Student Wellbeing Co-ordinator

Location: Geelong

Job type: Full time / From 07/10/2024 - 19/09/2025

Organisation: Schools (Government)

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Education and Training

Reference: 1431450

**Selection Criteria**:
**SC 1 **Experience in the coordination and delivery of positive, proactive, and preventative programs or groups to promote positive health and wellbeing.

**SC 2 **Experience in the delivery of professional therapeutic interventions for students in response to an identified need.

**SC 3 **Demonstrated ability to provide professional leadership, collaboration with, and guidance for a team of wellbeing professionals.

**SC 4 **Demonstrated understanding of common approaches, policies, and research relating to student mental health, wellbeing, and engagement.

**SC 5 **Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to work collaboratively and network with the wide range of people within the education and wider community.

**Role**:

- Collaborate and work alongside dynamic 'Engagement and Wellbeing¿ team aligned with the 'WHC Being model¿. Be an active member of the SWPB team. Actively be a member of the TGP community and other links. Be a s student advocate to support attendance and engagement.

**Responsibilities**:
**Coordinate and mange the EAW meeting**
- Create Agenda and minutes
- Monitor referrals daily
- Set up and maintain WHC Being case note system
- Support referrals and parent carer consent to TGP/Meli

**Support and develop**:

- Pre
- professional placements and programs, liaise with key contacts with universities and allied health
- Staff PL on Mandatory reporting
- Work with SSS team on staff training opportunities
- Support attendance team and working with Navigator
- EAW PL co-ordinator for the team 'social stencil¿¿.

**Programs**
- Health and wellbeing day
- Man Cave
- Life changer
- Vic Pol
- GYE Key contact
- Year level education and programs / work with Secondary nurse and Lawyers in schools program
- Develop/ Co-create and implement evidence-based programs to supports students skill set based on data and goals.
- Mange and implement lunch time programs and games to engage all students
- Lead SRC with staff and students
- DET initiative implementation
- RRRR

**Preventions**:

- Coordinate prevention and programs with the team
- Coordinate and support Inclusion and engagement work
- Be an active member of the transitions team for year 6 into 7
- Work with external agencies

**Promotions**:

- Newsletter
- Socials
- Parent/carer engagement
- Support and mentor pre-professionals

**Collect and collate EAW data sets**:

- Referral term reports
- Co-ordinate and activate team feedback on critical incidents using the evaluation process
- Produce termly EAW reports to present at PCO

**Case management**:

- Case load in working with students 1.1 counselling
- Creating and implementing group work in relations to:

- Zones of regulation
- Peer relationships
- Group work linked in with engagement

**Who May Apply**:
Individuals with the aptitude, experience and/or qualifications to fulfill the specific requirements of the position.

**EEO AND OHS Commitment**:
**Child Safe Standards**:
Victorian government schools are child safe environments. Our schools actively promote the safety and wellbeing of all students, and all school staff are committed to protecting students from abuse or harm in the school environment, in accordance with their legal obligations including child safe standards. All schools have a Child Safety Code of Conduct consistent with the department's exemplar available at:
**DE Values**:
The department's employees commit to upholding the department's Values: Responsiveness, Integrity, Impartiality, Accountability, Respect, Leadership and Human Rights. The department's Values complement each school's own values and underpin the behaviours the community expects of Victorian public sector employees, including those who work in Victorian Government Schools. Information on the department values is available at:
**Conditions of Employment**:

- All staff employed by the Department and schools have access to a broad range of employment conditions and working arrangements.

**Location Profile**:
Western Heights College is a government co-educational single campus secondary college located in the heart of the Hamlyn Heights, Herne Hill and the Geelong West region just a short drive from the Geelong city centre, the Geelong Ring Road and nearby rural towns. The college is located within state-of-the-art modern buildings which connect learning, to our community and reflects our leading-edge work in curriculum design and delivery for our community.

The college¿s purpose is to empower students to strive for success and excellence in their educational journey with a focus on learning growth, high expectations, holistic well-being, creativity and innovation reflected strongly in the schools 3 values community, courage and integrity. Stag