Principal Salary and Conditions- NTPA met with the new OCPE Commissioner to discuss how we can retain and attract principals to the job and to address the diminishing gap between the AP and Principal level. The Commissioner agreed to review the Principal Classifications; however, we are aware that the Teacher EBA negotiations will need to be finalised first.

Attached are a few documents in regard to Ongoing (PLO) and Executive Contract Principal (ECP) levels. Please remember when a principal job is advertised it often does not compare salaries of the PLO and ECP level. The PLO is a salary and the ECP is a renumeration package (which includes employer paid superannuation and a fleet vehicle). Please reach out for a conversation if you want more information in regard to ‘Choice of Employment’.

Choice_of_Employment_fact_sheet.pdf

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Suspension Policy- Revised information 

• The NTPA have been consulted on the updating of the Suspension from School guidelines.
• As part of the regular meetings with NTPA and their involvement in the review of the Suspension Guidelines, Department of Education representatives provided an update to the NTPA executive on 23 May.
• The Guidelines are in their final stage of approval, once approved the department has an implementation and communication plan to support all school leaders to engage with the new policy.
• At this stage we anticipate that the Suspension from School Guidelines will be a topic on the agenda for the Principal briefing on 13 June.

Be You Implementation: 20 schools are part of the Phase 1 implementation and are supported by both SWIPS and Be You. Each site has an allocated SWIPS professional and Be You consultant (early years sites are also supported by an additional consultant from Early Childhood Australia)

Student Wellbeing Officers are being trailed in 14 schools and will provide general support to students and support schools to strengthen their whole school wellbeing approaches. This initiative helps to address the workforce shortage of school counsellors. Student Wellbeing Officers are:

• Employed and line managed by schools
• Funded, trained and professionally supervised by SWIPS
• Full time school based.

SWIPS would like your voice on other creative solutions to expand and diversify their wellbeing and inclusion services:

• What programs and services do we currently have that we should be amplifying?
• Are there programs or services we currently don’t have that we should be thinking about at the system, regional or school level?

Please provide any feedback to ntpa.president@education.nt.gov.au

Education, Leadership, Culture and Care Team

The Recruitment and Attraction Team have developed a Recruitment and Attraction Strategy inclusive of national and global campaigns, a Relief Teacher Pool, end to end support for recruitment, a migration agent to support VISA applications and partnerships with a range of Universities in Australia.

As part of School Leader Wellbeing Action Plan, opt in wellbeing conversations will be offered to all principals in Semester 2, and a public campaign “Let’s Keep Schools Safe for Everyone’ will be released.

The Leaders Summit is being planned for early Term 4, 2024; currently procurement processes are being finalised.

NTPA continue to advocate for an improved Communication Strategy to ensure all principals are aware of the wider programs, initiatives and actions being undertaken by our system to support schools.