Outdoor Education Teacher Blackwood Oss

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan

Job type: Part time / From 07/10/2024 - 31/12/2024

Organisation: Schools (Government)

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Education and Training

Reference: 1432135

**Selection Criteria**:
SC1 Demonstrated knowledge of curriculum for students with a disability including Abilities Based Learning and Education Support (ABLES) and The Victorian Curriculum, levels A
- D.

SC2 Demonstrate an understanding of how students learn and effective teaching strategies and the capacity to work with colleagues to continually improve teaching and learning.

SC3 Capacity to monitor and assess student learning in the outdoors to inform teaching for improved student learning for students with disabilities.

SC4 Demonstrated high level written and verbal communication skills and high level interpersonal skills including a capacity to develop constructive relationships with students, visiting staff and members of the local community.

SC5 Demonstrated commitment and capacity to actively contribute to a broad range of Blackwood Outdoor Specialist School activities and a capacity to reflect on, evaluate and improve professional knowledge and practice.

**Role**:
Teachers at this level at Blackwood SSOEC are responsible for teaching visiting groups and may also assist and participate in policy development, project teams and the organisation of co-curricular activities. Other tasks may include property maintenance, administration, promotion and event organisation.

**Responsibilities**:
To provide a safe, supportive environment for the development of students with special needs through challenging outdoor education lessons and programs.

b) To ensure accommodation facilities are maintained to a suitable standard for visiting students with special needs and staff in accordance with Occupational, Health & Safety, Local Moorabool Council and Australian Camping Association Accreditation regulations.

c) To develop and maintain a caring and supportive environment in which students with special needs can participate in a series of challenging activities that promote self-confidence and self-esteem.

d) To undertake program development to further develop and advance curriculum.

e) To participate in appropriate professional development activities which will contribute to the provision and development of programs.

Additional responsibilities may include but are not limited to:

- contributing to a range of co-curricular programs
- Attending expeditions / camps
- Evening activities

**Who May Apply**:
Teachers currently registered or eligible for registration with the Victorian Institute of Teaching and qualified to teach and/or have demonstrated experience in the curriculum area(s) specified for 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:
**Other Information**:

- All staff employed by the Department and schools have access to a broad range of employment conditions and working arrangements.

**Conditions of Employment**:

- All staff employed by the Department and schools have access to a broad range of employment conditions and working arrangements.

**VIT LANTITE**:
To be eligible for employment, transfer or promotion in the principal or teacher class a person must have provisional or full registration from the Victorian Institute of Teaching. In addition, from 3 August 2020, to be eligible for employment in the principal class or teacher class, a person who graduated from a Victorian Initial Teacher Education program after 1 July 2016, must demonstrate that they have passed the literacy and numeracy test for initial teacher education (LANTITE) requirements. This condition is satisfied where the LANTITE requirement is part of the Victorian Initial Teacher Education program completed by the person.

**Location Profile**:
Frankston Special Developmental School (SDS) is a unique dual campus School. The main Frankston Campus located in Karingal in the outer southern suburbs of Melbourne, while the residential outdoor Blackwood Campus is in the small township of Blackwood, 80km north-west of Melbourne and 140km from our Fr