Student Wellbeing Worker

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

**Salary**: Salary not specified

**Grade**:Education Support - Level 1, Range 3

**Occupation**:Education and training

**Location**:Melbourne - Northern suburbs

**Reference**:1484297

**Location Profile**:

- Charles La Trobe P-12 College is a diverse and inclusive learning community. Charles La Trobe College is a multi-campus setting and operates under a 'one¿ college model effectively entailing six entities being La Trobe Primary and Secondary, Olympic Village Primary, The Pavilion School, Quantum Victoria and a Deaf Facility. The work of staff is driven by commitment to our Instructional Model and Teaching and Learning Charter that are underpinned by our Professional Learning Communities. Our staff understand their students and expect that they will achieve to their full potential. We offer education programs that cater for students diverse interests to promote engagement in learning this enables each student to achieve to their full potential. The **Berry Street Education Model (BSEM)** is the foundation for our approach to wellbeing and engagement, and **Ramon Lewis' Developmental Approach to Classroom Management** guides our work with classroom and behaviour management. We compliment these approaches with **Restorative Practices** and the **Classroom Mastery** model. We build the capacity of all our learners to achieve their personal best. We are also very proud of our student cohort with all staff and students holding mutual strong expectations to live our values of respect, excellence, acceptance and leadership, everyday. Staff and students share and develop positive constructive relationships.
- Our College is a vibrant organisation where each part of the organisation caters for contextual needs, while building powerful connections to each other. The **La Trobe Campus** currently has 375 enrolments, across **Primary** and **Secondary**, and an SFOE of 0.4704. In addition to our core curriculum, in which we focus upon developing literacy and numeracy skills and VCE and VCE VM, we offer a range of enriched I.T. opportunities including STEM Club, Minecraft, Animation Club, Astronomy Club and Media Club. Our STEM programs prepare students for the future world of work, in which creativity and problem solving will be critical skills are well supported by our partnership with Quantum Victoria, which operates onsite. Our Primary School operates a Kitchen Garden Program as well as Instrumental Music. La Trobe has excellent learning spaces, built for transparency yet enclosing of sound, with teaching conducted in rooms which promote a safe and orderly learning environment. Our **Facility** caters for hearing impaired students with classrooms equipped with hearing technology and our staff comprised of interpreters as well as the College running AUSLAN from Primary to Secondary. The facility program provides positive education experiences for secondary aged students who are deaf or are hard of hearing.
- The International Student Program, operating at both La Trobe and Olympic Village supports our students to become members of the global community. Engagement with the community and promotion of diversity are highly valued aspects of College life. We offer a REAL Education curriculum (based on our school values) to enable students to develop strong interpersonal and social capabilities. We pride ourselves on being a community that welcomes all students and families. Our International Student Program supports our students to become members of the global community.
- All campuses is are heavily invested and involved in the **Science of Language and Reading (SOLAR)**, **Writing Across the Curriculum (WATC) and Science of Math (SOM)** in partnership with La Trobe University. Staff across the college work in Professional Learning Communities, additionally at the La Trobe Campus small teams of teachers work in Professional Engagement Teams (PETs) where they drive an Action Research Cycle to focus on improving student outcomes in frequent and regular rotations. In our secondary setting we have a full VCE program offering 22 studies.

**Olympic Village Primary School** is a campus of Charles La Trobe College, and is located in Heidelberg West. The campus currently has an enrolment of 137 students, and a SFOE of 0.594. A grant of over $6 million dollars was received in 2018 to re-build the site entirely. This building work was completed in September 2019. 7 Stand alone grades are in operation with 7 international students. 23 students receive PSD/DI Funding and recent data is showing signs of growth across cohorts for NAPLAN.
- Charles La Trobe College is committed to providing enrichment education experiences for all our students. This goal is supported by our partnerships with **La Trobe University**and** Quantum Victoria**. Quantum Victoria is an important part of our College, and is one of six State specialist Mathematics and Science Centres. This partnership pr