Work Type: Ongoing - Full-time
Salary: Salary not specified
Grade: Leading Teacher - Range 3
Occupation: Leading teacher
Location: Melbourne - Western suburbs
Reference: 1489316
Wiyal Primary School is a new government school opening in Term 1 2026. It is located on Pear Parade, Fraser Rise. Wiyal Primary School will serve a rapidly growing community and provide a high-quality local education for students from Foundation to Year 6.
The school is being purpose-designed with flexible, inclusive learning environments. Facilities will include collaborative learning spaces, multiple play areas, a playing field, shade trees, and outdoor areas that support wellbeing, play, and exploration. The school will also integrate the latest technology as a tool to support learning, including iPads, laptops, and screens throughout the learning spaces.
Wiyal Primary School¿s vision is to create an engaging and inclusive school community where every individual feels valued, empowered, and supported to achieve success. This vision is captured in our motto `Empowering Excellence¿. This motto "Empowering Excellence" is more than just words. It inspires students to reach their full potential and creates a shared purpose for continuous improvement and achievement.
Our mission is to create a safe, welcoming and respectful learning environment that inspires and challenges all members of the school community to embrace learning and achieve academic, social, emotional and physical excellence. Students will develop a love of learning and become successful learners, confident individuals and active citizens.
We are committed to:
· having high expectations for all students and believing in their ability to learn and succeed.
· planning a guaranteed, viable and student focussed curriculum
· improving teaching and learning through evidence-based practices
· providing differentiated instruction to meet the diverse needs of all students
· embedding data driven decisions and rigorous assessment practices
· embedding highly effective Professional Learning Communities
· investing in a multi-tiered professional learning strategy
· establishing a positive climate for learning
· implementation of a multi-tier system of support (MTSS)
· activating student voice, leadership and agency
· fostering positive relationships with our families and wider community
· ensuring the school is responsive to the local needs of the community
The schools¿ values are courage, collaboration, kindness, learning and wellbeing - they are the heart of who we are!
Join Us:
For more information about Wiyal Primary School (including the vision, values, teaching and learning approaches, wellbeing strategies and how we will support our staff), please join our leadership team at our upcoming recruitment information session Monday 25 August at 5pm (online). To attend the session, please complete the following survey to receive your Webex invite. Invitations will be shared with registered attendees at 12pm on Monday 25 August. Survey link: https://forms.gle/nCPcrzBhGKhg46gF7
Application Details:
Please submit your Cover Letter, CV and responses to the Key Selection Criteria (KSC) as one PDF document titled with your name. Include the contact details of three referees (phone and email preferred).
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.
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.
In recognition of the importance of leadership and management combined with exemplary teaching practice for improved student learning outcomes, the key roles of the leading teachers may include but are not limited to:
This role does include a teaching component and the successful candidate will spend time teaching as part of their key responsibilities.
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.
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
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.