Work Type: Ongoing - Full-time
Salary: Salary not specified
Grade: Assistant Principal - Range 1
Occupation: Principal and assistant principal
Location: Melbourne - Eastern suburbs
Reference: 1490131
School Profile 2025
Healesville High School is a small secondary school uniquely positioned in the Yarra Valley, approximately 20kms northeast of Lilydale and 60kms from the Melbourne CBD. The school opened in 1962 and has a current enrolment of 330 students. The majority of students are from Healesville and the surrounding rural communities. Approximately 50% of students use bus transport to and from school. The bus network extends throughout the Yarra Valley and services Yarra Glen, Christmas Hills, Toolangi and Coldstream.
The school services the educational needs of students from a diverse range of socio-economic backgrounds, including a small number of Koori students. The school has a strong community focus and is proud of its history in working with the local community. Healesville prides itself as a very caring and safe school where its students can grow and mature to be confident, articulate and focused young men and women.
Ten million dollars was allocated for modernisation of classrooms, administrative buildings, library and specialist facilities. In addition, the school was successful in applying for a $2M Language Centre and a $2.5M Trade Training Centre (Building & Construction and Automotive). The masterplan for the whole site allows for neighbourhoods of learning that are specific to year levels as well as first class specialist facilities throughout. This has added to the already excellent sporting and other school facilities including indoor heated swimming pool, two stadia, gymnasium and music centre. Our jointly operated sporting and recreation facilities provide access for students both within and outside school hours. The school has close links with the community and supports programs that enhance opportunities for students.
Healesville High has an extensive computer network including computer labs, pods and laptop computers. All students in Years 9 and 10 are provided with a portable notebook computer for their exclusive usage throughout the school day. Students in Years 11 and 12 have access to computers and portable notebooks in the VCE Centre. Year 7 and 8 students are in the Bring Your Own Device program. This is in addition to our already excellent computer resources and ensures that all Healesville High School students have access to innovative and global learning experiences.
Our school has an excellent VCE pass rate and an outstanding record of placing students in tertiary courses. We also offer a VCEVM program for Year 11 & 12 students which works closely with the local community. Healesville is a member of the Yarra Valley VET Cluster which works cooperatively to offer a broad range of VET programs. All later years students have managed individual pathways which ensure they have access to a full range of educational and vocational options. The Yarra Valley Polytechnic (the new Trade Training Centre in conjunction with Upper Yarra SC and Worawa Aboriginal College) offers senior students the opportunity of completing Certificate II & III in Building and Construction, Automotive Mechanical and Vehicle Body Repair at Healesville, Hospitality and Furniture and Cabinet Making at Upper Yarra and Rural Operations at Worawa. The successful completion of these courses will enable students to enter their post secondary pathway.
The school¿s professional development program ensures that all staff are at the forefront of educational thinking and reforms and there is a genuine commitment to continually improve the standard of teaching and learning across all areas of the curriculum.
School Purpose
To provide engaging and dynamic learning experiences for all students within a caring school community that nurtures individuals and motivates them to reach their full academic and personal potential.
School Values
RESPECT
Care for self, others and the environment
Accept and embrace diversity
Tolerate different opinions
SC1 Educational Leadership
(a) Outstanding capacity for visionary and exemplary educational leadership of a school
(b) Highly developed skills in leading and managing change, including the leadership of others in the process of change.
SC2 Financial, Managerial and Administrative Ability
Outstanding financial, organisational and resource management skills.
SC3 Planning Policy and Program Development and Review
(a) Exemplary values appropriate to the development of student learning with a demonstrated capacity to achieve high quality student outcomes.
(b) Demonstrated ability to implement Department policies and initiatives to a high level.
(c) An understanding of, and a commitment to, the use of learning technologies to improve teaching and learning.
SC4 Leadership of Staff and Students
(a) A highly developed capacity to motivate staff, develop their talents and build an effective team.
(b) A clear capacity to foster a learning environment that takes account of the individual needs of students and helps students to develop their special abilities and talents.
SC5 Interpersonal and Communication Skills
(a) Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills in individual, small group and community contexts.
(b) Exemplary values pertaining to personal qualities of objectivity, sensitivity and integrity.
(c) An ability to work with parents and the community to develop a strong learning environment.
The assistant principal reports directly to the principal.
Assistant principals have a primary responsibility for the management of significant areas or functions within the school to ensure the effective development, provision and evaluation of the school's education program. In exercising the responsibility, assistant principals will have the authority to make all significant decisions relating to the program, budget and staff relating to their area of designated responsibility within the framework of the school's strategic plan, policies and budget. Assistant principals will contribute to the overall management of the school through involvement in policy formulation and decision making.
The management of significant school program or functional areas in schools involve assistant principals in the analysis of the needs of students and the translation of state educational policy and frameworks into appropriate education programs to meet the needs of all students.
Typically assistant principals will be responsible for the effective use of the teaching staff and program budget of a defined area of the school's operation and for the oversight and leadership of the educational programs provided utilising these resources.
Typically, assistant principals perform one or more of the following functions:
Appropriately qualified individuals currently registered or eligible for registration with the Victorian Institute of Teaching.
Applicants seeking part-time employment are encouraged to apply for any teaching service position and, if they are the successful candidate, request a reduced time fraction. Such requests will be negotiated on a case-by-case basis and will be subject to the operational requirements of the school.
The Department of Education is committed to the principles of equal opportunity, and diversity and inclusion for all. We value diversity and inclusion in all forms - gender, religion, ethnicity, LGBTIQ+, 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 family friendly, supportive, safe and harassment free workplaces is essential to high performance and promotes flexible work, diversity and safety across all schools and Department workplaces. It is our policy to provide reasonable adjustments for persons with a disability (see Workplace adjustment guidelines).
Additional support and advice on the recruitment process is available to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islanders from the Koorie Outcomes Division (KOD) via [email protected]
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
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
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Please note that the selection panel may seek additional referees beyond those you name. Consistent with policy, we shall advise you if we will take this action.
To be eligible for employment, transfer or promotion in the principal or teacher class a person must have provisional or full registration from the Victorian Institute of Teaching. In addition, from 3 August 2020, to be eligible for employment in the principal class or teacher class, a person who graduated from a Victorian Initial Teacher Education program after 1 July 2016, must 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 Initial Teacher Education program completed by the person.