• High Challenge Education
• Melbourne
• Non-Government School

This a specialist, independent, inclusive, senior-secondary school and learning centre, delivering Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL) curriculum to young refugee and asylum seeker women, who have had disrupted schooling or are struggling to cope with mainstream school.

We need you to have a critical role in supporting students to remove barriers to enable engagement/re-engagement in their education. Central to this will be providing supports that help resolve practical personal challenges and when challenges are complex, refer them to appropriately skilled agencies.

We would like to see experience in developing and delivering social support and wellbeing programming for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) students both individually and as part of a community. This combined with a history of networks and partnerships with external agencies and stakeholders to achieve social-emotional and wellbeing supports for young people and experience in organising and coordinating wellbeing and therapeutic learning activities. This will need excellent documentation, written and verbal communication skills and a capacity to develop constructive relationships with students, parents/guardians/carers, staff and external agencies. The majority of our students are adolescents and young adults who have experienced trauma, are marginalised, disadvantaged and/or from refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds.

You will need relevant tertiary qualifications in areas of social support or social work or youth work or community development or similar with 2+ years relevant experience, including working with CALD students or communities with complex needs. Experience in a flexible school setting will be highly regarded.

We will offer competitive remuneration commensurate with qualifications and experience; access to the tax-effective salary packaging; training and development opportunities; supervision and an employee assistance program. There is flexibility for the right candidate for this to be a 4-5 day per week role

If you have a commitment to diversity and social justice principles and are self-motivated individual who has initiative and is flexible and creative with maturity and a care for student safety, wellbeing and life outcomes we would welcome your enquiry.