Student Wellbeing Support Officer

The Wellbeing Team at McClelland College provides a professional service to students and their families to enhance their personal, social and educational development. Students are encouraged to have agency in improving their wellbeing by utilising early intervention supports and services. A range of referral pathways to external providers, some of whom provide onsite appointments, is available for students with more complex needs. Increasingly the Wellbeing Team aims to work in a preventative model by providing secondary consultation and professional learning for staff, strengthening social & emotional and health-related learning opportunities in the curriculum, and building whole-school capacity to foster resilience in students.

The dedicated `Wellbeing Hub¿ is a space from which students can access a range of resources to support their physical, social and emotional wellbeing including:

· Wellbeing Coordinators (Junior and Senior School): counselling, learning and wellbeing related supports and advocacy.

· Mental Health Practitioner (MHP): short-term counselling and other early intervention and mental health promotion initiatives.

· Secondary School Nurse Program: available for 1:1 health advice and engaged in school-wide health promotion initiatives to reduce risk to young people and promote better health.

· Doctors in Secondary Schools (DiSS): free, on-site access to a G.P. and Mental Health Nurse for advice and medical care.

· Flexible Learning at McClelland (FL@M): is a flexible learning environment (up to 4 classes per week) for students who are identified as at-risk of disengaging with the mainstream curriculum.

· ACAP & Monash counselling placement students: provide short-term, solutions-focused counselling.

· Outreach Program: supporting highly disengaged young people with wellbeing and referral support while establishing pathways back to learning.

· Other outreaching external services: Counselling (Better Place), Enhancing Mental Health Support in Schools (Headspace), and a bulk-billed Psychologist service.

The Student Wellbeing Support Officer is front-facing role at the centre of the Wellbeing Hub:

· Facilitates the daily operation of the Wellbeing Hub including overseeing interactions with students, parents, carers and staff who approach Wellbeing seeking support and consultation.

· Facilitates a triage process to establish the urgency of need of students approaching Wellbeing and prioritising those with acute need to timely access appropriate Wellbeing staff.

· Receives referrals from year level leaders, students and parents and coordinates a waitlist of referrals for the weekly allocation meeting.

· Maintains Wellbeing records including online referrals and compiling data used for service planning.

· Performs other administrative duties to support the day-to-day schedule of Wellbeing Team members, including appointment documentation.

· Oversees the resources available in the Wellbeing Hub and nurtures a culture that is inclusive, calm and supportive of students requiring Wellbeing support.

More information on the roles and responsibilities for an Education Class position in Range 1 Level 2 can be found here: https://www2.education.vic.gov.au/pal/roles-and-responsibilities-teaching-service/policy-and-guidelines/education-support-class