Learning Specialist

Location: Melbourne | Parkville

Job type: Full time / From 01/01/2025

Organisation: Schools (Government)

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Education and Training

Reference: 1436228

**Location Profile**:
Yalingbu Yirramboi - The Royal Children's Hospital School was officially registered as a Victorian Government school in June 2024.

Yalingbu Yirramboi - The Royal Children's Hospital School keeps students connected to their education by bridging the gap between hospital, home, and their base education setting.

Educators design and deliver targeted and individualised learning to improve valued student outcomes (academic, developmental, physical, social, and emotional wellbeing). We set our learners up for success by ensuring they experience continuous engagement in learning. We are dedicated to empowering students and caregivers, advocating for their needs, and fostering a supportive environment for them to become champions of their own education post-hospital discharge.

Learners at the Yalingbu Yirramboi - The Royal Children's Hospital School are a transient student cohort, who receive education interventions on a short or long-term basis dependant on eligibility and educational risk.

Teachers meet new patients to discuss their learning needs and determine the appropriate level of educational support. Eligible students will be offered individual (bedside) learning, or group (classroom) learning experiences, or a combination of both.

Each student receives an Individual Education Plan (IEP) prepared in collaboration with the student, families/carers, multidisciplinary treatment teams and the base educational setting. The IEP is reviewed regularly and updated in line with the student's educational progress.

Kindergarten

Our hospital kindergarten program is led by qualified early childhood educators who, through engaging play-based learning, help prepare children for school.

Primary Education

The school offers an evidence-based program that is built on high-impact teaching and wellbeing strategies and underpinned by the Victorian Curriculum, with a focus on literacy and numeracy.

Secondary Education, VCE and Senior Secondary Pathways

Specialist teachers assist secondary and senior secondary students to remain connected to their studies during a hospital stay, with a focus on educational tasks assigned by their base school.

School Transitions

A team of skilled education professionals facilitates smooth transitions for children and young people as they re-enter or enrol in appropriate educational settings, while serving as advocates for all stakeholders involved.

**Selection Criteria**:

- SC1_ _Demonstrated expert knowledge of the relevant curriculum._
- Demonstrated ability to model exemplary teaching practice, including the teaching of literacy and numeracy skills across the curriculum, and implement school priorities.
- SC2_ _Demonstrated expertise in the implementation and modelling 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 model the monitoring and assessment of student learning._
- 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 communication skills._
- Demonstrated ability to engage in collaborative relationships with students, colleagues, parents and the broader school community to support student learning, agency, wellbeing and engagement.
- SC5_ _Demonstrated ability to model behaviours and attitudes consistent with Department values._
- Demonstrated ability to support others to reflect on their practice and facilitate school-based professional learning.

SC6 _Ability to work in a complex environment._
- Capacity to demonstrate resilience, composure, and compassion in a medical environment and its associated challenges.

**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 and learning in delivering improved achievement, engagement and wellbeing for students. The role of the Learning Specialist will be to model excellence in teaching and learning through demonstration lessons and, mentoring and coaching teachers in improving the skill, knowledge and effectiveness of the teaching workforce.

The Learning Specialist will be working with children aged between 3 - 19 years