AddressThe Student Wellbeing Officer role is to support the emotional wellbeing of students by providing pastoral care services and strategies that support the emotional wellbeing of the broader school community.
The position complements the care offered by other school welfare staff and aims to provide support for the personal and social wellbeing of students and the school community.
Student Wellbeing Officers work in collaboration with school communities to support the wellbeing of school students through:
- providing pastoral care.
- organising volunteer activities within the school community.
- running programs such as breakfast clubs and lunchtime activities.
- coordinating excursions, school incursions and parent/carer workshops.
Key aspects of the role could include:
- Work with the school's Wellbeing Team and Learning and Support Team to plan for and deliver services that develop student resilience and promote wellbeing.
- Attend regular meetings to strengthen a whole school approach to wellbeing.
- Collaborate with teachers, administrators, and support staff to strengthen general understanding of wellbeing issues.
- Work toward forming positive relationships with the students, their teachers and families to support wellbeing outcomes.
- Provide expertise and guidance to ensure current programs align with best practices and effectively meet the wellbeing needs of students and develop new programs as required.
- Assist in establishing systems and practices relevant to students’ needs including resilience skills, targeted social skills, respect, emotional regulation, conflict resolution and a sense of belonging.
- Work with students in groups or one on one.
- Provide students, their families and staff with support and/or appropriate referrals in difficult situations such as during times of grief or when students are facing personal or emotional challenges.
- Develop relationships with and referring students/parents/carers to specialist services within the school as appropriate or externally, under the direction of the school Learning Support Team and principal.
- Organise one-on-one or group sessions with students, parents, staff and other members of the school community as requested and required by the school community.
- Attend Parents and Citizens' meetings to provide details of the program and the services that are available.
- Provide mentoring/coaching services.
- Provide support and/or appropriate referral in times of grief and other critical events.
- Facilitate community partnership programs between the school and the wider community, under the direction of the school principal.
- Have knowledge of and actively engage to build partnerships with local community resources and services and provide referrals to external support networks, such as counsellors, psychologists, or community organisations, ensuring students and families can access the appropriate assistance when needed. Where professional services exist within the school, they will liaise accordingly and work to refer where required.
- Support and work toward enhancing school record keeping systems and practices including personalised support plans.
- Always meet confidentiality requirements.
