Administration Assistant (Range 3) Mental Health School

Location Profile

Avenues Education is a mental health designated purpose Department of Education school in the South East Victoria Region (SEVR) that provides targeted education programs for individual and groups of students experiencing social, emotional, and or mental health difficulties in accessing education. The school receives referrals directly from Alfred Health and Eastern Health Infant Child and Youth Mental Health Services (ICYMHS). Depending on the program and individual health needs, students undertake lessons either at their enrolled base school or at Avenues Education ICYMHS locations in Moorabbin, Ringwood or Box Hill Hospital. The school works in partnership with Alfred and Eastern Health, and students cease to be part of Avenues Education programs when they are discharged from ICYMHS or when the educational reason for their referral has been addressed. 

Avenues Education provides tiered assistance directly to SEVR schools, including mental health prevention and promotion activities, school capability building sessions, professional learning, consultation and liaison. The school uses the Victorian Curriculum capabilities curriculums and the department¿s Positive Classroom Management Strategies (PCMS) as the basis with which to build the capability of schools in recognising and responding to the mental health needs of students and reducing the barriers to student engagement in learning.

Avenues Education Teachers and Leaders must demonstrate exemplary teaching practice and highly developed skills to improve student learning in the context of social, emotional a…