Head of Department

2 months ago

Brisbane, Australia Education Full time

About the Department of Education
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.
**Your Role**:
The Head of Department - Student Services (Head of Year) will be responsible for working with the Executive Principal and the Leadership and Management Team to enact the school's ongoing improvement agenda. The successful applicants will significantly contribute to a high expectations school culture that is focussed on continuous improvement to maximise each student's performance and potential. This will be achieved through proactively developing the growth of students with your cohort by tracking and connecting their academic and social outcomes to provide a holistic view of each student.You will be instrumental in working as part of the school's leadership team to provide targeted and timely interventions to maximise each students' learning. You will develop and nurture positive working relationships with, and between, students, parents and staff to personalise education for individual students in a large and complex school community.As the Head of Department - Student Services, you will have responsibility for but not limited to the following:

- Setting and maintaining high standards for student performance by leading your cohort to uphold the spirit of State High with a specific focus on improving learning outcomes and fostering a growth mindset.
- Providing leadership and guidance for the implementation of innovative measures aimed at improving student learning outcomes and attendance ensuring quality learning outcomes for all students.
- Leading a culture of developing effective learning behaviours that enable each student to develop intellectually, personally and socially.
- Accessing, tracking, connecting and analysing student data on a weekly/term/semester basis to target improvements in academic and social outcomes.
- Initiating and monitoring individual student learning plans by connecting and engaging key stakeholders in the student's life as required.
- Maintaining a high visibility and presence within the school community.
- Identifying and regularly acknowledging, the progress, efforts, achievements of students in your cohort.
- Embedding socially just practices in daily school life.
- Actively participating in learning and ongoing professional development that enable you to improve both as a leader and a classroom teacher.
- Maintain and develop productive and positive partnerships with parents, all staff, other government agencies and community groups to maximise each student's performance and potential.

**About You**:

- This role will be suited to an energetic and strengths-focused individual who has the ability to lead both strategically and operationally towards shared goals.

**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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