Itinerant staff are departmental employees who travel from their base school on a regular basis to deliver programs or provide services in other school locations.
Employees are classed as itinerant if they meet the following criteria:
- travel from their base school on a regular basis to other schools during the normal school day
- work outside their base school for more than the equivalent of two days per week
- perform their itinerant duties as part of a program supported by a regional cluster of principals.
Officers who may meet the definition of itinerant include guidance officers, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, speech-language pathologists and nurses working within and across regions as well as some, but not all, teachers delivering specialist services or programs including physical education, music, learning support, languages other than English, English as a Second Language or advisory visiting services.
Itinerant staff have a reporting relationship to a professional practice supervisor and/or program manager who oversees their professional practice and effectiveness of service responsibilities. They also have a reporting relationship to the principal of their base location who provides line management supervision in areas such as leave approval, authorisation of travel claims and related expenditure.
On some occasions, professional practice supervision and line management may be provided by the same position.