Head of House Manifold

Geelong Grammar School is one of the world’s leading co-educational boarding and day schools. Offering exceptional educational opportunities across four campuses from Early Learning to Year 12, Geelong Grammar School is committed to making a positive difference for students, staff, and the community. We believe in prioritising wellbeing, creativity, and academic rigour. Our character is compassionate, curious, and courageous, and we achieve our goals through working ethically, collaboratively, inclusively, progressively and with substantiation.

We seek to appoint an enthusiastic teacher and pastoral care practitioner, with a proven record of excellence and an ability for creating an exciting and safe learning and boarding environment to the role of Head of House. This position requires outstanding educational expertise, excellent communication and coordination skills and a proven ability to provide leadership at all levels within a school community.

**About the role**:
All teaching staff are actively involved in the co-curricular and the pastoral care programmes within Day and Boarding Houses and play a significant role in enhancing the resiliency and wellbeing of students through the delivery of Positive Education.

This position is required to work day, afternoon and evening shifts, as well as weekends and overnights.

Key responsibilities include:

- Leading the welfare and supervision of students in their care
- Enabling tutorial, counselling, discipline and routine arrangements that will promote the development and wellbeing of individual students, as well as responsible community behaviour
- Enabling engagement with the tenets of holistic education to develop and foster a sense of community in the House and in the broader School
- Encouraging the development of student leadership, as reflected through the quality of House and School spirit
- Liaising with academic staff about the needs of individual students in their House (i.e. difficulties and disabilities)
- Liaising with parents and guardians about their child’s progress and to promote links between the House and the parent body.
- Working in a collegial way with all Heads of House on the Heads of House Team, and other welfare and health support staff (Kennedy Medical Centre).
- Attending to all compliance matters, including safety protocols and accurate record keeping, ensuring appropriate records of students are maintained, as required
- Advising on the allocation of staff, including House Assistants (Boarding Houses only) and to encourage the professional learning and development of House staff in matters of pastoral care and wellbeing
- Reviewing and managing the performance of staff within the House
- Managing House budgets
- Leading and managing staff allocated to the House. This includes ensuring house is always staffed appropriately and staffing of the house is strategically planned
- Supporting the development of staff, induction of new staff into the boarding house processes and performance management of staff as required

**About you**:
To be successful in this role you will need:

- Registration as a Teacher with the Victorian Institute of Teaching, which includes a National Police Check undertaken by VIT
- To be able to demonstrate a Proficient Level in all the AITSL Australian Professional Standards for Teachers
- Experience and knowledge of individual academic and pastoral care programmes for students with diverse abilities and needs
- It is a condition of employment that Teachers must possess First Aid qualifications and have current Anaphylaxis Management Accreditation

The following qualification is highly desirable:

- Post graduate qualifications in Boarding Management, Education or Student Welfare or Business Administration/Management and Leadership

Geelong Grammar School is committed to the safety of all students and has a zero tolerance of student abuse.

Applications close at **4.00pm on**Thursday 20th March 2025**
- Head of House PDPosted Date
- 07 Mar 2025Location
- Geelong
VIC / AustraliaIndustry
- Education & TrainingJob TypeSalary
- Not provided