Mental Health Practitioner

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

**Salary**: Salary not specified

**Grade**:Education Support - Level 1, Range 4

**Occupation**:Health and allied health

**Location**:Melbourne - Northern suburbs

**Reference**:1491117

**Location Profile**:

- Hume Valley School is a special school with a current enrolment of 372**students from 5 to 18 years of age. The school population represents a broad range of socio-economic and multicultural backgrounds.
- The main school campus in Koroit Avenue accommodates students from Prep to Year 2 and Year 7 to Year 10. Our newly established Narrun Campus, co-located with Dallas Brooks Community Primary School, accommodate our students from Year 3 to Year 6, inclusive and our Tanderrum Way campus, co-located within Hume Central Senior Secondary College, caters for our Years 11 and 12 students.

**School facilities include**:

- a large gymnasium, stage and performing arts centre
- fully productive school and kitchen gardens in which students work and learn horticultural and environmental sustainability skills
- a well-equipped food technology centre
- a school cafe
- a visual arts room and project room
- traffic safety education course and teaching facilities
- eLearning Centre
- First Aid and change room facilities
- Fully accessible and inclusive learning spaces

**Our Vision**is to create an inclusive, safe, respectful and engaged learning community where all students are motivated and enabled to maximise their social, personal, educational and post school potential.

**Values**
- The school values, **Respect,** **Responsibility**and **Resilience**are embedded in all school policies and practices**.** At the centre of the school¿s values are the expectations that all students be ready for learning, respect themselves and others, act safely and care for their school.

**Teaching and Learning**
- The school community is committed to creating a vibrant educational environment where students and their learning are highly valued.
- The school offers individual educational planning for each student. The comprehensive curriculum is designed to enable inclusive and flexible approaches to learning to accommodate the various learning styles and special needs of all students.
- Personal Learning Support Plan Goals are set at the Student Support Group meetings held at the beginning of the year and reviewed throughout the year. The individually planned programs are based on the student¿s abilities, strengths and interests with particular emphasis on English, Mathematics, Science, Humanities, Personal and Social Capabilities.
- Specialist programs are provided in the areas of Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Instrumental Music, Physical Education and Inter School Sport, Traffic Safety Education, Outdoor Education, Food Technology, Gardening and environmental sustainability (Prep to Year 9) and Horticulture (Years 10 to 12), Media & Design, Independent Living Skills, Health & Safety, Careers Education and Vocational Training.
- All programs focus on the development of literacy and numeracy skills, behaviour and social skills, creative and recreation skills and for older students, independence and work/industry skills. Enrichment programs include travel training, a community access (excursion) program and the highly engaging community connections and mentoring programs.

**School Community**
- The Hume Valley School Community, parents, staff and students, work cooperatively to ensure a safe, professional approach to providing a quality education.
- Parent and community group programs and activities are facilitated within the school to provide support for families in coping with the challenges of nurturing children with disabilities. These programs include regular parent group meeting, events and information sessions.
- The school has an excellent history of achievement in meeting the needs of the students. It provides a supportive learning environment in which the students feel secure, and develop self-esteem by experiencing success.

**Selection Criteria**:

- Ability to implement a range of small group and whole-school mental health prevention and promotion activities aimed at improving student mental health and wellbeing, including the delivery of capability building and awareness raising activities for staff and/or students on key mental health and wellbeing issues affecting the school’s student population.
- Demonstrated ability to input into the development, implementation and evaluation of processes and strategies aimed at enhancing mental health and wellbeing prevention, promotion and early intervention.
- Demonstrated experience in assessing, conceptualising and analysing wellbeing issues, and providing evidence-based direct counselling support to clients with a range of mental health needs.
- Demonstrated experience in coordinating supports for young people with complex needs including referrals to a range of specialist services as appropriate.
- Highly developed co