Student Support Services Team Leader

Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time / asap to 19th September, 2025

Organisation: Department of Education

**Salary**: $109,730 - $132,764

Occupation: Health and Allied Health

Reference: VG/1833395

An exciting opportunity exists for an energetic Allied Health professional to join Student Support Services (SSS) in the North East Melbourne Area. You will be highly self-motivated and lead a multi-disciplinary team of professionals to support schools in providing student wellbeing services and improving student learning outcomes. You will be innovative and highly flexible, with the ability to work within your team, and lead your team in delivering evidence-based initiatives in schools. You will contribute to the wider Area approach to identifying barriers to student learning and wellbeing. For more information see the Departments website DE Allied Health Careers.

**Fixed-Term/Full-Time (duration until 19th September, 2025)**

The SSS Team Leader has responsibilities for:

- Managing a local team of SSS employees to support a group of schools in the delivery of student support services to improve student learning and wellbeing.
- In collaboration with schools, identifying, developing and coordinating strategies aimed at quality universal services for all students and supporting schools in addressing wellbeing issues early.
- Collaborating with the Area team with the implementation of evidence based and multi-disciplinary approaches.
- In conjunction with the SSS Branch Manager, coordinate effective responses to emergencies and critical incidents.
- Provide professional leadership that supports the work of others and their professional development, including supervision.
- Provide authoritative professional advice to management, school leaders and team members, including strategies to improve learning for students with additional needs.
- Advise and direct team members in their work, particularly in relation to breaking the link between socio-economic disadvantage and student achievement.
- Engage and negotiate with community service organisations, DFFH, hospitals, specialist programs and other professionals regarding the support needs for students and schools.
- Manage a small caseload of complex cases and/or complex issues that support schools in meeting Education State targets.
- Collaborate with Senior Education Improvement Leaders (SEILs) to target service delivery and additional support to schools to improve student learning outcomes.

**Why Student Support Services?**

SSS comprise a broad range of Allied Health professions including psychologists, speech pathologists, social workers.

Working in SSS is deeply meaningful, highly rewarding, challenging, and dynamic and gives you the opportunity to make a positive contribution to the life of children and young people, their families, schools, and communities. You'll work with a diverse group of people who share a common goal, and you will be well supported to use your professional skills and knowledge to provide specialised support at the individual, group, school, and area level.

As part of an Area based multi-disciplinary health, wellbeing, and inclusion team, you will work to help build the capability of schools to support student achievement, engagement, and wellbeing.

**What can we offer you?**

The work we do matters greatly, and there are few comparable opportunities to shape the life of children and young people for the better.

You will have access to a broad range of benefits including:

- flexible working arrangements;
- professional development and learning opportunities;
- a competitive salary with salary progression;
- a range of salary packaging options; and
- generous leave entitlements, including purchasing additional leave.

We know that the success of our State depends on the success of our people. If you are driven by a desire to contribute to the big picture, and the future success of our children and our State, then a career working in our SSS allied health workforce is for you.

**Applications close at 11:59pm on Monday 16th of December 2024