Position Details
Department for Education
Job reference: 841800
Location: 5025 - FLINDERS PARK, 5168 - NOARLUNGA CENTRE, 5290 - MOUNT GAMBIER
Job status: Long Term Contract
Eligibility: Open to Everyone
Working as part of a larger multidisciplinary team, and in partnership with schools, preschools and families, you will provide proactive, targeted, and intensive intervention services to support children and students with additional learning needs.
About The Roles
Consultancy, coaching, capability building and cultural responsiveness underpins Behaviour Support Educators work.
Responsibilities
Provide proactive, preventative, and targeted services to assist sites to meet the needs of children and young people with additional needs. This includes support and interventions for individual children and young people, groups, classes and whole of preschool and school; as well as consultation with education staff, families, and other professionals to improve preschool and school-wide practices and policies. They promote a restorative approach to behaviour development and explore the purpose of behaviour to understand precipitating factors.
The Behaviour Support Educators apply evidence-informed interventions in a range of contexts that support the promotion of socially acceptable and positive behaviour and prevent, reduce, or redirect unsafe and/or unproductive behaviours. They work to improve families' and preschools and schools' understanding of behaviour and to develop their capabilities to provide consistent, fair and equitable responses to behaviour that foster trust.
Behaviour Support Educators work collaboratively with the school leadership team to build school capability to address and support students with additional behavioural needs. They work closely with school and preschool staff to embed inclusive pedagogies that ensure the learning environment reflects the diversity and experiences of children and young people.
Supports Children & Students Who Have
* Developmental delay/disability
* Learning difficulties
* Displayed unsafe and/or unproductive behaviours
* Health or wellbeing needs
* Challenges with disengagement or non-attendance
* Communication difficulties
Qualifications
Essential: Current full teacher registration
Desirable: Nil
Special Conditions
The successful applicant is required to gain a Department for Human Services (DHS) working with children check (WWCC) prior to being employed which is required to be renewed every five years before expiry.
The incumbent will be required to undertake RRHAN –EC (Responding to Risks of Harm, Abuse and Neglect - Education Care) Facilitator Lead (Masterclass) extended course or the online (Fundamentals) course which will be required to be updated every three years.
For all other Special Conditions please refer to the attached Position Description.
Remuneration
STL2 $139,260 per annum (1.0 FTE) + superannuation (12%)
EEO Statement
People of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent and/or those who have a disability are strongly encouraged to apply.
Flexibility Statement
The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.
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