Ongoing Flexible Learning Option

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

**Salary**: Salary not specified

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

**Occupation**:Education and training

**Location**:Melbourne - Western suburbs

**Reference**:1482831

**Location Profile**:

- Melton FLO (Flexible Learning Options) cater for secondary school students who are disengaged, or at risk of disengaging, with mainstream schooling within the Melton and Brimbank area of Victoria, where student referrals are received directly from these secondary schools. The key objectives of our FLO programs are to support and re-engage students with positive learning experiences in an alternative flexible education setting to improve their literacy, numeracy, and personal development and to re-engage with mainstream education, or transition into further education, training and/or employment.
- Melton FLO offers three accredited re-engagement FLO programs:

- CaLM (Community and Learning Melton)
- FLIP (Flexible Learning Intervention Pathway)
- Victorian Pathways Certificate (VPC)
- The CaLM campus located in Kurunjang, Victoria, is registered as a campus of Melton Secondary College with all FLO programs operating within Department of Education Victoria policies, procedures, and guidelines.
- The CaLM and VPC programs operate out of the CaLM campus located in Kurunjang, Victoria whereas students within the FLIP program have a blended learning timetable where they study online from home and are also provided face to face education support at the Melton Library and the CaLM campus. The CaLM program caters for up to 35 students from year 7-10 and FLIP caters for up to 60 year 7-10 students. The VPC is offered for up to 15 Melton FLO students. Many FLO students have experienced a degree of trauma and present with learning difficulties, social, emotional, and mental health issues, low attendance, and challenging behaviours.
- The Melton FLO programs have a team of highly trained staff including a Campus Principal, three Leading Teachers, eight teachers, three Education Support staff, a Wellbeing Coordinator, a Transitions and Pathways Advisor, an Education Support Leader, and an Administration Assistant.

The FLO programs aim to support students to re-engage with mainstream education or follow a positive pathway into further education or training. It is personalised and aligned with the year 7-10 Victorian Curriculum and supported by a therapeutic approach based on the Berry Street Education Model. Onsite class sizes are small, and the academic program consists of literacy, numeracy, personal development, health, sport, nutrition, arts, music, technology, pathway planning and work-related skills. FLIP Melton is an online personalised program which seeks to reconnect students with learning, to engage them as leaders of their own learning and to help them achieve the learning and personal goals they negotiate through and directly with their Learning Mentor (VIT registered teacher).

**Vision**: At Melton FLO we are committed to providing all students an engaging, empowering, and inclusive learning environment where they feel **safe**, **respected** and can achieve their **personal best** - academically, emotionally, and socially.

**Safety**:

- We prioritise the physical and emotional safety of all members of Melton FLO by creating and maintaining an inclusive learning environment where everyone feels protected from harm, bullying, discrimination, and any form of violence.

Safety enables everyone to feel comfortable without fear or judgement of individual needs.

**Respect**:

- We respect ourselves, others, and our environment by showing kindness and acceptance towards the opinions, backgrounds, and unique abilities of all members of Melton FLO.

Respect is demonstrated by considering shared spaces, resources, and expectations.

**Personal best**:

- We encourage all members of Melton FLO to continuously challenge, reflect and persist in reaching our personal best.

Personal best is developing and enhancing ourselves emotionally, socially, and academically.

**Melton FLO staff purpose**
- The Melton FLO team exists to develop others to enable student growth.
- Our overarching school goal is to further develop a learning environment that engages students in their own learning and supports the development of positive wellbeing and behaviours. Our school vision of 'At Melton FLO we are committed to providing all students an engaging, empowering, and inclusive learning environment where they feel **safe**, **respected** and can achieve their **personal best**¿ academically, emotionally, and socially¿ recognises that young people need both access to high levels of academic learning as well as social and emotional learning as described in the Capabilities of the Victorian Curriculum. Students will develop these capabilities when the explicit teaching of positive behaviours and mindsets occurs throughout the curriculum and daily interactions with staff. Student