Assistant Principal Range 1

**Overview**: **Work Type**:Ongoing - Full-time **Salary**: Salary not specified **Grade**:Assistant Principal - Range 1 **Occupation**:Principal and assistant principal **Location**:Melbourne - Eastern suburbs **Reference**:1488403 **Location Profile**: **COLLEGE PROFILE, VISION AND VALUES** Lyndhurst Secondary College is situated just north of Cranbourne in the south-western corner of the City of Casey - one of the fastest growing municipalities in Australia. Our college has an enrolment of 840 students and is projected to rise further. Over recent years, the cultural mix of the College has evolved, with students coming from over 50 backgrounds and nationalities. Our College Vision, "Empowering students for learning and life", is lived on a daily basis through both our classroom practices and co-curricular opportunities. Our College Values are excellence, commitment, integrity, and respect, with an overarching belief in high expectations for all. These are recognised with students through an active SWPBS framework known as Lyndhurst Legacy whereby staff can recognise students for their demonstration of College Values to accumulate points, which contribute to regular awards given at year level and whole school assemblies. **WHAT DO OUR STUDENTS AND STAFF SAY ABOUT LYNDHURST SECONDARY COLLEGE?** In the 2024 Student Attitudes to School Survey, our students reported positive results that were above both similar schools AND state results in EVERY single measure. This includes important areas such as effective classroom behaviour, stimulated learning, having an advocate at school, a sense of connectedness and high expectations for success. In the 2024 School Staff Survey, our staff reported positive results that were at or above both similar schools AND state results in 27 of a total 31 measures. This includes important factors such as having a collective focus on student learning, instructional leadership and staff safety and wellbeing. **COLLEGE-WIDE APPROACH TO KNOWING OUR STUDENTS** The Lyndhurst Secondary College community is committed to providing a safe, challenging and stimulating learning environment for all students. We have school-wide, consistent approaches to classroom routines and classroom/behaviour management to ensure that our students can be ready to learn and can achieve success, as well as ensure staff are supported to make every minute of learning time effective. In 2024, we commenced the work of implementing the Berry Street Education Model framework, with all staff undertaking 4 days of professional learning. We also have a daily 10-minute home group and weekly Mentor period where teachers work with the same teacher who deeply knows their group of young people and works with them to build their learning to learn skills, improve their wellbeing and connection and investigate future careers and pathways. **CURRICULUM OFFERINGS** **STUDENT VOICE AND AGENCY** As a college, we understand the importance of student voice and agency in relation to school connectedness. As result, there are extensive leadership opportunities available to students across a range of areas within the College community. We also support our young people with an extensive and highly skilled Wellbeing Team, as well as connecting with a variety of community-based groups. **CURRENT STRATEGIC FOCUS** Presently the major focus for staff is to develop classroom curriculum and pedagogy through a range of evidence-based teaching and learning strategies, to further improve outcomes for students. The objective is to teach each student's point of need, regardless of where they on the learning continuum. This, alongside the development of whole-school frameworks and implementation of the Berry Street Education Model are key components of our Annual Implementation Plan. **Selection Criteria**: **SC 1**:**Educational Leadership** - Outstanding capacity for visionary and exemplary educational leadership of a school or college. - Highly developed skills in leading and managing change including the leadership of others in the process of change. **SC**2: Financial, Managerial and Administrative Ability** - Outstanding financial, organisational and resource management skills. **SC 3: Planning, Policy and Program Development and Review** - Exemplary values appropriate to the development of student learning with a demonstrated capacity to achieve high quality student outcomes. - An understanding of, and a commitment to, the use of learning technologies to improve teaching and learning. - Demonstrated ability to implement Department policies to a high level. **SC 4**:Leadership of Staff and Students** - A highly developed capacity to motivate staff, develop their talents and build an effective team. - A clear capacity to foster a learning environment that takes account of the individual needs of students and helps students to develop their special abilities and talents. **SC 5: Interpersonal and Communication Skills*