Leading Teacher - Inclusion And Wellbeing

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Job description

Leading Teacher - Inclusion and Wellbeing

Schools (Government)

Applications close Sunday 30 March 2025 at 11.59PM

Overview

Work type: Full time

Salary: Salary not specified

Grade: Leading Teacher Range 3

Occupation: Teacher

Location: Sunbury

Reference: 1469314

Location Profile

Sunbury College is a vibrant, cohesive and inclusive school located 35km (about 30 minutes' drive) from the CBD in Melbourne's north-west growth corridor. The College holds the values of respect, responsibility, resilience, and endeavour as guiding principles. It has a focus on the academic growth, personal development, and general wellbeing of each student. It is greatly valued by its local community of Sunbury and surrounds.

The student enrolment is currently 1000. The staff are a mixture of mature, experienced teachers in the expert range along with a number of graduates providing the school with an energetic mix. Our staff are committed, professional, and collaborative. They value continuous improvement and development.

A comprehensive curriculum is offered from years 7-12, including VET options, and the College is organised around three sub-schools (Years 7-8, 9-10, 11-12) and four houses. The College has well-established co-curricular programs with high interest and success in sport, the performing arts, student leadership, and student engagement activities.

Sunbury College is set on eight hectares and has well-established facilities in the final stages of being modernised. Our new classrooms and science building are now fully established.

Our strategic directions going forward have a strong emphasis on pedagogical development and on student agency and voice in their learning. The College aims to provide a post compulsory program, counselling, and advice that maximises the further education, training, and employment options for all students. As part of its focus on student engagement and wellbeing, the College has undertaken to provide a supportive and productive learning environment supported by positive student and teacher relationships that promotes overall wellbeing and engaged, motivated learners with a strong sense of connection to the school community.

Selection Criteria

1. SC1: Demonstrated expert knowledge of the relevant curriculum. Ability to lead and manage the implementation of school priorities and the teaching of literacy and numeracy skills across the curriculum.
2. SC2: Demonstrated ability to lead the planning and implementation of high impact teaching strategies that respond to student learning needs. Ability to support teachers to evaluate the impact of learning and teaching programs on student learning growth.
3. 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. 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.
4. SC4: Demonstrated exemplary interpersonal and leadership skills. Ability to lead collaborative relationships with students, colleagues, parents, and the broader school community focused on student learning, agency, wellbeing, and engagement.
5. SC5: Demonstrated ability to model behaviours and attitudes consistent with Department values and support colleagues to adopt these behaviours and attitudes. Ability to reflect upon their own, others, and whole-school practice and contribute to the provision of whole-school professional learning.
6. SC6: Demonstrated knowledge and experience working with students, families, and services in the Program for Students with Disabilities and / or Disability Inclusion.

Role

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.

Who May Apply

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.

Responsibilities

Leading Teacher- Inclusion and Wellbeing

The key priorities of this position are:

• Leading the Sunbury College Inclusion and Wellbeing team
• Liaising with the school’s Student Support Services key contact as required
• Administer Disability Inclusion Profile meetings and support the most appropriate school staff in this process
• Leading the selection and referral process for Disability Inclusion and Wellbeing student support
• Building staff capacity to understand, implement, and embed disability inclusion across the school, including best practice in modelling, peer observations, and team teaching
• Collaborate with the Principal team to prioritise Disability Inclusion funding to resource evidence-based reasonable adjustments and programs for individual students and cohorts of students at Sunbury College
• Embedding Inclusion and Wellbeing expertise, direction, and actions in the school’s Annual Implementation Plan and policy and process documents.

Applications close Sunday 30 March 2025 at 11.59PM