Our school employs a Pastoral Wellbeing Worker.

The Pastoral Wellbeing Worker has three main roles:

A Pastoral Role

The Pastoral Wellbeing Worker will:

• Participate in a wide range of school community activities, and support staff, to contribute to creating a caring and inclusive learning environment within the school.
• On request, provide initial support or information to students, staff and other school community members.
• Ongoing personal assistance with individual students, subject to duty of care, consent, confidentiality and disclosure requirements and the code of conduct.
• Offer support or information with regard to critical situations, grief, family breakdown.
• Be available to provide ongoing support to individuals and/or families.
• Provide additional opportunities for families to feel supported.

A Referral Role

The Pastoral Wellbeing Worker will:

• Provide factual and impartial information about, network with, and be a link to, the support and services provided through community groups, local council and government agencies.
• Consult and liaise with staff about student safety, wellbeing or learning while maintaining appropriate confidentiality, and referring students to other staff as required.
• Be required to report any suspected abuse or neglect.

A Resource Role

The Pastoral Wellbeing Worker will:

• Provide a reference point for addressing social issues
• Provide access to resources from the broader community which are relevant to school programs.
• Be available to give input into health and social education courses (e.g. in the areas of grief, self-esteem, values or relationships).
• Be available to give assistance with camps and excursions, and, where appropriate, initiate activities such as voluntary clubs or groups in the school.
• Support groups such as the Student Representative Council and the Peer Support Program

This service offered by the Pastoral Wellbeing Worker is accessed by school community members on a voluntary basis.

The Pastoral Wellbeing Worker is managed by a school leader and complements, enhances and collaborates with the school well-being team, counsellors, other school support staff, etc.

 A Grievance Procedure for any formal complaint is available from the School Principal.