Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan
Job type: Full time / From 24/02/2025
Organisation: Schools (Government)
**Salary**: Salary not specified
Occupation: Education and Training
Reference: 1458978
**Location Profile**:
**About the Department**
The Department of Education leads the delivery of education and development services to children, young people and adults both directly through government schools and indirectly through the regulation and funding of early childhood services, non-government schools and training programs.
The Department is delivering Disability Inclusion (DI) to transform the way students with disability are supported in Victorian government schools. DI is providing a range of supports, tools, guidance and training to ensure schools can provide an inclusive environment for all members of their school community. DI is also delivering a new tiered funding approach and strength-based process to identify students¿ strengths and needs.
**Role Context**
Schools and Regional Services comprises 17 Areas within four regions across the state, as well as 5 central Divisions. The responsibilities of Schools and Regional Services include:
- service delivery including performance, contract management, funding delivery and acquittal
- program implementation including detailed implementation planning and delivery
- local area engagement, advice, support and partnerships
- workforce capability development, professional practice leadership and delivery
- emergency management including critical incident response
- supporting strong regional partnerships with early childhood services, schools and other education providers to deliver high-quality services and outcomes with a 0-18 focus.
The regional model is designed to:
- connect between central government policy and the delivery of high quality services to Victorians
- drive outcomes across all stages of learning through expert advice and support
- connect with families, service providers, schools and communities
- lead, collaborate and partner at a local level to overcome social and economic challenges facing our communities, towns and cities
- deliver health, wellbeing and support services to children, young people and their families to assist them in their learning and development
- improve connectedness and transitions between important points in a child¿s life - such as between early childhood, kindergarten, school and tertiary education
- assist and support children and young people who are vulnerable, disengaged, and those with disabilities or challenging behaviour.
**Selection Criteria**:
- Substantial experience in teaching students with additional learning or wellbeing needs in a relevant setting and preferably experience working with schools in the area of inclusive practices.
- Demonstrated capacity to work within a collaborative, multidisciplinary professional team and contribute significantly to the achievements of the team.
- Demonstrated ability to design, deliver or broker professional learning for teachers and other relevant professionals, on relevant topics such as physical disabilities, health impairments, additional learning needs, and appropriate teaching and learning strategies delivered in part via tele-practice where relevant.
- Demonstrated excellent teaching and learning skills, and substantial experience to promote full access and inclusion for students with physical disability and/or autism, vision and hearing impairment.
- Demonstrated high level communication skills, networking and interpersonal skills, including the ability to liaise effectively with a wide range of people in the education community and agencies on complex matters.
**Role**:
To support the implementation of Disability Inclusion, the Visiting Teacher Service provides leadership and capability building for teachers and schools in the provision of effective curriculum and pedagogy to support student engagement, access and inclusion for students with disability or impairment in the areas of, physical disability, health impairment, autism, vision impairment and hearing impairment.
The Visiting Teacher assists schools and school staff to understand both the functional needs of students and the, development and implementation of inclusive practices. This may include but not be limited to the development of appropriate educational programs, modifications, reasonable adjustments and collective and individualised supports for students with a disability. A component of the role could include service delivery via tele-practice.
**Responsibilities**:
Visiting teachers undertake a variety of roles and responsibilities that may include (but are not limited to):
Support Whole School Initiatives:
- Providing specialist advice and support to schools in the planning, development, delivery and evaluation of curriculum to ensure full access and inclusion for students with physical disability and/or health impairment, hearing impairment, and vision impa