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 - Eastern suburbs

**Reference**:1492503

**Location Profile**:

- Lilydale Heights College is a single campus co-educational 7 to 12 College located in the northern area of Lilydale.

Established in 1970, Lilydale Heights College has anticipated and responded positively to change and as a result has met community needs. The College, which draws its student population from a diverse range of backgrounds, has recently seen significant investment in the development of new buildings and learning spaces designed to support a positive, inclusive environment where all students are able to learn and grow.

**Working at Lilydale Heights College**
- Staff at Lilydale Heights College report high satisfaction in working at our school. We provide a working environment that fosters trust amongst colleagues with a collective focus on student learning. Staff work collaboratively to consistently improve learning and teaching, engaging in regular professional development to build capacity. We have strong, positive responses in our Staff Opinion Survey with teachers and education support staff rating Lilydale Heights College significantly higher than similar schools and the state in all areas measured. We work as a team at Lilydale Heights College and value working collaboratively with a shared focus on improving the learning growth of all students.

**Maximising learning growth to ensure that all students can thrive**
- Lilydale Heights College is a fully inclusive learning community that enables all students to become aspirational learners and responsible global citizens. Our purpose is to Maximise learning growth to ensure that all students can thrive. This purpose is underpinned by our three core values:
**Excellence**:Challenging yourself to achieve your best.

**Respect**:Holding yourself, others and our environment in high regard.

**Responsibility**:Being accountable for all your actions.

At Lilydale Heights College, we prioritise Academic Excellence and Learning Growth. Our collective challenge, embraced by students, teachers, and support staff, is to continually pursue excellence. We understand that every student is unique, and we strive to create an inclusive, supportive, and stimulating learning environment that caters to each student's point of need and optimises their learning growth. We have a rich variety of opportunities for students to discover their passions and identify their future pathways. Our educational program is wide and varied and our record of success is outstanding.
- Guided by our College values of Excellence, Respect and Responsibility, we are dedicated to building a culture of high expectations, innovation, and excellence to empower and energise our community so that the learning for all students is maximised. By embracing these values, our students not only excel academically but also become compassionate and responsible global citizens.
- Lilydale Heights College has a strong and supportive College Council that ensures that the school continues to excel in everything we do. In addition, we have a structured leadership profile where every child has a Learning Leader, Student Liaison Coordinator and SELF teacher to help support their learning. Students are also supported in their learning through the work of our Student Engagement and Wellbeing Team and our Careers Team. This structure allows Lilydale Heights College to support every individual student and assist them in their journey throughout their secondary schooling life and beyond.

Beyond the classroom students are encouraged to involve themselves in the broad co-curricular program. Learning here takes place in many shapes and forms. Students have the opportunity to participate fully on the sporting field, in music ensembles, on the stage, in student leadership activities, Vocational Education and Training courses, in the Technology, Hospitality and Foods areas, to travel to our sister school in Japan, as well as to attend local camps around Victoria and Australia.

**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.
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