Overview

Work Type: Ongoing - Full-time

Salary: Salary not specified

Grade: Learning Specialist - Range 3

Occupation: Learning specialist

Location: Melbourne - Northern suburbs

Reference: 1550502

Location Profile

Craigieburn Secondary College

Belonging | Understanding | Respect | Growth

We welcome passionate and imaginative educators into our learning community. We are committed to supporting and valuing staff in their professional practice and growth through:

- belonging to an inclusive and multicultural community

- knowing that together we make a difference

- intellectual and practical engagement in our profession

- teaching for conceptual understanding.

Our community

Located on the lands of the Wurundjeri people, our community is wonderfully diverse, with more than fifty language backgrounds represented among our families and staff. This diversity is one of our greatest strengths, and we draw on it to build a sense of Belonging for every student and family.

Our dedicated team of multicultural and integration staff helps build strong connections between the college and our families, so that families feel welcome and their voices are heard. Through events and performances throughout the year, students and families share their cultures, languages and traditions with the wider school community. When students see their own backgrounds reflected and valued at school, they are better able to feel that they belong and to succeed in their learning.

Our organisational model

Each cohort is led by an Assistant Principal and a Leading Teacher (PEG), who move with their students from Year 7 through to Year 12. This continuity embeds relational pedagogy and reflects our values of Belonging and Understanding.

Our meeting structure supports this model and is built around four foci: Professional Culture, Knowing our Students, Curriculum, and Pedagogy. Staff work collaboratively in meeting time, moving through each focus in a connected sequence using the Inquiry Cycle framework.

Our frameworks

We have achieved Gold status in embedding School-Wide Positive Behaviour Support (SWPBS). We are now developing an inclusive school framework closely aligned with the Framework for Improving Student Outcomes (FISO) and the Victorian Teaching and Learning Model (VTLM 2.0). This work is guided by our goal of building integrated multi-tiered systems of support, and we welcome educators who are inspired by it.

At Craigieburn Secondary College, we teach for understanding. We focus our professional growth on ensuring that all students have access to, and success in, their academic and social learning.

Supporting our students

Many of our students face challenges at home. We support them through breakfast and homework clubs and a dedicated allied health team that includes counsellors, youth workers, mental health practitioners and a speech pathologist. Targeted fluency and tutoring programs support learning, and our learning partners make sure that Individual Learning Plans are developed and implemented effectively.

Joining our team

New staff are supported through a structured induction program that includes dedicated time release for mentoring and coaching. Our values of Belonging and Respect place strong relationships between staff, students and families at the centre of our practice. You¿ll build these relationships quickly through form teacher roles, community events and extra-curricular opportunities.

Growing your practice

Staff have many opportunities to extend their practice through leadership responsibilities and positions that promote individual and professional growth. These opportunities reflect our commitment to students¿ personal and educational growth through:

- student voice and agency

- applied learning

- restorative practices

- community leadership

- inclusive and differentiated teaching and learning

- reflective and evaluative practices

- enrichment and engagement programs.

Looking ahead to 2027

In 2027, we will continue to interweave SWPBS and VTLM 2.0 through an explicit teaching planning template. We will also keep strengthening our multi-tiered system of Wellbeing, Behaviour and Academic supports.

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.

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 role is aimed at building excellence in teaching and learning within the Teaching Service.

Responsibilities

In recognition of the importance of exemplary practice for improved student learning outcomes, the key roles of the Learning Specialists may include but are not limited to:

- Demonstrating high-level expertise in teaching and learning practice
- Modelling exemplary classroom practice including through teaching demonstration lessons
- Working with the school leadership team to develop a shared view of highly effective teacher practice
- Leading and modelling the implementation of whole-school improvement strategies related to curriculum planning and delivery
- Playing a key role in the provision of professional learning, including through developing processes and protocols for observation and feedback of teacher practice and peer collaboration
- Modelling effective learning practice and supporting teachers to seek, analyse and act on feedback and on their practice
- Providing evidence-based feedback to teaching staff to inform their effectiveness and development
- Providing expert advice about the context, processes and strategies that will shape individual and school professional learning
- Supervising and training one or more student teachers and mentoring and/or coaching teachers
- Modelling exemplary use of student data to inform teaching approaches
- Developing and promoting school-wide professional learning structures, processes and protocols through Skilled Learning Communities
- Modelling exemplary professional learning practice included through seeking feedback from other teachers and leaders on their own classroom practice as part of critical reflection and inquiry to improve practice

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.

