Work Type: Fixed-term - Part-time
Salary: Salary not specified
Grade: Education Support - Level 1, Range 4
Occupation: Health and allied health
Location: Melbourne - Northern suburbs
Reference: 1504572
Glenroy West Primary School was built in 1958 and is located 16km north of metropolitan CBD. There are excellent facilities and large grounds that provide for active play, adventure playgrounds, running track and oval, basketball courts, additional playgrounds, down-ball courts, two kindergarten rooms and native gardens.
Glenroy West Primary School received $18.12 million to upgrade and modernize the school, including new facilities for an additional 250 students to meet enrolment growth for the 2025 school year and beyond.
The school currently has 355 students with an expected increase in capacity for 550 students in the next two years. The school has a proud tradition of education in the City of Merri-Bek.
The student population is diverse with thirty languages represented at the school and 65 per cent of students coming from a home where English is not the main. The school has a SFO index of 0.5556 and SFOE index of 0.4191.
The school has two kindergarten buildings on site called York Street Kindergarten operational from 2014 under the banner of the Northern Schools Early Years Cluster. The York Street Kindergarten has an excellent educational program for both three- and four-year-old in the Glenroy area. There is a strong link between the playgroup, kindergarten and school to ensure a seamless transition in the Early Years and beyond.
The curriculum provides explicit teaching and learning in literacy and numeracy based on the Victorian Curriculum. Specialist programs include Physical Education, The Arts, STEM, Music and LOTE (Spanish). EAL (English as an additional language) is taught as an additional curriculum area across the school.
The school offers extra Homework Club as an extracurricular subject and the High Ability Program is also offered for students requiring extension as well as additional support for students in both literacy and numeracy.
Our staff are highly trained, dedicated and professional in upholding high academic, social and personal standards. We adopt a forward-thinking approach to curriculum development and delivery so that all students will be engaged in a curriculum that prepares them for the present and future. We are committed to the development of whole school effective teaching and learning practices to best support children in our care as well as achieving excellent academic results.
The focus continues to be on 21st century learning with the use of flexible learning spaces, high quality teaching standards and working collaboratively with other schools in the Merri-Bek Hume Network in partnership and across the wider system.
At Glenroy West Primary School, our vision is to provide quality, stimulating programs in a safe and supportive environment.
The Mental Health Practitioners (MHP) initiative was announced by the Minister for Education in late 2018 to expand mental health and wellbeing support in government schools. The initiative provides for a suitably qualified mental health professional in all government secondary school campuses and specialist school (with secondary-aged enrolments) settings.
Operating in collaboration with the relevant Department of Education Regional Mental Health Branch, this role has the following functions:
Education support class level 1 range 4
The successful applicant will be an experienced professional who will carry out their duties and responsibilities, relative to their professional discipline, with a high level of autonomy and with minimal reliance on professional supervision. The successful applicant will be responsible for the development and implementation of professional support programs within an educational environment, including guidance to other professional staff.
As an education support class position, this role supports the educational services being provided to students, but will not include duties of teaching as defined in clause 2.6.1 of the Education and Training Reform Act 2006 (Vic).
For more information on the responsibilities of an Education Support class level 1 range 4 employee, please visit the Victorian Government Schools Agreement 2022: https://www2.education.vic.gov.au/pal/industrial-agreements/resources
Please note: Continued professional development is a registration requirement under the National Law, which governs the operations of the National Boards and Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).
Required
Desirable
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 [email protected]
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.
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