Wellbeing Support Officer – Administration Es1-2

Role

Wellbeing Support Officer – – 5 Days Per week

The Wellbeing Hub Support person will work closely with Wellbeing Team (Social workers, Youth Group Worker and School Nurse) and Year Level Coordinators to actively support students and their families to promote successful outcomes for all students. The successful applicant must have excellent communication skills, looking for a challenge to help develop this new role within the college and enjoy working with young people.

 Responsibilities may include:

Support the wellbeing and year level coordination team with administrative services

Manage and implement attendance processes across the college, 7-12. This includes truancy, school refusal, unapproved absences, holiday absence plans and multi day suspension absence plans.

Support behaviour processes pertaining to out of class passes

Maintain consistent and professional communication with families

Triage student wellbeing needs during the school day

Support Wellbeing Team and Coordinators in arranging Student Support Meetings

Other duties as requested by Principal

Who May Apply

Individuals with the aptitude, experience and/or qualifications to fulfill the specific requirements of the position.

EEO AND OHS Commitment

The Department of Education is committed to the principles of equal opportunity, and diversity and inclusion for all. We value diversity and inclusion in all forms – gender, religion, ethnicity, LGBTIQ+, 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 family friendly, supportive, safe and harassment free workplaces is essential to high performance and promotes flexible work, diversity and safety across all schools and Department workplaces. It is our policy to provide reasonable adjustments for persons with a disability (see ).

Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander applicants can contact Brett West, Yamatji man, in the Koorie Outcomes Division to talk about the recruitment process, the Department and supports for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people in the Department. Mobile: 0477 726 801 or email on:

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

DET Values

The Department’s employees commit to upholding DET’s Values: Responsiveness, Integrity, Impartiality, Accountability, Respect, Leadership and Human Rights. DET’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 DET values is available at

Other Information

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

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

Location Profile

Mount Eliza Secondary is a medium sized secondary college with four principal class officers, sixty teachers and twenty education support staff members. It has long been known for its caring and dedicated approach to its students, the calibre of young people who attend, and the support of its parent community. These factors remain as strengths of the college as does our desire for continuous improvement, and a commitment to remain as one of the highest performing government colleges in the Frankston and Mornington Peninsula areas.

We are an authorised school for the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program making us the only government provider of this rigorous program outside of Melbourne.

The major focus for our work in recent years has been to:

Enhance teacher capacity

Rigorously implement a culture of high expectations

Provide authentic opportunities for learning in local and global contexts

Provide a respectful learning environment where student voice is a key element.

The significant shift in the college culture in recent years has been underpinned by a whole of college focus on accountability and consistency. During that period, our belief in genuine improvement and meeting the needs of our highly capable students resulted in numerous developments. These included the embedding of year level based teams and the use of weekly two hour staff professional learning sessions to enable our workforce to develop our skills together and with common purpose, the use of Compass to facilitate parent communication and involvement, and the focus on the work of our high quality leaders to lead each of the year level teams. We also further developed Hands on Learning to support students at risk and to enable the development of a truly personalized and relevant approach to learning. With the developments that also occurred in our VCAL and PACE programs, our connections to the local community have increased enormously, enabling our students to learn in an environment whereby they are truly making a difference to the lives of others.

At Mount Eliza Secondary College we believe that we have an obligation to our students. This informs our work on an ongoing basis and makes us confident that we can provide a learning environment of the highest quality. We also know that as a smaller college, we can offer a degree of personalization not possible in larger settings and we are genuinely excited about our future.

Responsibilities

Provide routine clerical or other administrative support responsibilities.

Maintain, enter and retrieve data from the schools IT systems, such as the school’s records system, including computerised student, staff and school records.

Source basic data or factual information from given sources to support school administrative functions.

Develop and implement strategies to ensure effective administration procedures.

Support and assist first aid when required.