Work Type: Ongoing - Full-time
Salary: Salary not specified
Grade: Leading Teacher - Range 3
Occupation: Health and allied health
Location: Melbourne - Western suburbs
Reference: 1541870
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 Schools 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 upcoming recruitment information session Wednesday 16 September at 3.30pm onsite. To attend the session, please scan the QR code located on our socials.
The Royal Commission into Victoria's Mental Health System highlighted that primary schools provide opportunities to identify children with mental health and wellbeing challenges, who can then be referred to treatment, care and support.
The Mental Health in Primary Schools initiative is being expanded to every government and low-fee non-government primary school in Victoria. Scaling up across the state from 2023, by 2026 every primary school will be able to employ a Mental Health and Wellbeing Leader to implement a whole-school approach to wellbeing.
The Department of Education has been piloting the Mental Health in Primary Schools initiative in Victorian schools since 2020 in partnership with the Murdoch Children's Research Institute and the Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne. Evaluation of this pilot initiative has shown that 95 per cent of Mental Health and Wellbeing Leaders consider the Mental Health in Primary Schools model has improved their school's capacity to support students' mental health and wellbeing needs.
Participating schools receive funding to employ a Mental Health and Wellbeing Leader, a qualified teacher, to work across the school to implement a whole-school approach to mental health and wellbeing for students, staff and families based on a broad knowledge of the needs of the school community.
The role of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Leader is to:
The role provides a proactive focus for the promotion and prevention of mental health and wellbeing through assessment and implementation of context-relevant programs, approaches and initiatives based on a broad and extensive knowledge of the needs of the school.
The Mental Health and Wellbeing Leader role is not a clinical role and is not designed for direct intervention. The role is seen as a key conduit in creating referral pathways once a teacher or other staff member identifies a concern in the classroom.
Mental Health and Wellbeing Leaders are provided training in mental health literacy, supporting emerging needs, and building school capacity and receive ongoing support and professional development through structured and regular Learning Communities Training is developed and facilitated by the Faculty of Education at University of Melbourne, supported by Murdoch Children's Research Institute.
Operating in collaboration with their school, leadership and wellbeing team where relevant, the Mental Health and Wellbeing Leader will:
Applicants should be currently registered or eligible for registration with the Victorian Institute of Teaching and qualified to teach.
A qualification in student wellbeing or mental health is desirable but not required
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
To be eligible for employment, transfer or promotion in the principal or teacher class:
Details of qualification requirements as updated from time to time can be found at Recruitment in Schools.