Leading Teacher - Senior School

Job Description

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Lead the Future. Shape the Senior School.

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At Peninsula College, we’re not your average school ¿ and this isn’t your average leadership role. We’re looking for an experienced, strategic educator to lead our Senior School: driving whole-of-cohort improvement, building staff capability, and steering the delivery of our senior school programs ¿ including the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, the Award Scheme Development and Accreditation Network (ASDAN) and the Victorian Pathways Certificate (VPC) ¿ alongside work experience and transition planning that sets our students up for real, meaningful futures.

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This is a rare opportunity to shape senior school practice from the ground up, working alongside a forward-thinking leadership team that’s reimagining what specialist education can be.

¿¿ Why This Role, Why Now? Location Profile \n

Lead the Future. Shape the Senior School.

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At Peninsula College, we’re not your average school ¿ and this isn’t your average leadership role. We’re looking for an experienced, strategic educator to lead our Senior School: driving whole-of-cohort improvement, building staff capability, and steering the delivery of our senior school programs ¿ including the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, the Award Scheme Development and Accreditation Network (ASDAN) and the Victorian Pathways Certificate (VPC) ¿ alongside work experience and transition planning that sets our students up for real, meaningful futures.

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This is a rare opportunity to shape senior school practice from the ground up, working alongside a forward-thinking leadership team that’s reimagining what specialist education can be.

¿¿ Why This Role, Why Now? \n

¿¿ Build Something from the Ground Up
\n Join a newly formed leadership team at a pivotal moment for Peninsula College’s Senior School. You won’t be maintaining someone else’s programme ¿ you’ll be leading the design and continuous improvement of our senior school offering, from Duke of Edinburgh and ASDAN through to VPC delivery, senior pathways framework and post-school transition model.

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¿¿ A Role with Real Scope
\n This is a sub-school leadership position with genuine influence ¿ over staff practice, over curriculum, over the culture and outcomes of the Senior School as a whole. You’ll work directly with the Principal class and across teams to lift teaching quality and embed pathways thinking from Year 7 through to graduation.

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¿¿ A Genuine Step Up
\n This is a tenured leadership position, in line with DET guidelines, with a clear line of sight to further leadership opportunities as Peninsula College’s Senior School continues to grow.

Selection Criteria \n

SC1 Demonstrated expert knowledge of the relevant curriculum. Demonstrated ability to lead and manage the implementation of school priorities, and the teaching of literacy and numeracy skills across the curriculum.

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SC2 Demonstrated ability to lead the planning and implementation of high impact teaching strategies that respond to student learning needs. Demonstrated ability to support teachers to evaluate the impact of learning and teaching programs on student learning growth.

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SC3 Demonstrated exemplary ability to monitor and assess student learning at a class, cohort or whole-school level and use this data to lead improvement initiatives. Demonstrated ability to support others in using data to inform teaching practice and to provide feedback on student learning growth and achievement to students and parents.

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SC4 Demonstrated exemplary interpersonal and leadership skills. Demonstrated ability to lead collaborative relationships with students, colleagues, parents and the broader school community focused on student learning, agency, wellbeing and engagement.

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SC5 Demonstrated ability to model behaviours and attitudes consistent with Department values and support colleagues to adopt these behaviours and attitudes. Demonstrated ability to reflect upon their own, others and whole‑school practice and contribute to the provision of whole‑school professional learning.

Role \n

Leading teachers will be highly skilled classroom practitioners and undertake leadership and management roles commensurate with their salary range. The role of leading teachers is to improve the skill, knowledge and performance of the teaching workforce in a school or group of schools and to improve the curriculum program of a school.

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Typically, leading teachers are responsible for coordinating a number of staff to achieve improvements in teaching and learning which may involve the coordination and professional support of colleagues through modelling, collaborating and coaching and using processes that develop knowledge, practice and professional engagement in others.

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Leading teachers are expected to lead and manage a significant area or function within the school with a high degree of independence to ensure the effective development, provision and evaluation of the school’s education program.

