Student Wellbeing and Support

Location: Melbourne | Eastern Metropolitan

Job type: Part time / From 27/01/2025 - 23/01/2026

Organisation: Schools (Government)

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Education and Training

Reference: 1455343

**Selection Criteria**:

- Experience in providing support to children and young people and their families to address social and emotional needs.
- Ability to provide pastoral care, advocacy and critical incident response to support for children and young people, school staff and families.
- Experience in delivering wellbeing services within a multidisciplinary team.
- Ability to support schools and teachers to identify and develop educational, social and emotional programs to support children and young people who are vulnerable or at risk.
- Ability to support children and young people in out-of-home care or those impacted by trauma.

Ability to liaise with community service organisations, government agencies, hospitals, specialist programs and other allied health professionals.

**Role**:

- providing support in areas such as student attendance, engagement and mental health
- providing students, their families and staff with support and/or appropriate referrals in difficult situations such as during times of grief, or when students are facing personal or emotional challenges

This position is for chaplains and student wellbeing officers funded via the National Student Wellbeing Program.

**Who May Apply**:
Individuals with the aptitude, experience and/or qualifications to fulfill the specific requirements of the position.

**EEO AND OHS Commitment**:
**Child Safe Standards**:
Victorian government schools are child safe environments. Our schools actively promote the safety and wellbeing of all students, and all school staff are committed to protecting students from abuse or harm in the school environment, in accordance with their legal obligations including child safe standards. All schools have a Child Safety Code of Conduct consistent with the department's exemplar available at:
**DE Values**:
The department's employees commit to upholding the department's Values: Responsiveness, Integrity, Impartiality, Accountability, Respect, Leadership and Human Rights. The department's Values complement each school's own values and underpin the behaviours the community expects of Victorian public sector employees, including those who work in Victorian Government Schools. Information on the department values is available at:
**Location Profile**:
**Tecoma Primary School Profile**

Tecoma Primary School strives to create a responsive, cooperative, innovative teaching and learning environment.

We aim for development of the whole person as a committed lifelong learner, who embraces self-development, achievement and contribute to their community.

Tecoma Primary School is situated in the foothills of the Dandenong Ranges on Melbourne's Outer-Eastern fringe, central to the township of Tecoma. The school opened as a part time school with Menzies Creek, in a two room shack called the Pines. The name of the school changed from Upper Ferntree Gully, to Upwey, then Belgrave and finally Tecoma in 1961. Since its opening, Tecoma Primary has established a proud history of providing high quality education to students that are drawn predominantly from Tecoma, Belgrave and Upwey.

Tecoma Primary School is an integral part of the community and has developed and maintains an excellent reputation. It strongly emphasises the importance of a close home-school partnership. This emphasis is reflected in the day-to-day involvement of parents in school activities and participation in decision-making. Families are generally very supportive of the school and each other. A genuine feeling of community spirit surrounds the school, with school facilities often being used after hours by other community groups.

The school will have 364 children enrolled in 2025 consisting of 16 classes and supported by a specialist program consisting of Music, Art, Science, Japanese and Physical Education.

**TECOMA PRIMARY SCHOOL MISSION STATEMENT**

**_ Tecoma Primary School strives to create a responsive, cooperative, innovative teaching and learning environment._**

**_ We aim for development of the whole person as a committed lifelong learner, who embraces self-development, achievement and contribute to their community._**

**_ To deliver a curriculum which has been designed to maximise opportunities for all students to experience learning success and to cater for a range of student abilities and interests._**

**_ We strongly promote our school values of personal best, respect, resilience and creativity through example and our student recognition program that rewards positive behaviours._**

**LEARNING PROGRAMS**

Tecoma Primary School provides a balanced and inclusive curriculum, meeting children¿s academic, social and emotional needs and levels of development.

Following a strong Transition Program from preschool, the school offers a co