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Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan
Job type: Full time / From 28/01/2025 - 27/01/2030
Organisation: Schools (Government)
Salary: Salary not specified
Occupation: Teacher
Reference: 1454965
At Pakenham Hills Primary School our motto is Life is for Learning. Our mission is to provide each child with the lifelong learning skills, knowledge and social development that will enable them to achieve to their potential and participate successfully in our society.
Our intention is to ensure that we create a learning environment where all students take responsibility for their learning and endeavour to reach their personal best. We seek to create a safe, positive and supportive learning environment and provide a differentiated learning approach enhanced by an extensive curriculum.
The school has 45 full and part-time staff including the Principal, 2 Assistant Principals, 3 Learning Specialists, 21 education support staff and a school psychologist (1.0). A PLC approach to program planning is a feature of the school's curriculum development. The development of literacy and numeracy skills and the acquisition of critical thinking, problem solving, and decision-making strategies are a key part of our curriculum. The school runs a transition to school program during semester 2 each year called Pakky Seals.
The school serves a slowly expanding residential and outlying area in the South-East growth corridor. The school is situated 2 km east of Pakenham. Pakenham Hills Primary School is a medium-sized school with a current enrolment of approximately 440 students.
The school comprises 18 permanent classrooms, Performing Arts, Visual Art, AUSLAN, and Physical Education rooms, a Library, and an Administration area. Two relocatable double classrooms have been integrated with the permanent buildings on a large site. A BER Multi-Purpose complex was opened at the beginning of 2011. The older gymnasium was refurbished and turned into a dedicated Performing Arts Centre in 2019. Students learn AUSLAN as an alternative language.
The school provides a large oval, basketball and netball courts, as well as junior, middle and senior adventure playgrounds. Maintenance of the buildings and development of the grounds is a priority to support our goal in providing a stimulating learning environment and ensuring that the school continues to operate in attractive buildings and surroundings. A shared community facility (Parent Zone) is co-located on the school site. This facility provides a range of allied health services to the local community.
Our school values of respect, teamwork, positive attitude, honesty and integrity and communication underpin the PHPS School Expectations of: Be a Learner; Be Safe and Be Responsible. These expectations are reflected in everything we say and do at Pakenham Hills.
In our school community we work hard to ensure our values and expectations are demonstrated by:
At Pakenham Hills Primary School we foster a belief that each student should be given the opportunity to achieve social, emotional, and academic excellence. We aim to ensure each child acquires the learning strategies, behaviours, and attitudes of lifelong learners, along with the social skills needed to work, play and get along with others.
1. Educational Leadership
(i) Outstanding capacity for visionary and exemplary educational leadership of a school or college
(ii) Highly developed skills in leading and managing change, including the leadership of others in the process of change
2. Financial, Managerial, and Administrative Ability
(i) Outstanding financial, organizational, and resource management skills
3. Planning, Policy, and Program Development and Review
(i) Exemplary values appropriate to the development of student learning with a demonstrated capacity to achieve high-quality student outcomes
(ii) Demonstrated ability to implement Department policies to a high level
(iii) An understanding of, and a commitment to, the use of learning technologies to improve teaching and learning
4. Leadership of Staff and Students
(i) A highly developed capacity to motivate staff, develop their talents, and build an effective team
(ii) A clear capacity to foster a learning environment that takes account of the individual needs of students and helps students to develop their special ability.
5. Interpersonal and Communication Skills
(i) Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills in individual, small group and community contexts
(ii) Exemplary values pertaining to personal qualities of objectivity, sensitivity, and integrity
(iii) An ability to work with parents and the community to develop a strong learning environment
The assistant principal reports directly to the principal.
Assistant principals have a primary responsibility for the management of significant areas or functions within the school to ensure the effective development, provision and evaluation of the school's education program. In exercising the responsibility, assistant principals will have the authority to make all significant decisions relating to the program, budget and staff relating to their area of designated responsibility within the framework of the school's strategic plan, policies and budget. Assistant principals will contribute to the overall management of the school through involvement in policy formulation and decision making.
The management of significant school program or functional areas in schools involve assistant principals in the analysis of the needs of students and the translation of state educational policy and frameworks into appropriate education programs to meet the needs of all students.
Typically assistant principals will be responsible for the effective use of the teaching staff and program budget of a defined area of the school's operation and for the oversight and leadership of the educational programs provided utilising these resources.
Typically, assistant principals perform one or more of the following functions:
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.
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.
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 Workplace adjustment guidelines).
Additional support and advice on the recruitment process is available to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islanders from the Koorie Outcomes Division (KOD) via marrung@education.vic.gov.au
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
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
To be eligible for employment, transfer or promotion in the principal or teacher class a person must have provisional or full registration from the Victorian Institute of Teaching. In addition, from 3 August 2020, to be eligible for employment in the principal class or teacher class, a person who graduated from a Victorian Initial Teacher Education program after 1 July 2016, must 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 Initial Teacher Education program completed by the person.
Full time / From 28/01/2025 - 27/01/2030
Assistant Principal-Range 1
Rachel Mauger | 0410 404 956