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Register your interest to be a Behaviour Support Coach with our department for short term vacancies at various locations.
Your registration of interest will be valid until 31 January 2024.
About the role
Student Support Services works with schools and preschools to provide support to help them meet the needs of all children. The role requires the incumbent to positively participate in the ongoing development and review of a service model that supports the provision of integrated and targeted services to sites to assist them in meeting the needs of children and young people with additional needs.
The trend of increasing learner complexity is well documented in the literature. Increasing numbers of children and young people are being identified with complex learning difficulties and disabilities often with co-existing conditions such as autism, attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder. Increasing numbers of children are in schools who have difficulties arising from premature birth, have survived infancy due to advances in medical interventions, have rare neurological disorders or foetal alcohol syndrome. Behavioural issues are becoming increasingly more challenging and complex with a range of co-morbidity factors (including mental health) that require skills and expertise to identify underlying causes to better address the needs of the children and young people.
The Behaviour Support Coach is a member of a multidisciplinary team and works with children and young people with significant behavioural difficulties and their families. This position works with preschool children to ensure early intervention and with children and young people through their school years. The Behaviour Support Coach is placed in a team but may be required to provide services elsewhere. The Behaviour Support Coach works in partnership with preschool and school staff, and families to develop and implement evidence based behavioural interventions that include proactive and situational management strategies that can be adapted for learning and home contexts.
This position is required to have a sound understanding of the underlying causes of behaviour, apply comprehensive assessment processes to determine the aetiology and function of behaviours, learning methodologies and educational contexts.
See the Behaviour Support Coach job description (PDF 311 KB) for more information.
Qualifications
Essential – current full teacher registration.
Desirable – tertiary qualification in psychology, social work, speech pathology, occupational therapy or other behavioural science.
How to apply
See registration of interest form (DOCX 3 MB) for how to apply.
Applications and enquiries to
Meredith Reynolds or Katie Sciberras, Professional Support Educators
Phone: 8416 7333
Email: Education.BehaviourSupportCoachStudentSupportServices@sa.gov.au