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Leading teachers will be expected to make a significant contribution to policy development relating to teaching and learning in the school. A leading teacher has a direct impact and influence on the achievement of the school goals.

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Leading teachers are usually responsible for the implementation of one or more priorities contained in the school strategic plan.

Responsibilities \n

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• Leading and managing the implementation of whole-school improvement initiatives related to the school strategic plan and school priorities
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• Leading and managing the implementation of whole-school improvement strategies related to curriculum planning and delivery;
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• Leading and managing the provision of professional development and developing individual and team development plans for teaching staff within the priorities of the school;
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• Leading and managing staff performance and development (review of staff);
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• Teaching demonstration lessons;
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• Leading and managing the development of the school’s assessment and reporting policies and practices;
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• Leading and managing the implementation of the school operations and policies related to student welfare and discipline;
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• Leading the development of curriculum in a major learning area and participating in curriculum development in other areas;
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• Responsibility for general discipline matters beyond the management of classroom teachers;
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• Contributing to the overall leadership and management of the school;
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• Contributing to the development of proposals for school council consideration;
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• Developing and managing the school code of conduct.
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Who May Apply \n

Teachers currently registered or eligible for registration with the Victorian Institute of Teaching and qualified to teach and/or have demonstrated experience in the curriculum area(s) specified for the position.

Diversity and Inclusion \n

The department is committed to diversity and inclusion and developing a workforce that is representative of the community we service. We value diversity and inclusion in all forms - culture, gender, religion, ethnicity, LGBTIQA+, disability and neurodiversity. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates are strongly encouraged to apply for roles within the Department.

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The Department recognises that the provision of safe, respectful and inclusive workplaces is essential to high performance and promotes flexible work and diversity across all schools and Department workplaces. It is our policy to provide reasonable adjustments for staff with disability (see Workplace adjustment guidelines ).

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Additional support and advice on the recruitment process is available to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander candidates from the Koorie Outcomes Division (KOD) via

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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.

Child Safe Standards \n

Victorian government schools are child safe environments. Our schools actively promote the safety and wellbeing of all students, and all school staff are committed to protecting students from abuse or harm in the school environment, in accordance with their legal obligations including child safe standards. All schools have a Child Safety Code of Conduct consistent with the department’s exemplar available at:

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pal/child-safe-standards/policy

DE Values \n

The department’s employees commit to upholding the department’s Values: Responsiveness, Integrity, Impartiality, Accountability, Respect, Leadership and Human Rights. The department’s Values complement each school’s own values and underpin the behaviours the community expects of Victorian public sector employees, including those who work in Victorian Government Schools. Information on the department values is available at:

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pal/values-department-vps-school-employees/overview

Other Information \n

This position will be a 3 year Tenured position.

Conditions of Employment \n

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• All staff employed by the Department and schools have access to a broad range of employment conditions and working arrangements.
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• Appointment of successful applicants will be made subject to a satisfactory pre-employment conditions check.
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• A probationary period may apply during the first year of employment and induction and support programs provided.
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• Detailed information on all terms and conditions of employment is available on the Department's Human Resources website at
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Qualification Requirements \n

To be eligible for employment, transfer or promotion in the principal or teacher class:

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• The person must have provisional or full registration approved by the Victorian Institute of Teaching; and
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• if the person completed an Australian postgraduate level initial teaching program or course of study on or after 1 January 2024, they must demonstrate that they have satisfactorily completed a postgraduate level accredited initial teacher education program that has been accredited by an Australian State or Territory Teacher Regulatory Authority as satisfying the requirements of the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership 'Accreditation of initial teacher education programs in Australia: Standards and Procedures'; and
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• a person who graduated from a Victorian Initial Teacher Education (ITE) program after 1 July 2016 must also demonstrate that they have passed the literacy and numeracy test for initial teacher education (LANTITE) requirements (this condition is satisfied where the LANTITE requirement is part of the Victorian ITE program completed by the person).
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Details of qualification requirements as updated from time to time can be found at Recruitment in Schools .

Applications close Sunday 27 September 2026 at 11.59pm \n

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