Student Wellbeing

**Overview**:
**Work Type**:Ongoing - Full-time

**Salary**: Salary not specified

**Grade**:Leading Teacher - Range 3

**Occupation**:Leading teacher

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

**Reference**:1489961

**Location Profile**:

- Our Vision: Every student knows they belong. Every student recognises and achieves their academic potential.

Our Values
- Kindness
- We are positive and kind. We look after each other and our community.

Respect
- We act with integrity and include everyone. We take responsibility for our actions and our learning

Courage
- We challenge ourselves to try new things, to be true to who we are and to be the best people we can be.

At Brunswick North Primary School, our students flourish and experience success through our commitment to explicit instruction principles and the science of learning, ensuring every student reaches their academic potential. We cultivate a meaningful and engaging learning environment where growth and achievement are celebrated.

Our inclusive environment enables all students to experience success through a comprehensive multi-tiered system of supports for both learning and wellbeing. This includes our school-wide positive behaviour support framework and evidence-based positive psychology practices through the Visible Wellbeing program.

Staff excellence is supported through our targeted and comprehensive professional learning program. We work collaboratively as a whole school, in teams, and as individuals to continually improve our practice, modelling the growth mindset we instil in our students. Every teacher participates in our instructional coaching program, empowering them to effectively implement knowledge gained through professional learning sessions.

Our school community works in partnership with us, actively supporting student learning and wellbeing both within and beyond the classroom.

**Selection Criteria**:
**SC1** Demonstrated expert knowledge of the relevant curriculum. Demonstrated ability to model exemplary teaching practice, including the teaching of literacy and numeracy skills across the curriculum, and implement school priorities.

**SC2** Demonstrated capacity to lead the implementation of evidence-based practices and modelling of High Impact Wellbeing Strategies that respond to student learning and wellbeing needs.

**SC3** Demonstrated high level ability to support others in using data to inform teaching practice and to provide feedback on student wellbeing growth and achievement to colleagues, students and parents.

**SC4** Demonstrated exemplary interpersonal and leadership skills. Demonstrated ability to lead collaborative relationships with students, colleagues, parents and the broader school community focused on student learning and wellbeing.

**SC 5** Demonstrated high-level knowledge, and exemplary skills to promote and facilitate a tiered approach to inclusive education for all students and to lead and facilitate Student Wellbeing.

**SC 6**Demonstrated capacity to lead colleagues to maintain a positive, safe and orderly learning and teaching environment in a positive, proactive and passionate way.

**Role**:

- Leading teachers will be highly skilled classroom practitioners and undertake leadership and management roles commensurate with their salary range. The role of leading teachers is to improve the skill, knowledge and performance of the teaching workforce in a school or group of schools and to improve the curriculum program of a school.
- Typically, leading teachers are responsible for coordinating a number of staff to achieve improvements in teaching and learning which may involve the coordination and professional support of colleagues through modelling, collaborating and coaching and using processes that develop knowledge, practice and professional engagement in others.
- Leading teachers are expected to lead and manage a significant area or function within the school with a high degree of independence to ensure the effective development, provision and evaluation of the school's education program.
- Leading teachers will be expected to make a significant contribution to policy development relating to teaching and learning in the school. A leading teacher has a direct impact and influence on the achievement of the school goals.
- Leading teachers are usually responsible for the implementation of one or more priorities contained in the school strategic plan.

**Responsibilities**:

- In recognition of the importance of leadership and management combined with exemplary teaching practice for improved student learning outcomes, the key roles of the leading teachers may include but are not limited to:

- Leading and managing the implementation of whole-school improvement initiatives related to the school strategic plan and school priorities
- Leading and managing the implementation of whole-school improvement strategies related to curriculum planning and delivery;
- Leading and managing the provision o