Ongoing Graduate Teacher - Special Education - Port Phillip Specialist School

Location Profile  

Port Phillip Specialist School is a dual-mode specialist school catering to a diverse range of students aged 2.8 to 18 years with a diagnosed intellectual disability.  Port Phillip Specialist School believes that all students will develop personal and social capabilities, communication and independence to the best of their abilities.  Port Phillip Specialist School is committed to the values of professional collaboration, trust, compassion and respect whilst embracing and celebrating diversity. The school environment is creative, accepting, flexible and positive.

Port Phillip Specialist School utilises the Visual and Performing Arts to engage students to work towards achieving the Victorian Curriculum outcomes in English, Mathematics, Personal and Social Capabilities, Health and Physical Education and Science. Students are further supported through a Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum in English and Mathematics and a School-Wide Positive Behaviour Framework.

Port Phillip Specialist School's Integrated Services Model ensures the focus is to optimise student well-being outcomes and promote happy, healthy students. Our school is a professional learning community where collaboration and collective responsibility for improving student learning and well-being outcomes provide every student with a targeted teaching and learning program.

Port Phillip is committed to building and fostering positive and mutually beneficial relationships within the school and the wider community to support students within an inclusive environment.

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 [email protected]