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**Overview**:
**Work Type**:Fixed-term - Part-time

**Salary**: Salary not specified

**Grade**:Education Support - Level 1, Range 2

**Occupation**:Land, asset, resources and facilities management

**Location**:Melbourne - Southern suburbs

**Reference**:1484733

**Selection Criteria**:
**SC1** Demonstrated capacity to perform duties consistent with established guidelines and frameworks, including coordinating and supporting others in respect to specific work functions relevant to the role.

**SC2** Demonstrated capacity to work and collaborate with others in a team environment.

**SC3** Demonstrated capacity to communicate effectively in a team environment, including high level oral and written communication skills.

**SC4** Possess the technical knowledge and expertise relevant to the position.

**SC5** Demonstrated capacity to provide advice and support to management and other school staff in respect to the work area.

**SC6** A commitment to professional learning and growth for both self and others.

**Role**:

- Maintenance of the school buildings and grounds.

**Responsibilities**:

- Manage the use and maintenance of equipment within the school grounds
- Ensure security is maintained within a work area.
- Manage procedures relating to the maintenance of school buildings and grounds.
- Evaluate and select equipment and materials and make recommendations to senior management.
- Develop procedures relating to the use and maintenance of equipment and materials.
- Coordinate the purchase of equipment and materials.

**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**:

- Mahogany Rise Primary School is a small school with 144 enrolments situated in Frankston North; a disadvantaged area on the fringe of Melbourne with longstanding socio-economic issues which have a significant impact on the education and wellbeing outcomes of its children and young people.

The Frankston North Education Plan (FNEP) aims to transform the area with long-term improved educational and community outcomes. It is a comprehensive plan for early years, primary and secondary education with a focus on improving student outcomes and ensuring readiness for transition through each stage of education be it primary, secondary, tertiary or alternative training pathways and options. Working closely together the three schools in the area will offer high quality education from birth to adulthood, act as the platform for the delivery of many health and welfare services and open their facilities for extensive community use. It is an expectation that all staff are genuinely committed to working with young people in the schools and aspire to the vision of the FNEP, that "Every child and family is successful in learning and life."

With the pillars of the FNEP forming our core purpose, Mahogany Rise Primary School strives with relentless tenacity to ensure that every student is able to achieve to the highest standard possible. We provide a clear and consistent message to all students around their learning and have implemented programs to support this learning and additional activities to broaden the horizons of all students.

We have developed a whole of school approach in Literacy, Numeracy and Student Wellbeing. These approaches mean that we have expectations on all who work in this school to be able to work within the structures and programs that are in existence. We have Literacy, Numeracy and Well-being coordinators who work across the whole school. We are very driven to achieving the best possible outcomes for all students.

The school has a wide range of support services, which have evolved and developed over the years. Speech Pathology, Psychology, Paediatric consultation, Youth worker and a school chaplain are all available on site and are an integral component for developi