Location Profile
COBURN PRIMARY SCHOOL
Address: Richard Road, Melton South
Telephone: (03) 9971 2***
Email Address: *********@education.vic.gov.au
Contact Person: Ms Karen Wood
School Hours: 8:50am to 3:15pm
School profile: Learn to Live
Join Coburn Primary School - A Place Where Students and Staff Thrive
At Coburn Primary School, we believe that wellbeing is the foundation for achievement. Our staff work together in a caring, collaborative environment where every child¿s social, emotional and academic growth is nurtured.
Set in an established garden setting in Melton South, beside the Blackwood Reserve, Coburn offers a calm environment for 586 students. Our wellbeing hub, the `World of Wonder¿, SWPBS focus, breakfast club, emotional learning plans and restorative practices we ensure students feel safe, supported and ready to learn.
When our students are Happy, Relaxed and Engaged the outcomes follow.
We are exceptionally well resourced with our outdoor play spaces across the school, a STEM and Performing Arts hub, wet and dry Art rooms, a modern Gymnasium and a newly built dedicated wellbeing hub for allied health services that support the school and families.
With one-to-one iPads, our specialist programs consists of STEM, Arts, Physical Education and Auslan. We also adopt strong instructional coaching across curriculum portfolios. We are a school that invests in both staff and student growth. Our Professional Learning Communities use data and evidence based practice to drive excellence across all areas.
Our values - Respect, Responsibility, Cooperation and Excellence - shape a culture of kindness and high expectations from all stakeholders. If you want to be part of a team where the new principal has a glass half full attitude, has been awarded GOLD in SWPBS for the past 4 year and ensures that she puts people before programs and wellbeing at the heart of learning, Coburn is the place for you!
Selection Criteria
SC1. Educational Leadership
Demonstrated capacity to lead a whole-school teaching and learning agenda that improves student outcomes in literacy and numeracy ensuring consistency of practice, high expectations, and collective efficacy across all teams.
SC2. Leading Teaching and Learning
Proven ability to design, implement, and evaluate evidence-based teaching and learning strategies that strengthen teacher capacity and professional growth. Capacity to lead Professional Learning Teams (PLTs), embed peer observations, and align teacher development with school priorities.
SC3. Management of the School
Demonstrated ability to contribute to the effective management of school operations, including workforce planning, curriculum development, and the use of assessment and data literacy to inform whole-school decision making.
SC4. Development of the School in the Wider Community
Capacity to strengthen partnerships with parents, carers, community groups, and external agencies to support student learning, wellbeing, and engagement. Demonstrated ability to foster inclusion, build culture, and promote the school's vision and values across the community.
SC5. Leading Improvement, Innovation and Change
Demonstrated experience in leading whole-school improvement initiatives that build culture, collaboration, and shared accountability. Proven ability to introduce and sustain innovative practices such as School-Wide Positive Behaviour Support (SWPBS) and inclusive education practices, ensuring staff are supported to manage behaviour positively and effectively.
SC6 Disability Inclusion
Preferred experience in leading and coordinating the Disability Inclusion Profile (DIP) process with proven success, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and meaningful collaboration with staff, families, and external professionals to secure appropriate supports and resources. Demonstrated success in building staff capacity by delivering ongoing, evidence-based professional development, complemented by practical advice and resources, to support the effective implementation of adjustments and inclusive practices for all students with additional needs.
Role
The assistant principal reports directly to the principal.
Assistant principals have a primary responsibility for the management of significant areas or functions within the school to ensure the effective development, provision and evaluation of the school's education program. In exercising the responsibility, assistant principals will have the authority to make all significant decisions relating to the program, budget and staff relating to their area of designated responsibility within the framework of the school's strategic plan, policies and budget. Assistant principals will contribute to the overall management of the school through involvement in policy formulation and decision making.
The management of significant school program or functional areas in schools involve assistant principals in the analysis of the needs of students and the translation of state educational policy and frameworks into appropriate education programs to meet the needs of all students.
Typically assistant principals will be responsible for the effective use of the teaching staff and program budget of a defined area of the school's operation and for the oversight and leadership of the educational programs provided utilising these resources.
Responsibilities
Typically, assistant principals perform one or more of the following functions:
- supervision and coordination of the work of senior curriculum or level coordinators;
- allocation of budgets, positions of responsibility and other resources within the area of responsibility;
- supervision of the delivery of teaching programs;
- management of programs to improve the knowledge and experience of staff;
- responsibility for general discipline matters beyond the management of classroom teachers and year level coordinators;
- contribute to the overall management of the school;
Who May Apply
Appropriately qualified individuals currently registered or eligible for registration with the Victorian Institute of Teaching.
Diversity and Inclusion
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 *******@education.vic.gov.au
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.
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:
https://www2.education.vic.gov.au/pal/child-protected-standards/policy
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:
https://www2.education.vic.gov.au/pal/values-department-vps-school-employees/overview
Other Information
- All staff employed by the department and schools have access to a broad range of employment conditions and working arrangements.
- Appointment of successful applicants will be made subject to a satisfactory pre-employment conditions check.
- A probationary period may apply during the first year of employment and induction and support programs provided.
- Detailed information on all terms and conditions of employment is available on the Department's Human Resources website at http://www.education.vic.gov.au/hrweb/Pages/default.aspx
Please ensure that your application includes:
- A resume including relevant experience as well as personal details (name, address and contact numbers, business and home)
- A section addressing the selection criteria and the requirements for application under the Who May Apply section
- Names and contact numbers (telephone and email if possible) of two referees who are able to attest to the claims made in your application.
Please note that the selection panel may seek additional referees beyond those you name. Consistent with policy, we shall advise you if we will take this action.
Conditions of Employment
- All staff employed by the Department and schools have access to a broad range of employment conditions and working arrangements.
- Appointment of successful applicants will be made subject to a satisfactory pre-employment conditions check.
- A probationary period may apply during the first year of employment and induction and support programs provided.
- Detailed information on all terms and conditions of employment is available on the Department's Human Resources website at http://www.education.vic.gov.au/hrweb/Pages/default.aspx
Qualification Requirements
To be eligible for employment, transfer or promotion in the principal or teacher class:
- The person must have provisional or full registration approved by the Victorian Institute of Teaching; and
- if the person completed an Australian postgraduate level initial teaching program or course of study on or after 1 January 2024, they must demonstrate that they have satisfactorily completed a postgraduate level accredited initial teacher education program that has been accredited by an Australian State or Territory Teacher Regulatory Authority as satisfying the requirements of the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership 'Accreditation of initial teacher education programs in Australia: Standards and Procedures'; and
- a person who graduated from a Victorian Initial Teacher Education (ITE) program after 1 July 2016 must also 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 ITE program completed by the person).
Details of qualification requirements as updated from time to time can be found at Recruitment in Schools.
📌 Assistant Principal-Range 1 Student Wellbeing / Behaviour Management
🏢 Department of Education Victoria
📍 Melton South