Permanent, part time (32.5 hours per week, 40 weeks per year)

Indicative gross salary per year will be in the range of $50,069 to $54,218, based on Level 2 Step 1 - 4 plus annual leave, 4 weeks pro-rata.

Role Overview

The Learning/Student Support Assistant works under the guidance and direction of the Learning/Student Support Coordinator. The Assistant may be allocated to a class or various classes to support the classroom teacher in catering for the needs of students with an identified disability or other additional needs.

Duties include

• Work in class with students with special needs with the class teacher if requested.
• Set up teaching aids e.g. locating and gathering materials; modifying resources (under teach-er direction).
• Test, assess and observe students as requested by the Student Support Coordinator and/or teachers.
• Attend Student Support meetings, professional development activities and/or child studies as needed.
• Attend general staff and Faculty meetings
• Appraise and recommend for purchase appropriate learning support teaching materials in consultation with other members of the Student Support team.
• Assist with administrative tasks such as funding applications and data collection as request-ed.
• Support in specialist subject areas (under teacher direction).
• Support in the implementation of teaching strategies listed in the Student Support Plan (SSP).
• Reinforce skills following lessons.
• Assist in the implementation of programs
• Observations and feedback to teacher on students to assist in the monitoring and evaluation of the SSP.
• Assist in positive behaviour support programs in line with SSP goals.
• Reinforce class rules.
• Mobility assistance as required
• Scribing (including formal testing e.g. NAPLAN).
• Physical management e.g. personal care and hygiene of students with special needs if re-quired.
• Support arrivals/departures in bus/taxi of special needs students if required.

Applicant Requirements

• Experience in learning support
• Ability to work with children with special needs
• An interest in and willingness to work with the Steiner Childhood philosophy and child development
• The ability to provide an appropriate role model for students
• The ability to plan and work in an organised manner and to self-reflect on professional practices
• The ability to work in a professional and collegial manner with colleagues
• Good communication and conflict resolution skills
• The ability to work under direction and be flexible, punctual, calm and patient
• The ability to maintain confidentiality.
• Minimum Certificate III in Education Support or other relevant qualification
• First Aid Certificate (desirable)
• ACT Working with Vulnerable People registration
• Eligibility to work in Australia, unrestricted.

What we offer

• The right to disconnect outside of work hours for a better work/life balance
• Salary sacrificing
• Free onsite parking
• Discounted school fees for eligible employees
• Our commitment to maintaining a physically and psychosocially safe environment for all staff, students and visitors to the school.

Salary and conditions of employment are determined by the Independent Schools ACT (Support and Operational Staff) Staff Multi-Enterprise Agreement 2021. We are currently in the implementation phase of a new agreement.

There is a 6-month probationary period.

ABOUT OUR SCHOOL

Orana Steiner School is a vibrant, growing co-educational Early Childhood to Year 12 school of around 550 students. Set within a natural landscape and on a magnificent 16-hectare property in Weston, an inner south suburb of Canberra, Orana seeks to provide a high-quality education for its students, based on the Steiner Education tradition. In its 40-year history, Orana Steiner School has developed an enviable reputation for its standards and achievements, and its warm, caring culture. Orana proudly employs applicants from a diverse range of backgrounds.

In Primary School, we value individual difference. We believe in self-responsibility and in the values needed to become connected and contributing citizens. We seek to support our students to be capable of personal endeavour and community involvement. The education we provide develops creative and imaginative thinking and aims to instill in our students a love of learning, a sense of wonder, an appreciation of beauty and a connection to the world.

The High School teaching program assists students in taking increasing responsibility for their own learning and to develop their own ideals, values and sense of purpose for adult life. The High School encourages students to become independent thinkers; use their own observations, research, and draw conclusions and judgements; form relationships with specialist teachers; address questions and problems in specialist subjects, and to develop a wide range of expertise as well as an active, articulate and well-rounded thinking capacity.

The Senior College curriculum is comprehensive and carefully designed to balance a Steiner approach with the contemporary requirements stipulated by the ACT Board of Senior Secondary Studies. This broad, integrated approach to the Senior College curriculum emphasises the development of well-rounded students through equal exposure to Arts and Sciences, together with a range of electives. Orana’s tradition of extensive pastoral care for its students continues into the Senior College.

Orana Steiner School is committed to the safety and wellbeing of its students in accordance with the National Principles for Child Safe Organisations and child safety legislation. The successful candidates must hold (or be eligible to obtain and maintain) a Working with Vulnerable People (WwVP) registration and undergo a National Police Check.

Please visit our website to find out more: https://oranaschool.com