-wide practices and policies. They promote a restorative approach to behaviour development and explore the purpose of behaviour to understand precipitating factors.

The Behaviour support educators apply evidence-informed interventions in a range of contexts that support the promotion of socially acceptable and positive behaviour and prevent, reduce, or redirect unsafe and/or unproductive behaviours. They work to improve families’ and preschools and schools’ understanding of behaviour and to develop their capabilities to provide consistent, fair and equitable responses to behaviour that foster trust.

Behaviour support educators work collaboratively with the school leadership team to build school capability to address and support students with additional behavioural needs. They work closely with school and preschool staff to embed inclusive pedagogies that ensure the learning environment reflects the diversity and experiences of children and young people.

Behaviour support educators practice according to the following evidenced-based frameworks:

• Positive Behaviour Learning
• Trauma-Informed practice
• Restorative Practice
• Verbal interventions plus disengagement
• Australian Professional Standards for teachers

Behaviour Support Educators Work As Part Of a Larger Multidisciplinary Team In Student Support Services (SSS) Who Provide Proactive, Targeted, And Intensive Intervention Services To Support Additional Needs Of Learners. The SSS Team Works In Partnership With Schools, Preschools And Families And May Be Available For Children And Students Who Have

• developmental delay/disability
• learning difficulties
• displayed unsafe and/or unproductive behaviours
• health or wellbeing needs
• challenges with disengagement or non-attendance
• communication difficulties.

Student Support Services are on a cultural response journey, as such we value and prioritise Aboriginal ways of knowing, doing and being.

Qualifications

Essential: A tertiary qualification in education and current full teacher registration.

Desirable: Nil

Special conditions

The successful applicant is required to gain a Department for Human Services (DHS) working with children check (WWCC) prior to being employed which is required to be renewed every five years before expiry.

The incumbent will be required to undertake RRHAN –EC (Responding to Risks of Harm, Abuse and Neglect - Education Care) Facilitator Lead (Masterclass) extended course or the online (Fundamentals) course which will be required to be updated every three years.

For all other Special Conditions please refer to the attached Position Description.

People of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent and/or those who have a disability are strongly encouraged to apply.

Remuneration

STL2 $143,438 per annum (1.0 FTE) + superannuation (12%)

Enquiries

Enquiries can be directed to Daniel Tumminello, Team Manager, via tel: [phone] or email: [email protected]

Additional Note

This is a full-time contract role (1.0 FTE), initial 12-month term contract, commencing 22 January 2027.

This position operates under conditions similar to those of the Public Sector Act 2009 (PS Act).

Applications close:

05/11/2026 11:30 PM

Attachments

• Application Cover Sheet - STL.pdf
• How to Apply - STL guidelines.pdf
• Position description - STL2 - Behaviour Support Educator - July 2024.pdf
• VL233 Pre-employment declaration.pdf

Flexibility Statement

The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.