English Leading Teacher

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time / From 27/01/2025 - 26/01/2028

Organisation: Schools (Government)

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Education and Training

Reference: 1438694

**Location Profile**:
Elsternwick Primary School (EPS) prioritises a safe, supportive and inclusive environment fostering academic excellence, community engagement, and student wellbeing. Anchored by our vision of high performance, EPS, situated in Brighton, Melbourne, has served a diverse community since 1888. With 428 students across 19 classes, our values of Respect, Responsibility, Personal Excellence, and Curiosity underpin our school culture. Our 2022-2025 Strategic Plan includes a focus on: every student achieving continuous learning growth; empowering students to be active agents in their learning; and strengthening the engagement and wellbeing of all students.

Our workforce composition included a Principal and Assistant Principal, a dedicated staff of 26 teachers, 8 Educational Support Staff, and 4 Literacy/Numeracy Tutors. We focus on the needs of our International Students, maintaining a Student Family Occupation Education (SFOE) index of 0.0734 in 2023. Our Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD) data identified 32% of students requiring varying levels of adjustment, with small percentages funded through the Program for Students with Disabilities (PSD) and the new Disability Inclusion Profile (DIP).

**Selection Criteria**:
**SC1** Demonstrated expert knowledge of the relevant curriculum. Demonstrated ability to lead and manage the implementation of school priorities, and the teaching of literacy and numeracy skills across the curriculum.

**SC2** Demonstrated ability to lead the planning and implementation of high impact teaching strategies that respond to student learning needs. Demonstrated ability to support teachers to evaluate the impact of learning and teaching programs on student learning growth.

**SC3** Demonstrated exemplary ability to monitor and assess student learning at a class, cohort or whole-school level and use this data to lead improvement initiatives. Demonstrated ability to support others in using data to inform teaching practice and to provide feedback on student learning growth and achievement to students and parents.

**SC4** Demonstrated exemplary interpersonal and leadership skills. Demonstrated ability to lead collaborative relationships with students, colleagues, parents and the broader school community focused on student learning, agency, wellbeing and engagement.

**SC5** Demonstrated ability to model behaviours and attitudes consistent with Department values and support colleagues to adopt these behaviours and attitudes. Demonstrated ability to reflect upon their own, others and whole-school practice and contribute to the provision of whole-school professional learning.

**Role**:
Leading teachers will be highly skilled classroom practitioners and undertake leadership and management roles commensurate with their salary range. The role of leading teachers is to improve the skill, knowledge and performance of the teaching workforce in a school or group of schools and to improve the curriculum program of a school.

Typically, leading teachers are responsible for coordinating a number of staff to achieve improvements in teaching and learning which may involve the coordination and professional support of colleagues through modelling, collaborating and coaching and using processes that develop knowledge, practice and professional engagement in others.

Leading teachers are expected to lead and manage a significant area or function within the school with a high degree of independence to ensure the effective development, provision and evaluation of the school's education program.

Leading teachers will be expected to make a significant contribution to policy development relating to teaching and learning in the school. A leading teacher has a direct impact and influence on the achievement of the school goals.

Leading teachers are usually responsible for the implementation of one or more priorities contained in the school strategic plan.

**Responsibilities**:
In recognition of the importance of leadership and management combined with exemplary teaching practice for improved student learning outcomes, the key roles of the leading teachers may include but are not limited to:

- Leading and managing the implementation of whole-school improvement initiatives related to the school strategic plan and school priorities
- Leading and managing the implementation of whole-school improvement strategies related to curriculum planning and delivery;
- Leading and managing the provision of professional development and developing individual and team development plans for teaching staff within the priorities of the school;
- Leading and managing staff performance and development (review of staff);
- Teaching demonstration less