First Aid Officer

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

**Salary**: Salary not specified

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

**Occupation**:Health and allied health

**Location**:Melbourne - Eastern suburbs

**Reference**:1491498

**Location Profile**:
**Time fraction 1.0 - fulltime - the role is advertised as fulltime however, there is flexibility of this role being part-time working 5 days 8:30am 3:30pm to the selected applicant.**

Cranbourne East Secondary College (CESC), located in the Hunt Club Estate, adjacent to Cranbourne East Primary School and Marnebek School, was established in 2011. The College is in Cranbourne East, approximately 55 kilometers south-east from Melbourne CBD.

The Cranbourne East community and cohort is very multicultural, with a significant number of students born overseas and coming from language backgrounds other than English. Students from refugee backgrounds make up approximately 5.4% of the entire cohort, EAL students 7.6%, and >1% of students are indigenous.**The 2024 SFOE index is 0.4403.

As a Public Private Partnership school, we continue to experience rapid enrolment growth, with a year 7-12 enrolment exceeding 2100 students, and expected incremental growth over the next few years.

The College currently has approximately 235 full-time and part-time staff that compose of teaching, education support, leadership, principal class, allied health, and paraprofessional staff. The Leadership Team is made up of an Executive Principal, 9 Assistant Principals, 14 Learning Specialists, 26 Leading Teachers, and 3 ES Leaders.

Cranbourne East Secondary College continues to develop a strong sense of community through areas of focus including house culture, student voice and agency, attendance and connectedness, transitions, SWPBS, and wellbeing.

CESC is known and respected for the high expectations we have of our entire community, in all aspects of college life. These expectations extend beyond agreed behaviours and are ingrained in the learning that students are demonstrating in the classroom and form the basis for our comprehensive extra-curricular programs.

At Cranbourne East Secondary College, we stand by our purpose and motto:
¿Giving every student, every opportunity to exceed their potential by providing a high-quality pathway to success.¿

We endeavour to promote an atmosphere of mutual respect, understanding and co-operation which is underpinned by our College values of Respect, Growth, Achievement, and Responsibility.

It is these values that form the basis of our positive school-wide behaviour recognition which also encompasses extra-curricular engagement, leadership, and community service.

Strategic focus areas to improve NAPLAN (Reading, Writing, and Numeracy) alongside student experiences, linked to Attitudes to School Survey, are on an upwards trend. There have been marked improvements in AtoSS in 2024 and 2025 alongside an increase to Year 9 students performing in the Strong and Exceeding bands in NAPLAN.

The College is organised into year level teams for both students and teachers. Year Levels are led by teams of teaching and ES staff, overseen by a Sub-School Assistant Principal. Teams include leadership in the space of connectedness, engagement, transition, and voice and agency.

English, Maths, Science, Humanities, and Health and Physical Education are compulsory from Years 7 to 10 with the Arts, Technology and Languages compulsory in years 7 to 9 and offered as electives in year 10.

Enrichment and support interventions are numerus at the College, including Connect 4 Success, Effective Reading Program, English and Mathematics enrichment classes, Applied Learning Programs, and Hands on Learning. Equal are the extra-curricular opportunities like Inter-School Sport, instrumental music program, and annual College Production.

Our highly resourced careers team ensures each of our students are provided quality individual counselling towards their chosen career pathway, whilst supporting careers education from year 7 in our Pastoral Program.

Our college wide, Instructional Model & Professional Learning Teams drive our teaching and learning practices. This approach to teaching and learning promotes consistency between learning areas and year levels, and supports targeted pedagogical approaches, using data, to meet students at their point of need to promote growth and achievement for every child.

We recognise and value the importance of wellbeing for all our students and in response have a dedicated team overseeing an extensive range of supports that ensure our students enter our classrooms ready to learn. This team works closely with sub-school leaders and work extends into the classroom with a collective focus on trauma-informed practices, SWPBS, and tiered supports.

**Selection Criteria**:
**SC1** Demonstrated capacity to perform duties consistent with established guidelines and frameworks, including coordinating and supporting others in respect to specif