Seeking – Prace College Wellbeing Coordinator

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Prace College is seeking two experienced and dedicated Wellbeing Coordinators to provide wellbeing interventions and student support across our Reservoir and Mernda campuses.  These are full-time, ongoing positions.

You will be part of a dynamic team passionate about helping students to achieve their goals through education. The role requires a dedicated professional to provide impactful and adaptive wellbeing services. This role utilises a variety of interventions designed to foster resilience and overall wellbeing, while also overseeing the coordination of wellbeing resources throughout the campus site.

Responsibilities and duties will be across two campuses:

• Leadership
• Wellbeing support
• Teamwork and collaboration
• Administration, record-keeping and reporting
• Child safety

Prace College is an Independent Specialist School that provides a supportive, flexible and inclusive education to meet the needs of at-risk young people, and supports them to re-engage with and participate in learning, community and work activities. We are a not-for-profit organisation.

Qualifications and experience

• Graduate qualification in Social Work, Youth Work, Counselling, or a related discipline.
• Extensive experience supporting vulnerable young people, with a deep understanding of trauma’s impact on development and educational engagement, and knowledge of factors leading to disengagement and its relationship with wellbeing.
• Extensive experience working with adolescents, helping them reconnect with education or secure employment, while understanding the complexities of adolescent development and skillfully de-escalating situations of personal distress.

To Apply

Applications will be considered, and applicants informed if they have been successful in securing an interview, on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.

Submit via Seek, or direct to Prace: 

• Your resume, and
• Your response to the Key Selection Criteria (these are contained within the Position Description), as a part of your cover letter or as a separate document. For a copy of the Position Description, please contact:

Adriana Pugliese, Reconnect Manager

apugliese@prace.vic.edu.au

ph: 9462 6077

Equity and Diversity
Prace College understands the importance of diversity and inclusion. We recognise that
everyone has the right to an equitable, safe and productive environment and to be treated
with dignity and respect.  We welcome applications from all people regardless of age, gender,
ethnicity, cultural background, disability or sexual orientation. Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander people are encouraged to apply.

Child Safety – Statement of Commitment

Prace intentionally promotes and protects the interests and safety of children, and a child-safe environment for all children and young people in its care.

This will be achieved by:

• having a zero tolerance for child abuse
• working to actively listen to and empower children
• having systems to protect children from abuse, and will take all allegations and concerns very seriously and responding to them consistently in line with the organisation’s policies and procedures
• being committed to promoting cultural safety for Aboriginal children, cultural safety for children from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds, and to providing a safe environment for children with a disability
• engaging only the most suitable people to work with children along with providing high quality supervision and professional development.

All staff employed by Prace are required to have a current Working with Children Check card or VIT registration. See our Child Safety Code of Conduct.

As part of Prace’s recruitment and selection process, applicants will be required to undergo a pre-employment safety screening process. Successful appointments to a position will be subject to, but not limited to, the following checks: National Police Check, Victorian Employee Working with Children Check, current and valid Driver’s Licence. All costs associated with safety screening will be at the applicant’s expense.

For more information, contact:

Adriana Pugliese – Reconnect Manager, or

Libby Barker – Education and Business Operations Manager

ph. 94626077