Staff Dev

**Overview**:
**Work Type**:Fixed-term - Part-time

**Salary**: Salary not specified

**Grade**:Classroom Teacher

**Occupation**:Health and allied health

**Location**:Melbourne - CBD and Inner Metro suburbs

**Reference**:1484884

**Location Profile**:

- SCHOOL OVERVIEW
- Carlton Primary School is a small, inner city school located close to Lygon Street and the University of Melbourne. We are a partner in the Carlton Learning Precinct, an integrated family services, early childhood and primary school model. The school has state of the art, flexible learning spaces over three levels. Our school takes pride in its reputation as a welcoming, diverse community focused school. Our Guiding Principle is that we strive to be a caring school which meets the needs of all students through a rich and engaging curriculum.
- Carlton Primary School is a community united by a shared belief in the following values
- Achievement
- Relationships
- Respect
- Diversity
- Carlton Primary School has a long and successful history of responding to the needs of a culturally diverse population and a strong sense of community. Together, these features contribute to a rich learning experience for all students. Working in partnership with our families at Carlton Primary School, we encourage our students to reflect on their values, cultural identity and beliefs, whilst celebrating the many benefits of living in our culturally diverse nation.
- Our school services a vibrant, resilient community. Our school families represent more than eight nationalities and languages. Over ninety-five per cent of our students are from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds. The demographic profile of our local community means that Carlton Primary School is an extremely high-needs school, having an SFO (Student Family Occupation) index of.75 which is one of the highest of all government schools in the State.
- As outlined in the Carlton Primary School Strategic Plan (2022-2025), the school¿s two main goals are
- To improve learning growth for all students in literacy and numeracy.
- To improve connections and wellbeing of all students.
- Team planning is an important part of our teaching with all classes engaged in detailed program implementation and evaluation. All areas of the Victorian Curriculum are addressed with particular emphasis given to literacy. Our teachers have experience and knowledge in teaching students from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds.

**Selection Criteria**:

- SC1 'Content of teaching and learning'. Demonstrated ability to inform and influence the work of others involved in the engagement, mental health, wellbeing or learning of children and young people.
- SC2 'Teaching practice'. Demonstrated ability to input into the development, implementation and evaluation of processes and strategies relating to mental health, wellbeing or learning.
- SC3 'Assessment and reporting of student learning'. Demonstrated ability to support a student's mental health, wellbeing or learning by developing and maintaining connection with external services.
- SC4 'Interaction with the school community'. Demonstrated high level interpersonal skills and communication skills. Demonstrated high level of capability to establish and maintain collaborative relationships with students, parents, other employees and the broader school community to focus on student learning, wellbeing and engagement.
- SC5 'Professional requirements'. Demonstrated ability to influence and negotiate by gaining buy-in and ownership for ideas, gaining agreement to proposals, or involving experts or other third parties to strengthen a case.

**Role**:

- The Royal Commission into Victoria's Mental Health System highlighted that primary schools provide opportunities to identify children with mental health and wellbeing challenges, who can then be referred to treatment, care and support.
- The Mental Health in Primary Schools initiative is being expanded to every government and low-fee non-government primary school in Victoria. Scaling up across the state from 2023, by 2026 every primary school will be able to employ a Mental Health and Wellbeing Leader to implement a whole-school approach to wellbeing.
- The Department of Education has been piloting the Mental Health in Primary Schools initiative in Victorian schools since 2020 in partnership with the Murdoch Children's Research Institute and the Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne. Evaluation of this pilot initiative has shown that 95 per cent of Mental Health and Wellbeing Leaders consider the Mental Health in Primary Schools model has improved their school's capacity to support students' mental health and wellbeing needs.
- Participating schools receive funding to employ a **Mental Health and Wellbeing Leader**, a qualified teacher, to work across the school to implement a whole-school approach to mental health and wellbeing for students, staff and families based on a broa