Overview
Work Type: Fixed-term - Full-time
Salary: Salary not specified
Grade: Learning Specialist - Range 3
Occupation: Learning specialist
Location: Hume - Greater Shepparton
Reference:
Selection Criteria
* Demonstrated expertise in inclusive teaching and learning practices, with the capacity to model high-quality, evidence based instructional strategies.
* Demonstrated experience in disability inclusion including planning, implementing and evaluating intervention strategies and adjustments for students and providing feedback to teaching staff to build teacher capacity.
* Demonstrated ability to provide explicit advice to teaching staff to assess and monitor student achievement and learning progress in line with the Victoria Curriculum 2.0, and support teaching staff with effective strategies to engage with parents and families.
* Experience in implementing whole-school wellbeing or behaviour frameworks such as SWPBS.
* Highly developed communication, networking and interpersonal skills including the ability to liaise effectively with a wide range of people.
* Demonstrated ability to provide leadership, professional learning and coaching that informs and influences the work of others involved in the engagement, inclusion and wellbeing of children and young people.
Role
Mooroopna Park Primary School is seeking an enthusiastic and dedicated Learning Specialist to join our leadership team. This is a key position focused on leading Disability Inclusion reform and the implementation of School-Wide Positive Behaviour Support (SWPBS) across the school. The successful applicant will be a dynamic educator with a passion for equity, wellbeing, and building a culture of high expectations for all learners.
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
* Lead and model high-quality, evidence-based teaching practices aligned with the Victorian Teaching and Learning Model 2.0.
* Organising and supporting the completion of DIPs and coordinating funding applications.
* Champion inclusive education practices and support staff in making appropriate adjustments to meet the diverse needs of students with disabilities.
* Drive the implementation and monitoring of the Disability Inclusion Profile process and associated initiatives.
* Lead the development, implementation, and evaluation of SWPBS across all learning environments.
* Provide coaching and professional learning to staff on inclusive practices and positive behaviour strategies.
* Use data to identify student needs, measure impact, and guide school-wide planning and intervention.
* Work collaboratively with leadership, teachers, support staff, families, and external professionals to improve outcomes for all students.
* Support teachers in ensuring each student with additional needs has a quality IEP.
* Promote a culture of high expectations and aspirations for the learning of students with disability or additional needs.
* Build staff capacity to deliver differentiated and modified teaching strategies appropriate for individual students with additional needs.
* Deliver whole school Professional Development to promote inclusive practices.
* Undertake classroom observations to support teachers in the provision of curriculum and appropriate learning activities for Tier 2 and Tier 3 students.
* Organise Professional learning and support for teachers to effectively adjust/modify the learning program to meet the needs of Tier 2 and 3 students.
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
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.
The Department of Education is committed to the principles of equal opportunity, and diversity and inclusion for all. We value diversity and inclusion in all forms - gender, religion, ethnicity, LGBTIQ+, 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 family friendly, supportive, safe and harassment free workplaces is essential to high performance and promotes flexible work, diversity and safety across all schools and Department workplaces. It is our policy to provide reasonable adjustments for persons with a disability (see Workplace adjustment guidelines).
Additional support and advice on the recruitment process is available to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islanders from the Koorie Outcomes Division (KOD) via
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:
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
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
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 Teacher Education program after 1 July 2016, must 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 Initial Teacher Education program completed by the person.
Location Profile
LOCATION PROFILE
Vision
At Mooroopna Park P.S. we provide the best opportunities for successful life-long learning. Students are empowered to strive for excellence by taking responsibility for learning and decision making. Students, teachers and parents are proud to form a partnership for the future.
Mission Statement
Mooroopna Park Primary School is committed to developing respectful, responsible and resilient students who perform academically to the best of their ability, in a safe, friendly and caring environment. We support our students to develop the necessary skills and knowledge to become valued members of the community.
Values
At MPPS we embrace 3 core values:
Friendly, Persistent, Caring
Mooroopna Park Primary School prides itself on being a very inclusive school. We have high expectations of ourselves and others and this is demonstrated in our school expectations of `treating others as we would like to be treated¿. We persist with our learning and care for ourselves and our school. We value diversity and our school motto of ¿growing and learning together¿ underpins the core values of the school. Staff and students work together to develop emotional intelligences so that students understand how to have self-control, self-awareness, be motivated, manage relationships and develop empathy and skills of being friendly, safe and strong.
SCHOOL PROFILE
Mooroopna Park PS is a school of 170 students serving the greater Mooroopna area, a large provincial town within the City of Greater Shepparton. The school, established in 1980, is set in a park like environment with spacious grounds.
In 2025 there are eight composite classrooms. The school has a staff of approximately 32 including ancillary staff. The senior classrooms are in a module building and we have the Foundation and grade one classes in the new BER Learning Centre with the middle years located in stand alone classrooms. The school has a Student Family Occupation Education Index of Approximately 35% of our students are Koori students.
We have started our journey towards aligning our curriculum, instruction and assessment practices to the Science of Reading including explicit, synthetic phonics instruction in Prep-Year One. We have introduced a Structured Literacy approach across the whole school focusing on a knowledge-rich curriculum, vocabulary instruction, syntax and morphology. In the junior years we focus on phonics supported by the Little Learners Love Literacy and our Year 4-6 have focussed on encoding supported by Spelling Mastery. Our numeracy Instructional model includes Explicit Instruction alongside Daily Reviews.
Our school takes a proactive approach to a supportive and caring environment through our Student Wellbeing Program, which is supported by a full time Student Wellbeing Coordinator. Our Wellbeing Program consists of our Oral Language Program, Play Therapy, School Chaplain, School Community Hub, Paediatric Clinic, Healthy Food Program, visiting Dental, Vision and Hearing checks and supports for families such as food and grocery hampers. The school strives to build pro-social behaviours for students to develop emotional intelligences.
A big part of our Wellbeing Program is our Healthy Eating Program where our fulltime Chef provides breakfast, lunch and morning and afternoon tea each day for all students free of charge. We are proud to have been recognised for our efforts in this area by winning the Australian Education Awards for the Best Wellbeing Program in 2020, 2022 and 2023 and the Victorian Early Years Award for Promoting Student Health and Wellbeing in 2023.
We have a number of community partnerships which see volunteers from local businesses and service organisations helping out with reading, wood work, `Build a Bike¿ and gardening. We also offer specialist programs such as art, music, wellbeing and physical education. We have a Wellbeing Teacher who is implementing the Resilience Project and full time Speech Therapist who supports our staff and student and oversees speech therapy student placements. Mooroopna Park PS is a place where learning is valued and is supported by all, and we develop in all students a sense of belonging and inclusion. We strive to develop the three-way partnership of the student, parent and teacher to better create and achieve successful learning opportunities for all students.
Mooroopna Park Primary School has won a number of awards in recent years for our Wellbeing Programs including the Victorian Education Excellence Awards for the Best Education Support Team and our Foundation teacher was a finalist for Outstanding Teacher of The Year. We have an excellent group of experienced teachers and friendly support staff. Our school is a great place to work, where you will be supported and welcomed.
Please visit for further details about our school.
Applications close Monday 18 August 2025 at 11.59pm
Posted
5 August 2025