Department for Education
Job reference: 709477
Location: 5600 - WHYALLA, 5700 - PORT AUGUSTA
Job status: Long Term Contract
Eligibility: Open to Everyone
Why work with us
Every child and young person deserves a great education.
We have a strategy that aims to unlock every child’s potential now and into the future, one that in partnership with learners, students, parents and the wider South Australian community will build a world-leading public education system. One that is equitable and prioritises learning and wellbeing.
Together we will make our education system the best it can be.
When our children and young people thrive, so do our communities and our state.
About the role
Consultancy, coaching, capability building and cultural responsiveness underpins Behaviour Support Educator work.
Behaviour support educators 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.
Behaviour support educators practice according to the following evidenced-based frameworks:
- Positive Behaviour Learning
- Trauma-Informed practice
- Restorative Practice
- Verbal interventions plus disengagement
- Australian Professional Standards for teachers
Behaviour Support Educators work as part of a larger multidisciplinary team in Student Support Services (SSS) who provide proactive, targeted, and intensive intervention services to support additional needs of learners. The SSS team works in partnership with schools, preschools and families and may be available for children and 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.
Student Support Services are on a cultural response journey, as such we value and prioritise Aboriginal ways of knowing, doing and being.
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%)
Enquiries
Enquiries can be directed to Helen Trinidad, Senior Educator, via tel: (08) 8648 8775 or email: helen.trinidad@sa.gov.au
Application instructions
Applications should be made through the IWorkForSA website.
Applicants are required to submit a CV, the Application Cover Sheet, Employment Declaration, and a cover letter of no more than two pages addressing the key competencies in the attached position description.
People of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent and/or those who have a disability are strongly encouraged to apply.
There are two positions available:
Both positions are a full time contract role (1.0 FTE), initial 12-month term contract.
Applications close: 30/11/2025 11:30 PM