2026 - Leading Teacher Range 3 - Pathways Leader

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

**Salary**: Salary not specified

**Grade**:Leading Teacher - Range 3

**Occupation**:Leading teacher

**Location**:Melbourne - Southern suburbs

**Reference**:1483894

**Location Profile**:

- Carrum Downs Secondary College has a growing enrolment of 950 students and in excess of 100 staff. CDSC fosters a supportive learning environment where every young person is supported to achieve their very best and to embody the values of Respect, Effort and Integrity.

Our new STEAM building was recently added to further enhance our exceptional facilities, which also includes an on-site student run café, auditorium, new Senior Centre and modern twin court gymnasium and weights room.

Our cutting-edge teaching programs, positive student relationships and wide-ranging learning experiences makes being a staff member at Carrum Downs Secondary College an appealing place to be. We are focused on reducing administrative burden on our staff and supporting all teachers to improve their classroom practice. We achieve this through providing all staff with access to high quality professional learning and opportunities to take on additional responsibilities and to grow.

At Carrum Downs Secondary College we are passionate that every student achieves their very best. We aim to enhance the intellectual, physical, social and emotional development of all students and to support their learning growth. We strive to create and maintain a positive, caring and safe learning environment in which all students are provided the opportunity to achieve success.

**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**: Title: Pathways Leader
- Classification: Leading Teacher
- Time Allowance: 10 periods
- Respect | Integrity | Effort

**Position Purpose**
- To lead and manage the pathways and transition to maximise the educational outcomes of every student.

**Strategic Expectations**
- Be an active and supportive member of the college leadership team; which examines college data and creates & implements the Strategic Plan & Annual Implementation Plan
- Lead staff and students to improve engagement and learning outcomes and support the community to exemplify the college values and our school vision of ¿Empowering learners to be successful¿
- Promote high expectat