Department of Education Victoria – Hallam VIC

3d ago , from Department of Education & Training Victoria

Hallam Primary School is situated within one of the most culturally diverse communities in the City of Casey. Nearly forty languages other than English are spoken within the school community. Hallam Primary School has started a SWPBS journey and continues to promote its values of safe, responsible, learner, kind as key components of school culture and development.

Hallam Primary School provides an inclusive and supportive learning environment.The school ensures a protected and orderly learning and teaching environment, implements school-based wellbeing support that incorporates fair and equitable student management processes, establishes effective curriculum, assessment and reporting procedures and has high expectations that all students can learn and be successful.

Staff work collaboratively and take collective responsibility for students' learning and wellbeing. This is consistent from Foundation, where many students enter the school developmentally vulnerable and make progressive gains through to Year 6. These gains are achieved through a structured learning environment aligned with the VTLM2.0 and purposeful explicit teaching.

Programs in Science-Technology (Science, Coding, Robotics, VR), Physical Education, Visual Arts, Performance Arts and LOTE (Auslan) and cooking and gardening through the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden program. Students are offered participation in a range of extra-curricular experiences such as camps, incursion and excursions throughout the year.

Selection Criteria

- Ability to implement a range of small group and whole-school mental health prevention and promotion activities aimed at improving student mental health and wellbeing,



including the delivery of capability building and awareness raising activities for staff and/or students on key mental health and wellbeing issues affecting the schools student population.
- Demonstrated ability to input into the development, implementation and evaluation of processes and strategies aimed at enhancing mental health and wellbeing prevention, promotion and early intervention.
- Demonstrated experience in assessing, conceptualising and analysing wellbeing issues, and providing evidence-based direct counselling support to clients with a range of mental health needs.
- Demonstrated experience in coordinating supports for young people with complex needs including referrals to a range of specialist services as appropriate.
- Highly developed communication, networking and interpersonal skills including the ability to liaise effectively with a wide range of people.
- Clear understanding of legislative requirements regarding privacy of health information.

Role

Range 4 is distinguished by broader management responsibility, particularly in the areas of finance, human resource and other support functions. Range 4 is responsible for managing a range of functions under a wide range of conditions, subject to the size and complexity of school operations.

Objectives will, generally, be clearly defined; guidelines will be broad and day-to-day direction minimal.



Management responsibility extends to ensuring appropriate support levels are maintained across the school. Range 4 generally provides key support and timely advice to the leadership team and school council and liaises with the general school community, the Department and other government agencies and service providers.

Specialised qualified roles will carry a high level of independence and accountability where suitable scope is provided to achieve objectives.

An education support class position supports the educational services being provided to students, but must not include duties of teaching as defined in clause 2.6.1 of the Education and Training Reform Act 2006 (Vic) or its successor. Supervision of students cannot be required except where it is an integral part of the employee¿s position or involves supervision of students individually or in small groups, in controlled circumstances, where the responsibility for students remains clearly with a teacher.

Responsibilities

Hallam Primary School has a Speech Therapist and Occupational Therapist who supports our wellbeing and engagement programs for students. The psychologist position will further enhance our Allied Health team. Operating in collaboration with the Assistant Principal for Wellbeing and Inclusion, Allied Health team, Mental Health Leader and Disability Inclusion Leader, our psychologist will work to

- Enhance mental health prevention and promotion activities in the school by contributing to whole-school health and wellbeing plans, building the capability of teaching staff and school leadership to address matters relating to student mental health and wellbeing, and helping to develop and deliv

📌 Psychologist 0.4 (Melbourne)
🏢 Department of Education Victoria
📍 Melbourne