Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan
Job type: Full time / From 17/02/2025
Organisation: Schools (Government)
Salary: Salary not specified
Occupation: Education and Training
Reference: 1459748
Job posted: 18/12/2024
Closes: 26/01/2025
Location ProfileAt Thornbury High School, we are proud of what we do every day to champion innovation, inclusiveness, and academic excellence. Through our extensive academic and extra-curricular programs, we aim to foster and inspire a new generation of respectful and resilient young people ready to face a rapidly changing world.
In 2024, the school's enrolment is approximately 1100 students. The school has four Principal class, 70 equivalent full-time teachers and 35 Educational Support Staff working together to achieve the school's vision, the central tenets of which are:
High academic expectations and standardsA safe and secure learning environmentA wide range of opportunities for students to pursue individual and collective aspirationsA recent highlight was winning 'The Age – Schools that Excel Award' for sustained improvement in VCE results. In 2023 the VCE median study score again reached 31, with 8.1% of students achieving study scores of 40 and above.
Thornbury High's many strengths include our instrumental music program that includes free instrumental music tuition to all year seven and eight students as part of the performing arts curriculum, the recently expanded Sports Academy program and our Italian language immersion program.
We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which our school stands, the Wurundjeri People and pay our respects to their elders past and present.
Selection CriteriaAbility to implement a range of small group and whole-school mental health prevention and promotion activities aimed at improving student mental health and wellbeing.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.RoleThe Mental Health Practitioners (MHP) initiative was announced by the Minister for Education in late 2018 to expand mental health and wellbeing support in government schools.
Operating in collaboration with the relevant Department of Education Regional Mental Health Branch, this role has the following functions:
Enhancing mental health prevention and promotion activities in the school.Providing early intervention services for individual students and groups identified as at-risk.Coordinating supports for students with complex needs both within and external to the school.Who May ApplyRequired Applicants must be qualified as a psychologist, social worker, mental health nurse, occupational therapist or counsellor of a prescribed class.Demonstrated direct counselling experience.A current Working With Children Check.Child Safe StandardsVictorian government schools are child safe environments. Our schools actively promote the safety and wellbeing of all students.
Conditions of EmploymentAll 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.ResponsibilitiesReports To: Principal team and Business Manager
The Student Wellbeing Coordinator [SWC] is an integral part of the THS Wellbeing Team and provides a wide range of support to students and families.
The duties of this role will include the promotion of a safe, supportive, and positive school environment.
Position responsibilities: Providing triaging for students and allocating them to a THS MHP staff member.Coordinating resources and supports with other services for students with complex needs.Organisation and delivery of mental health and wellbeing workshops with targeted groups of students.Conditions apply: Police Check, VIT/WWCC, Child Safety Standards, DET Code of Conduct.
To apply for this role, you will be redirected to the Schools (Government) job application system.
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