**Overview**:
**Work Type**:Ongoing - Full-time
**Salary**: Salary not specified
**Grade**:Learning Specialist - Range 3
**Occupation**:Education and training
**Location**:Hume - Greater Shepparton
**Reference**:1485787
**Location Profile**:
**Banmira Specialist School (Formerly Verney Road School)**
- Banmira Specialist School is a vibrant, inclusive learning community supporting over 265 students and 120 dedicated staff across two campuses. We cater to students aged 2.8 to 18 years, providing specialised education tailored to individual needs.
- Opened in 2025, our **Junior Campus** features purpose-built classrooms aligned with our Instructional Model, along with a Community Hub housing a Sensory Room, Perceptual Motor Program space, Library, Art Room, and Parent/Wellbeing Hub. This campus supports approximately 100 students, including those in our Early Education Program.
- Our **Senior Campus**, located on Verney Road, serves around 130 students and includes facilities such as a 'Mini Woolies' supermarket, gym, homecrafts/cooking space, and customised learning areas for secondary-aged students. This campus also hosts Banmira Care, our High-Intensity Out of School Hours Care (OSHC) program.
- Our curriculum follows the **Victorian Early Years Learning & Development Framework (VEYLDF)** for Early Education and Early Primary, while most students engage with the **Victorian Curriculum 2.0**. Senior students (Years 10¿12) primarily undertake the **Victorian Pathways Certificate (VPC)**. We believe that every child can learn, with a focus on maximising independence. Individual Education Plans (IEPs), developed in partnership with families, set personalised goals in English, Maths, Communication, and other priority areas identified through Student Support Group meetings.
- Both campuses emphasise **Independent Living Skills**, preparing students for life beyond school. We also offer a range of **Specialist Programs**, including Music Therapy, Physical Education, and Art/Performing Arts at the Junior Campus, and Music, Physical Education, and Art at the Senior Campus.
- We are incredibly proud of our extensive Allied Health, Wellbeing and Inclusion Teams, which incorporate a range of therapists and specialty trained staff to support with student¿s programming, provide additional therapeutic supports and enhance curriculum delivery.
- Our diverse student population comes from Shepparton, Mooroopna, Numurkah, Murchison, Nathalia, Euroa, Violet Town, and Tatura, with transport available for eligible students.
- Banmira Specialist School provides high-quality education for students with mild, moderate, or severe intellectual disabilities, many with additional diagnoses such as Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD, or Down Syndrome. Some students also present with sensory or physical impairments and complex behavioural needs.
- Our mission is to foster **positive behaviour, enhance communication, support emotional wellbeing, and develop independence** in daily life and learning.
**Our School Values**:
- ¿¿ **Be Secure**:
- We create environments that promote the wellbeing of every member of our school community.
¿¿ **Be Respectful**:
- We value each individual¿s strengths and differences.
¿¿ **Be a Learner**:
- We embrace challenges, learn from mistakes, and persist to achieve success.
**Selection Criteria**:
- Demonstrated high level experience in inclusive education practice (teaching and learning), building school staff capability and developing processes for observation and feedback of teacher practice and peer collaboration.
2. Demonstrated experience planning, implementing and evaluating evidence-based intervention strategies for students with disabilities and providing feedback to teaching staff to inform their effectiveness and development.
3. Demonstrated ability to input into the development, implementation and evaluation of processes and strategies relating to teaching students with disability and diverse learning needs in a range of school settings.
4. Demonstrated ability to provide explicit advice to teaching staff to assess and monitor student achievement and learning progress in line with the Victorian curriculum, and support teaching staff with effective strategies to engage with parents and families, including reporting on student progress.
5. Highly developed communication, networking and interpersonal skills including the ability to liaise effectively with a wide range of people.
6. Ability to provide leadership, professional learning and coaching that informs and influences the work of others involved in the engagement and wellbeing of children and young people.
Context
The Disability Inclusion reform agenda announced in the 2020/21 State Budget will invest more than $1.5 billion into the Victorian Education system over four years. This investment will support the
Department of Education (the Department) to further improve outcomes for schools and students with disability and diverse
📌 Inclusion Outreach Coach
🏢 Victorian Government
📍 Shepparton