Diversity and Inclusion

The department is committed to diversity and inclusion and developing a workforce that is representative of the community we service. We value diversity and inclusion in all forms - culture, gender, religion, ethnicity, LGBTIQA+, disability and neurodiversity. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates are strongly encouraged to apply for roles within the Department. The Department recognises that the provision of safe, respectful and inclusive workplaces is essential to high performance and promotes flexible work and diversity across all schools and Department workplaces. It is our policy to provide reasonable adjustments for staff with disability (see Workplace adjustment guidelines).

Additional support and advice on the recruitment process is available to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander candidates from the Koorie Outcomes Division (KOD) via [email protected]

Applicants seeking part-time employment are encouraged to apply for any teaching service position and, if they are the successful candidate, request a reduced time fraction. Such requests will be negotiated on a case-by-case basis and will be subject to the operational requirements of the school.

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:

https://www2.education.vic.gov.au/pal/child-safe-standards/policy

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:

https://www2.education.vic.gov.au/pal/values-department-vps-school-employees/overview

Other Information

Purpose statement for Learning Specialist - Behaviour Analyst

The Behaviour Analyst Learning Specialist provides strategic instructional leadership to strengthen positive behaviour, student engagement, wellbeing and inclusion outcomes across the College. As an expert practitioner in behaviour support, the role works collaboratively with College leaders, teachers, learning partners, students and families to lead the implementation of evidence-informed behaviour support practices aligned with FISO 2.0, School-Wide Positive Behaviour Support (SWPBS), Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) and the College Strategic Plan.

The Behaviour Analyst Learning Specialist maintains a strong focus on improving outcomes for students by ensuring behavioural, social and emotional needs are identified early and addressed through proactive, preventative and responsive interventions. Through the analysis of behaviour, engagement, attendance and wellbeing data, the role supports the development of positive learning environments that maximise student participation, belonging, self-regulation and achievement. The Learning Specialist leads the implementation and evaluation of universal, targeted and intensive behaviour supports, ensuring interventions are evidence-informed and responsive to student needs.

The Behaviour Analyst Learning Specialist builds the capability of teachers and support staff through coaching, mentoring, demonstration lessons, classroom observation and the provision of evidence-based feedback. The role leads professional learning in positive behaviour support, trauma-informed practice, behaviour assessment, classroom management and restorative approaches, supporting staff to implement consistent and effective strategies across the College. Through modelling exemplary practice and fostering a culture of collective responsibility, the Behaviour Analyst Learning Specialist contributes to safe, inclusive and engaging learning environments where all students can thrive academically, socially and emotionally.

Qualifications:

Education and Certification: A master's degree in Applied Behaviour Analysis, Education, Certification as a Board Certified Behaviour Analyst (BCBA) is preferred.

Conditions of Employment

- All staff employed by the Department and schools have access to a broad range of employment conditions and working arrangements.
- Appointment of successful applicants will be made subject to a satisfactory pre-employment conditions check.
- A probationary period may apply during the first year of employment and induction and support programs provided.
- Detailed information on all terms and conditions of employment is available on the Department's Human Resources website at https://www2.education.vic.gov.au/pal

Qualification Requirements

To be eligible for employment, transfer or promotion in the principal or teacher class:

- The person must have provisional or full registration approved by the Victorian Institute of Teaching; and
- if the person completed an Australian postgraduate level initial teaching program or course of study on or after 1 January 2024, they must demonstrate that they have satisfactorily completed a postgraduate level accredited initial teacher education program that has been accredited by an Australian State or Territory Teacher Regulatory Authority as satisfying the requirements of the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership 'Accreditation of initial teacher education programs in Australia: Standards and Procedures'; and
- a person who graduated from a Victorian Initial Teacher Education (ITE) program after 1 July 2016 must also 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 ITE program completed by the person).

Details of qualification requirements as updated from time to time can be found at Recruitment in Schools.

Applications close Sunday 8 November 2026 at 11.59pm

Posted

26 October 2026

📌 Learning Specialist Range 3 - Behaviour Specialist (West Melbourne)
🏢 Government schools
📍 West Melbourne