**Overview**:
**Work type**:Part time
**Salary**:Salary not specified
**Grade**:Casual Ed Support Lvl1-Range2
**Occupation**: Other
**Location**: Colac-Otway
**Reference**: 1481246
**Selection Criteria**:
KSC1 - Demonstrated strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise tasks
KSC2 - Demonstrated strong interpersonal and communication skills
KSC3 - Demonstrated a level of initiative to complete tasks in a timely manner
KSC4 - Demonstrated capacity to work effectively in a team and take direction from teachers and school leadership
**Role**:
Victoria has secured funding from the Australian Government¿s Workload Reduction Fund to trial a new type of Education Support role in schools to reduce teacher workload. The Operational Teaching Assistant (OTA)* will play an integral role in supporting a reduction in teacher workload. The role involves performing a variety of tasks typically undertaken by teachers that do not require a teaching qualification, VIT registration, or the specific skills and knowledge of a teacher. The OTA* will undertake these responsibilities and reduce the workload of teachers.
**Responsibilities**:
Participating schools must ensure that the responsibilities assigned to an OTA are designed to reduce teacher workload.
OTA roles and responsibilities will align with those of an Education Support level 1 range 2 position in accordance with the Victorian Government Schools Agreement (VGSA) 2022. Schools must tailor the role within the parameters of the VGSA, the program guidelines and the unique context of their school.
An education support class position at this range will perform tasks that are carried out in accordance with guidelines, accepted practice, and school policy under supervision and direction.
An education support class position supports the educational services being provided to students but must not include duties of a teacher as defined in clause 2.6.1 of the _Education and Training Reform Act 2006 (Vic)_ or its successor.
The responsibilities for this role may include:
- Setting up for a particular event, sourcing or collating learning materials, assisting with preparing equipment for students with additional needs, recording student attendance.
- Collection of and administration related to permission notes and payments for activities, such as camps and excursions; booking buses and venues; completing risk assessments and associated documentation and purchasing event specific supplies.
- Supporting teachers to communicate with parents/carers through the relevant school platform, such as classroom specific events or reminders.
- Following school-determined processes for actioning external service requests, such as NDIS providers. For example, booking rooms, developing timetables, collecting and checking permissions and updating routine records for teachers.
- Complete template documents for camps and excursions.
- Complete displays and publications following the event/activity.
- Other activities associated to the role.
This role does not involve working with students; it is supporting the administrative and operational work of teachers.
**Who May Apply**:
Individuals with the aptitude, experience and/or qualifications to fulfill the specific requirements of the position.
**EEO AND OHS Commitment**:
**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:
**Conditions of Employment**:
- All staff employed by the Department and schools have access to a broad range of employment conditions and working arrangements.
**Location Profile**:
Lavers Hill K-12 College is set over two campuses. Our main Lavers Hill campus is a welcoming rural College, located on the Great Ocean Road in the Otway Ranges. The College is set in extensive grounds with excellent recreational and sporting facilities. We offer an enriching variety of programs for developing students¿ learning and social potential.
Our second campus in Colac is a Flexible Learning Options (FLOs) school, known as the Greater Otways Applied Learning School (GOALS). GOALS aims to re-engage young people who are currently disengaged from any form of education, by providing them with a flexib