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: 1504126
Wattle Glen Primary School is nestled in the leafy, semi-rural suburb of Wattle Glen. Our welcoming and dynamic learning environment supports a growing student population, with 155 enrolments in 2025, up from 92 in 2023.
Our school features a blend of modern and flexible learning spaces, including:
We deliver a comprehensive, evidence-based curriculum, ensuring every student is challenged and supported. Our specialist programs include:
Our Tutor Learning Program provides targeted literacy and numeracy support, including both intervention and extension opportunities.
Our high-achieving students are catered for within the classroom learning program through differentiated instruction and are further challenged with extension activities such as participation in the Maths Olympiad. Our upper school students are academically challenged through participation in "Novel Navigators" and our junior school students through "Book Explorers" , where they extend their knowledge and comprehension skills by engaging with shared literature and rich discussions.
Our school community collaboratively established our core values: Respect, Kindness, Resilience and Curiosity. We are committed to fostering a positive school culture. Since introducing the School-Wide Positive Behaviour Supports (SWPBS) initiative in 2022, we have achieved both Bronze and Silver accreditation, with ongoing efforts to further embed these practices.
At Wattle Glen Primary, we believe that strong connections between home and school creates the best outcomes for students. Our Attitudes to School Survey, Staff Survey, and Parent/Caregiver/Guardian Survey results consistently reflect high levels of engagement and satisfaction. We are proud to be a thriving, supportive, and forward-thinking school¿where students are empowered to take ownership of their learning and future.
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
Please note: This role will be a shared role across three separate schools, with the base school being Wattle Glen Primary School - with an FTE of 0.40 and an FTE of 0.20 at Arthurs Creek Primary School and 0.20 FTE at Diamond Valley Secondary College. Days & times to be negotiated.