Coach - Reading (Term 4 Start) 2nd New Position

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

**Salary**: Salary not specified

**Grade**:Learning Specialist - Range 3

**Occupation**:Learning specialist

**Location**:Melbourne - Western suburbs

**Reference**:1488052

**Location Profile**:

- Located on beautiful Wurundjeri Country, Strathtulloh Primary School has been educating with HEART since 2022. We are a brand-new state of the art school, located in the suburb of Strathtulloh. We opened in January 2022 with 710 students already growing to over 1350 students and employing over 160 staff in 2025.
- Our students are phenomenal and eager learners who are beautifully behaved and respectful. We are supported by families and a community which really values and supports education and our school.

School Wide Positive Behaviour Support (SWPBS) and Respectful Relationships (RR) feature strongly at our school, along with a culture that supports positive, proactive and passionate wellbeing and learning for students and staff. Our students, staff and community demonstrate outstanding positive behaviours and consistently work to demonstrate and build their #StrathtullohHEART.

We pride ourselves on being an inclusive and progressive school community. Our staff are our most valuable resource and we provide support & recognition accordingly. Our Coaching, Wellbeing and Principal Class teams are visible and working together with staff to support the best outcomes for students.

**Why work at Strathtulloh?**
- 5hrs non face to face time provided to full time teachers per week. This is usually provided by a full day of release each week;
- Shared and supported planning of lessons each week;
- No scheduled Yard Duty on the days you have face to face teaching;
- 3 meetings times a month allocated to meeting and connecting with parents/families (inside regular work hours);
- Reports with one paragraph of written comments, Parent Teacher Interviews held inside the 38hr work week;
- No requirements for communication outside 38hr work week;
- Collaborative Environment - you¿re not alone, you have the support, shared planning and camaraderie of a team;
- Flexible teaching spaces, NOT open plan, purpose built for our explicit teaching approach;
- Free before & after school program for children of staff;
- A terrific team of staff who engage in a variety of social events and functions;
- Getting here is easy It's a 30 minute drive against traffic from Sunbury, Gisborne, the inner west or north of Melbourne and an hour from the eastern suburbs, Ballarat & Geelong. We¿re also only a short walk from the train station with plenty of seats heading away from the city.
- On site Cafe with good food and coffee
- The Strathtulloh community are encouraged to be Helpful, Excelling, Accepting, Resilient and Trustworthy people as they demonstrate, support and strive for a #StrathtullohHEART

**Selection Criteria**:
**SC1**
- Demonstrated expertise in the curriculum, FISO 2.0 and the VTLM 2.0, when leading planning and implementation for the teaching of reading.

**SC2**
- Demonstrated capacity to lead the implementation of evidence-based practices and modelling of High Impact Teaching Strategies and High Impact Wellbeing Strategies that respond to student learning and wellbeing needs in reading.

**SC3**
- Demonstrated ability to lead others in monitoring and assessing student learning (at class, cohort or whole-school level) and to lead the use of data to improve teaching practice in reading.
- Demonstrated ability to support others to provide feedback on student learning growth and achievement to students and parents in reading.

**SC4**
- Demonstrated outstanding interpersonal and leadership skills.
- Demonstrated ability to build and lead collaborative relationships with students, parents, colleagues and the broader school community to enhance student learning and wellbeing.
- Demonstrated excellent organisational and time management skills including the ability to meet and exceed deadlines and display proactive and positive initiative.

**SC5**
- Demonstrated, visible, consistent behaviours aligned with Strathtulloh Primary School values. Capacity to support colleagues, students and others to live by these values in a positive, proactive and passionate way.
- Demonstrated capacity to work with others to lead professional learning to improve reading practice.

**SC6**
- Demonstrated high-level expertise with evidence based, data-driven practice excellence in explicit teaching of reading.

**Role**:

- Learning Specialists will be highly skilled classroom practitioners who continue to spend the majority of their time in the classroom delivering high-quality teaching and learning and have a range of responsibilities related to their expertise, including teaching demonstration lessons, observing and providing feedback to other teachers and facilitating school-based professional learning. Learning Specialists are expected to have deep knowledge and expertise in high quality teaching