Education Support Worker, Berry Street School (Ballarat Campus)
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Job Summary
Help young people Thrive Achieve and Belong.
At Berry Street School youll 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 wont just teach the curriculum.
Youll rebuild trust.
Youll create belonging.
Youll open doors to futures that once felt out of reach.
- Full-time Permanent role
- Ballarat Campus on Wadawurrung Country
- $85 - $89K plus Super Salary Packaging (depending on experience)
About Us
Berry Street is one of Australias largest child and family service organisations supporting over 35000 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:
- Years 710 adapted Victorian Curriculum
- Years 1112 VCE VM and VPC
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 persons needs.
Education Support Worker
As an Education Support Worker you will help create safe calm and inclusive classrooms where students feel supported and ready to learn. Working alongside teachers you will provide practical learning support assist with routines and build strong positive relationships that promote engagement and belonging.
Using the Berry Street Education Model you will help students regulate participate and grow in confidence. You will support individual and smallgroup learning contribute to Individual Education Plans and Focus Plans and communicate observations that help guide teaching and wellbeing approaches.
You will work collaboratively with teachers wellbeing staff and families contribute to a consistent traumainformed school culture and uphold childsafe and culturally safe practice at all times.
About You
We are looking for a relationshipfocused calm and compassionate individual who has:
- Skills in traumainformed and strengthsbased practice.
- Committed to inclusion equity and cultural safety.
Being flexible solutionsfocused and steady under pressure will be advantageous in this role. We welcome a collaborative communicative and eager to learn approach in our team.
What Youll Receive
- Full Berry Street Education Model training
- Coaching reflective supervision and professional growth
- Salary packaging (up to $15900 meals/accommodation)
- 10 weeks paid parental leave
- Employee Assistance Program and well-being supports
- A team that has your back and a culture that genuinely cares
Our Commitment
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.
Apply Now!
Submit your resume and a brief cover letter by Sunday 1st March 2026.
Contact Shaun OLoughlin Assistant Principal onfor further information on the role.
If you require any adjustments or support during the recruitment process please contact Bonnie Pietsch Talent Acquisition Partner on
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 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.
Key Skills
- Nursing Home Experience
- Developmental Disabilities Experience
- Direct Support
- Computer Operation
- Caregiving
- Case Management
- Special Needs
- Training & Development
- Child Protective Services
- Experience with Children
- Word Processing
- Addiction Counseling
About Company
We believe that children, young people and families should be safe, thriving and hopeful. Berry Street provides programs to more than 35,000 children,…
