Management - Schools (Education & Training)
Full time
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Assistant Principal of Wellbeing – North Melbourne
Experienced wellbeing leader
Build partnerships with community, health and wellbeing organisations
Develop trauma informed practices and policy unique to women from refugee backgrounds
Passion for changing lives through education
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The Assistant Principal of Wellbeing is responsible for designing and maintaining a wellbeing program that supports our young migrant women with their education to empower them to build a positive future.
THE POSITION
This position provides leadership, direction and support across our Wellbeing Team, to ensure we are skilfully engaging our young migrant women with their education to empower them to build a positive future. The capability to build and strengthen a positive school culture consistent with the RNS Vision, Values and Strategic Plan is essential.
The Assistant Principal will also have responsibility for governance, compliance, policy and practice development and delivery in all areas connected with student wellbeing. The incumbent will be required to support school leadership and staff across the school to develop and embed policies and processes to ensure effective student wellbeing across the school.
Your Mindset:
• You believe every young person deserves a thriving future.
• You respect and value the perspectives of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) young people and are interested to work with those with complex needs to help them achieve their potential.
• You are comfortable working in a flexible, evolving, changing work environment, staying focused on outcomes and adapting your approach as needed.
• You are collaborative, valuing and respecting relationships within and across our entire team and with our external partners.
• You are a wellbeing expert; informed by data, research and best practices.
• You take initiative, solve problems and have a high attention to detail.
Core Responsibilities:
Manage Overall Wellbeing Program
Manage Compliance and Child/Student Safety
Build and Manage RNS Wellbeing Model
Create, Maintain and Oversee The RNS Community Hub
Community Engagement
Manage Key Leaders and Wellbeing Staff
Contribute to Leadership Team and School Vision
Key Selection Criteria:
1. An outstanding ability to implement a school wide vision for wellbeing practices.
2. Create coherency across multi-disciplinary teams and establish systems like a community health hub that operate effectively.
3. Understand the wellbeing needs of young people, specifically young women from a refugee, CALD background. Develop Wellbeing systems and processes that respond to these needs.
4. Well-developed and demonstrated knowledge of mental health interventions, risk assessment skills and counselling skills to meet the wellbeing needs of the school community.
5. Leadership skills to manage people well and build the capacity and performance of individuals, teams and leaders.
6. Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to relate effectively with a diverse range of professional staff.
7. Understanding of child safety standards, reporting obligations, information sharing processes and a demonstrated ability to create systems and processes around these obligations.
Qualifications, experience and credentials
• Master's level qualification in relevant education/wellbeing field.
• Minimum 4 years leadership experience, preferably in working with young adult students from diverse backgrounds in a school setting.
• Necessary registration to profession based on above qualification.
Employment Conditions
• Competitive salary commensurate with qualifications and experience; access to the tax effective salary packaging; training and development opportunities, and an employee assistance program.
• Appointment of the successful applicant will be subject to:
o Reference checks
o A satisfactory Pre-Employment Disclosure Declaration
o Evidence that the applicant has completed training in Child Safety prior to commencement (a DET link to on-line training for non-government schools will be provided).
o National Police Check – willingness to apply for.
A 6-month probationary period will apply, and induction and professional support programs will be provided.
• The position reports to the Principal.
Applications including a cover letter, resume and response to the Key Selection Criteria to Charles Hertzog: ******
Feel free to email to organise a conversation time if you would like more information.
Your application will include the following questions:
Which of the following statements best describes your right to work in Australia?
How many years of people management experience do you have?
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