At Berry Street School, you’ll work with young people who have experienced trauma, disruption and disadvantage, and help them rediscover safety, connection and a belief in their own potential.
You won’t just teach the curriculum.
You’ll rebuild trust.
You’ll create belonging.
You’ll open doors to futures that once felt out of reach.
(Morwell is a growing township in the Latrobe Valley area of Gippsland (approximately 152km South East of Melbourne)
(Morwell is a growing township in the Latrobe Valley area of Gippsland (approximately 152km South East of Melbourne)
About Us
Berry Street is one of Australia’s largest child and family service organisations, supporting over 35,000 children, young people and families across Victoria each year.
Berry Street School is a specialist independent secondary school that supports students at risk of disengaging from education.
We offer:
Our classrooms are small, flexible and deeply relational. Our work is grounded in the Berry Street Education Model (BSEM), trauma-informed practice and strong partnerships with families and support services, ensuring learning is safe, relational and responsive to each young person’s needs.
As a Classroom Teacher at Berry Street School, you will deliver engaging, individualised learning programs within a safe, inclusive and trauma-informed environment. You will support students’ academic progress, wellbeing and readiness to learn, using strengths-based practice and evidence-informed teaching strategies.
You will apply the Berry Street Education Model (BSEM) in your daily practice to promote engagement, regulation and resilience. Working collaboratively with families and multidisciplinary teams, you will develop and review Individual Education Plans (IEPs) and Ready to Learn Plans, monitor progress and provide timely feedback.
Your work will reflect strong professional integrity, a commitment to equity and inclusion, and a belief in every student’s capacity to thrive.
You are a registered teacher who:
Berry Street is a child-safe, inclusive organisation. We actively welcome Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, people with disability, and people who identify as LGBTQIA+.
Submit your resume and a brief cover letter ASAP as we are reviewing applications as we receive them.
Please Note; the successful applicant will be subject to comprehensive reference and background checking prior to employment, including a Working with Children Check and National Police Check and Worker Care Exclusion Scheme if applicable.
Berry Street is committed to being a child safe, child friendly and child empowering organisation. In everything we do we seek to protect children. We are committed to the cultural safety of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children; children from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds; children with a disability; children who identify as LGBTIQA+. We aim to ensure every individual is treated with dignity and respect regardless of their cultural background, ability, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, spirituality or religion.
The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) has been providing outstanding care for Victoria's children and their families for over 147 years.
We are the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria and our care extends to children from Tasmania, southern New South Wales and other states around Australia and overseas.
With a passionate, highly skilled and committed staff campus wide of over 5,000, we provide a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people.
We are the designated state-wide major trauma centre for paediatrics in Victoria and a Nationally Funded Centre for cardiac and liver transplantation.
When it comes to training and research we partner with the very best. Our campus partners, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) and The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, along with the RCH Foundation, are on site with the hospital in Parkville. Together, we are committed to improving the health outcomes for children today and in the future.
In 2016–17, more than 85,654 children attended our Emergency Department, 322,291 specialist clinic appointments were held which was almost 70,000 more than the previous year, more than 17,000 surgeries were performed and more than 48,552 children were admitted to our wards.
