Department of Education - Victoria

Location Profile  

Nearnung Primary School opened for the first time in January 2023, and we encourage interested staff to come and join us, as we continue to establish our wonderful new school!

Our school is experiencing incredible success in relation to student learning and wellbeing, and we enjoy wonderfully positive community support. Our staff are thriving, knowing they are supported to teach, to lead and to achieve!

Embracing the values of connection, inclusion, endeavour and care, our teaching and learning team deliver programs that cater for each student's unique needs, ensuring learning is personalised and encouraging student agency. Our disability inclusion focus is well developed, and our students are thriving!

School Wide Positive Behaviour Support (SWPBS) features at our school, along with programs that support positive student wellbeing and our commitment to the delivery of high-quality curriculum. Our students demonstrate exemplary behaviour and consistently work to achieve their very best.

Our school facilities are incredible and include: an administration building with a beautiful library, staff offices and amenities; two learning neighbourhood buildings with general purpose classrooms, and flexible and collaborative teaching spaces; a specialist learning neighbourhood building for subjects such as food technology and science; a community hub with a competition-grade gymnasium, canteen, music and drama space; two outdoor hardcourts and a sports field. The school offers Outside School Hours Care for families of students who attend the school.

The successful applicant will value working and collaborating in teams, to deliver the very best academic and wellbeing outcomes for our students, staff and wider school community.

OUR VISION is the provision of a vibrant, inclusive school with purposeful community partnerships, providing personalised and relevant opportunities for all students to reach their potential and have a voice and choice in their learning and pathway.

OUR MISSION is to actively engage with the school community and share responsibility for empowering one another in the delivery of deliberate practices that maximise student engagement, achievement and wellbeing. Information and communication technology is embedded within our program delivery, providing a voice, choice and/or solution to potential barriers faced by students.

We promote the principles of inclusive education and support personalised learning by embedding the Universal Design for Learning principles and practices in school curriculum planning. We ensure teaching is targeted, consistent and specific, delivered within a tiered response model. Our students are thriving!

WE VALUE connection, inclusion, endeavour and care. We make a deliberate choice to focus on positive learning and healthy relationships, respecting ourselves, our school and each other, and understand that our attitudes and actions have an impact on the people around us. We celebrate and champion everyone to be their whole and most authentic selves. We focus on our goals, give effort and celebrate success. We model and demonstrate kindness and take every opportunity to help others.

All members of the school community are encouraged to be actively involved in the learning partnership to enable children to reach their potential at school and our school teams will contribute significantly to the quality of learning and the smooth operation of the school.

Program Benefits 

This position attracts an incentive payment of $5,650 (pre-tax) for the successful candidate who meets the eligibility criteria set out under conditions of employment.

Conditions of Employment 

All staff employed by the Department and schools have access to a broad range of employment conditions and working arrangements. 

The appointment of successful applicants will be made subject to satisfactory pre-employment conditions check. 

A probationary period may apply during the first year of employment and induction and support programs provided. 

Eligibility for incentive payments: 

• The successful candidate is committing to a minimum of 1 year employment at this school. 
• The successful candidate will not be a Graduate Teacher Incentive recipient from a previous vacancy. 
• The successful candidate must not be employed as a teacher by the Department at the time the advertised position is to commence. 

EEO AND OHS Commitment 

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