Principal Advisor, Mental Health

2 months ago

Sunshine Coast, Australia Education Full time

**About the Department**:
The Department of Education is dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce that reflects the community and schools we support by treating everyone with respect and dignity. This starts with recruitment and selection. The methods of assessing suitability in the recruitment process may vary. This includes making reasonable adjustments to support applicants at all stages of the process and employee lifecycle.
**About the Role**:
Principal Advisor, Mental Health strengthens the capacity of Queensland state schools by providing a key point of contact for support and advice to principals, school leaders and regional staff about student mental health and wellbeing.
**As the Principal Advisor, Mental Health you will**:

- Support the delivery of high quality and effective approaches to mental health in state schools, ensuring that the outcomes are aligned to, and supportive of, the department's agenda for improvement in schools.
- Provide high level strategic advice to senior officers of the department and other key stakeholders on issues relevant to the specific accountabilities of the role.

**Responsibilities include**:

- Liaise with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the effective implementation of Early Childhood and State Schools Division priorities for all students in state schools.
- Provide authoritative, expert advice to the Director, senior executives and other internal stakeholders to inform and implement high quality, effective mental health and wellbeing services that support delivery of the department's strategic priorities.
- Provide high level advice and support to key stakeholders to lead an inclusive, safe and supportive learning environment.
- Support the development and implementation of whole-of-school approaches to social and emotional learning programs.
- Build staff knowledge, responsiveness and capacity in regards to mental health and wellbeing and provide leadership to enhance schools' capability to integrate social and emotional wellbeing across all school activities and the curriculum.
- Support regional staff and school leadership teams to work collaboratively to create environments that enhance the engagement of all students, including those students who are most at risk of mental health issues, disengagement, suspension and cancellation of enrolment.
- Support schools to appreciate and respect diversity including students with disabilities, students with complex and challenging behaviours, sexually diverse, intersex and transgender students, Indigenous students, refugee students, different ethnic groups and students with a mental illness.
- Assist schools to develop whole-of-school referral pathways for students requiring additional support, complex case management or interagency involvement to support positive behaviour learning.
- Coordinate and promote more integrated and targeted school mental health promotion in the provision of mental health services, collecting and analysing data and information in relation to mental health needs and service delivery.
- Improve strategic selection and use of mental health resources that are tailored to the school's needs and contexts.

**Interested? To Apply**:

- Attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant work history).
- Attach a 2-page response to the How you will/may be assessed section of the attached role description.

We welcome all applicants to share any support needed to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive. Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department.
Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.
When working in regulated employment an employee must have a current Working with Children Clearance (blue card) issued by Blue Card Services.
Salary rate shown is reflective of full-time (1.0 FTE).
The Department of Education is a family inclusive workplace. Click here to find out more about our Inclusion and Diversity strategies.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.

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