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Form of workSchool Learning Officer - Wellbeing
Commencement Date: Monday 22 April 2024
Employment Type: Term time, permanent (15 hours p/w) with varied hours (27 hours p/w) until 24 January 2025
Salary Range: $32.21 to $33.57 Gross per hour
Closing Date for Applications: Friday 12th April 2024
St Thomas' School Mareeba
St Thomas Of Villanova Catholic Parish School catering for students from Prep to Year 6, is situated in the town of Mareeba in the Cairns Hinterland, approximately an hour’s drive west of Cairns. The town of Mareeba (a local indigenous word meaning ‘meeting of the waters’) and the surrounding shire is home to tropical rainforests, savannah woodlands, national parks, rivers, waterfalls, granite mountain tops, gorges, escarpments and limestone caves. Prior to European settlement, it was a meeting place for the local indigenous people of the area, the ‘Kuku Muluridji’. Presently our enrolments include a significant number of students with diverse cultural backgrounds including indigenous students. Catholic Education in the Mareeba district began more than a century ago founded by the Sisters of Mercy who continued a long tradition of working with religious from the Order of Saint Augustine. The influence of our Parish Community was manifested in the early 1950s when our school previously known as Good Counsel, took the name of the patron of our Parish, St Thomas of Villanova. The work of the many religious who enriched the faith life of our community is recognised in the names of our school sports houses: Phelan and O’Connor, named after the two longest serving Augustinian priests and Power and Mills, named after the founding Sister of Mercy and our last serving Sister and Religious Principal.
About the Role
The School Learning Officer Wellbeing is responsible to;
- Assist student well-being, either individually or in groups, where some discretion and judgement are involved in evaluating and assessing (under the supervision of an academic staff member(s)) the well-being needs of students.
- Respond appropriately and effectively to the immediate needs of teaching staff and students to aide in creating and maintaining supportive and safe learning environments.
- Assist in developing and maintaining proactive strategies and programs to support student well-being.
- Within routines, methods and procedures carry out liaison between the school and the student were discretion and judgements are involved.
- Under direct and/or routine supervision, perform tasks of limited complexity, associated with developing, preparing, implementing and supervising well-being programs and relevant materials.
- Support students and staff in relation to their physical, social and emotional needs where some discretion and judgement are involved.
- Collaborate with other specialist support staff actively working to enhance academic and well-being outcomes for diverse learners across a broad range of learning and social capacities.
- Hold a Working with Children Blue Card
- Be fully supportive of the ethos of Catholic Education
- Annual Leave with 17.5% leave loading
- Access to salary packaging options to maximise your salary
- 12.75% employer superannuation contributions
- Access to long service leave after 7 years of continuous service (portability of Long Service Leave may also be applicable)
- 14 Weeks’ paid parental leave
- Access to Employee Assistance Program
For further information about the role, please download the Position Description 240402 School Learning Officer Wellbeing PosD L3.pdf
Intending applicants must be fully committed to creating and maintaining a child safe organisation.
Catholic Education is an equal opportunity employer.
