About the Role:
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.
The 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
Qualifications:
Essential: Current full teacher registration
Desirable: Nil.