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.
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 Lead Teacher, you will champion the creation of safe, inclusive and trauma‑informed learning environments where all students feel valued, capable and connected. You will design and deliver engaging, individualised learning programs that support academic growth, wellbeing and the development of personal strengths.
You will apply the Berry Street Education Model to enhance engagement, regulate learning readiness and build resilience across the campus. Through modelling best practice, coaching colleagues and contributing to curriculum planning, assessment and reporting, you will help ensure consistent, high‑quality teaching and learning for every student.
In this role, you will collaborate closely with families and multidisciplinary teams to support each young person’s educational and wellbeing journey. You will contribute to the broader leadership and management of the campus and uphold state and national teaching requirements, including the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APSTs).
Your work will reflect deep professional integrity, a commitment to equity and an unwavering focus on creating the conditions in which all students can thrive.
You are:
Berry Street Yooralla 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 by Wednesday 29th July, 2026.
We believe in diversity, inclusion and equality and are committed to ensuring that our workplaces are a reflection of the Victorian community. We recognise the benefits that diversity and inclusion brings, and in turn encourage talented people from all backgrounds, abilities and identities to apply to our vacancies.
We encourage applications from people with lived experience of disability. You'll receive adjustments and support throughout the whole process — from the application stage to starting in the workplace. If you require the position description in a different format or any accommodation or assistance during the application and interview stages please contact the person listed on the ad or alternatively email recruitment@berrystreet.org.au or call 9421 9392.
Berry Street Yooralla 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.
Please Note; the successful applicant will be subject to comprehensive reference and background checking prior to employment, including a NDIS Screening Check, Working with Children Check and National and International Police check (if required) and NDIS training.
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.
