Pittwater House is seeking a temporary, part-time Languages Teacher for Term 4, 2026. This is a 0.6 FTE maternity leave position, working Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. The preferred candidate will be able to teach French and Mandarin from Years 4 to 10. Applicants should be innovative educators who demonstrate strong lesson planning, effective student engagement, and sound knowledge of the NESA curriculum. Experience teaching in NSW is preferred.
All staff contribute to the School’s pastoral care and co-curricular programs. The successful applicant will be expected to participate in pastoral care, camps and co-curricular activities as required. Please note that there is no Saturday sport commitment.
Why work with us?
- Onsite baristas offering discounted price coffee and other drinks
- Onsite café
- Use of School pool
- Fitness Passport
- Access to free and confidential counselling via EAP for staff and family members
- Access to EAP app offering wellbeing benefits such as guided meditations and wellbeing check-ins
- Support and mentoring available for Teacher accreditation process
- Extensive Professional Development program
- Variety of co-curricular choices
- Social events
Pittwater House is a child-safe environment. Our School actively promotes the safety and well-being of all students, and all staff are committed to protecting students from abuse or harm, in accordance with their legal and ethical obligations, including child safe standards. The successful applicant for this position will be required to provide the school with a current Working With Children Check.
Reference checking will be a part of the process for the successful applicant. For teachers coming from another school, it is expected that at least one referee will be a member of the school senior executive team.
Pittwater House is committed to gender equality in pay and employment.
A full job description can be found at: https://pittwaterhouse.com.au/our-community/work-with-us/
Applications should be emailed to:
James Walmsley, Deputy Principal via: recruitment@tphs.nsw.edu.au
Applications close: 21 August 2026
Pittwater House reserves the right to appoint prior to this date.
Attachments:
Pittwater House Schools
COLLAROY, NSW
Website: http://www.pittwaterhouse.com.au/
Principal: Dr Steven Middleton
Affiliation: Nondenominational Independent
Teaching Level: Combined
Gender: Coed
985 Students
101 Teaching Staff
49 Non-Teaching Staff
Single School
Pittwater House is an innovative independent P–12 school on Sydney’s Northern Beaches. Our unique Twin Schooling model combines single-gender classes from Grades 2–10 with a co-educational senior school in Years 11–12.The School is an independent, non-selective, non-denominational school offering a wide range of subject and extra-curricular choices. Appointed Teachers are expected to be supportive of the ethos of the School and prepared to become actively involved in the life of the School.
