**Overview**:
**Work Type**:Ongoing - Full-time
**Salary**: Salary not specified
**Grade**:Learning Specialist - Range 3
**Occupation**:Learning specialist
**Location**:Grampians - Ballarat
**Reference**:1485649
**Selection Criteria**:
- KSC 1 Demonstrated high level experience in inclusive education practice (teaching and learning) and developing processes for observation and feedback of teacher practice and peer collaboration.
- KSC2. Demonstrated experience panning, implementing and evaluating evidence-based intervention strategies for students with complex needs and providing feedback to teaching staff to inform their effectiveness and development.
- KSC3. Demonstrated ability to lead collaborative relationships with students, colleagues, parents and the broader community focused on wellbeing and engagement, particularly attendance.
- KSC4. Ability to provide leadership, professional learning and coaching that informs and influences the work of others involved in the engagement and wellbeing of children and young people.
- KSC5. Demonstrated ability to input into the development, implementation and evaluation of policies and strategies relating to mental health and wellbeing.
- KSC6. Demonstrated abiliity to reflect upon their own, others and whole school practice and contribute to the provision of whole school professional learning.
**Role**:
- The Wellbeing Specialist will work collaboratively with school executive team to monitor all students across the school in wellbeing.
- This position requires the successful applicant to:
- To be a member of the school leadership & wellbeing team.
- Support the implementation, development and review of the school Strategic plan and School Annual Implementation plan.
- To look at proactive programs we can use to promote a positive school environment.
- Work in cooperation with other leading teacher coordinators
- To work on improving attendance in the wellbeing team
**Responsibilities**:
- Attend Leadership and Co-ordinators meeting.
- Develop, promote and implement good attendance at school.
- Develop attendance plans where required
- Follow up on any Child safe practices
- Work with the Student Wellbeing officers and any other services.
- Attend weekly Wellbeing meetings
- Provide follow ups to PLCs and teachers on particular students
- Circulate new professional readings and resources.
- To examine any data from a Wellbeing perspective such as Student attitudes, Bullying data, reflections data and attendance data.
- Co-ordinate and manage the attendance data across PLC¿s
- Develop with teachers behaviour management plans for students at need.
- Responsible for Wellbeing resources.
- Coordinate the review, development and implementation of school programs.
- Be involved in the development of the AIP.
- Be a part of the School Wide Positive Behaviour team
- Support our Koorie and indigenous students in the school
- To collaborate with teachers to plan and deliver curriculum and to provide feedback on the quality of curriculum delivery.
- To promote and implement existing DET policy and resources.
- Manage the organization of Professional Learning in Wellbeing and Respectful relationships.
- Manage SSGs for out of home care students.
- Provide professional learning communication to all key stakeholders at the school.
**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.
**EEO AND OHS Commitment**:
**Child Safe Standards**:
- 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:
**DE Values**:
- 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:
**Conditions of Employment**:
- All staff employed by the Department and schools have access to a broad range of employment conditions and working arrangements.
**VIT LANTITE**:
- 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