Organisation / Entity: Teaching Service
Job category: Schools | Teachers
Job location: Sydney Region
Job reference number: 0000AK7P
Total remuneration package: Remuneration package valued at up to $145,985.00. Base salary ranges from $85,000.00 to $129,948.00, plus leave loading and employer's contribution to superannuation. Base salary rates above the minimum are available depending on experience. Contact: Helen Morgani 02 96328286
Closing date: 15/05/2024 - 04:00 PM
Position Information
Old Guildford Public School (OGPS) is located in South Western Sydney and proudly built on Darug Land, home to the Cabrogal Clan. The current student enrolment K-6 is 429 and we have two Preschool groups of 20 students over a five-day fortnight. Our embedded culture of high expectations and inclusivity ensure that students, staff and the community work together respectfully. As a multicultural school, 96% of our students come from non-English speaking backgrounds. We have students from 28 language backgrounds with the main being Arabic. In addition, we are proud of the small but significant number of Aboriginal students enrolled at our school.
Our learning environment reflects strong student wellbeing principles. To aid in the development of the whole child, compassionate and skilled staff offer a wide range of extracurricular activities. These include, but are not limited to, the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden program, coding, chess, debating, recorder, choir, and a wide range of sports.
Through our situational analysis we have identified five areas that will assist our school to work towards achieving our system negotiated targets: Data to inform practice, explicit teaching in literacy and numeracy, effective feedback, collaboration and improving attendance.
Selection Criteria
- Approval to teach students with learning and support needs (primary) and/or experience teaching students with learning and support needs (primary) in regular classes. Capacity to provide specialist assistance to students in regular classes with additional learning and support needs and their teachers.
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with the classroom teacher to support assessment for learning of their students with additional educational needs and identify specific learning needs and targeted intervention.
- Well established understanding of school wellbeing programs, with a strong emphasis on trauma-informed practices and use of evidence-based strategies to support student engagement, participation and wellbeing.
- Demonstrated strong interpersonal and communication skills to engage proactively and professionally with students, parents and staff with the capacity to contribute enthusiastically to a positive inclusive school culture.
Conditions
An unconditional full approval to teach is a requirement. If you do not hold a full approval to teach with the NSW Department of Education, you are required to commence the application process at the same time as you apply for this teaching opportunity.
Special Notes
This is a permanent part-time position for 4 days per week 0.8 FTE (Full-time equivalent)
Learning and support Teacher :
Applicants are to include details of their WWCC clearance number as part of this application.
About the NSW Department of Education
The Department of Education is the largest provider of public education in Australia with responsibility for delivering high-quality public education to two-thirds of the NSW student population. We welcome applications from all ages and genders, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse groups, the LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, refugees and people with disability. If we can make some adjustments to our recruitment/interview process to better enable you to shine, please contact the Diversity and Inclusion Team (dandi@det.nsw.edu.au) or visit NSW Department of Education Diversity and Inclusion
New merit selection application guidelines for classroom teachers, executives and principals have been introduced to provide greater clarity to applicants and selection panels. The guidelines are located here. To ensure that your application complies with the guideline page limits, your attachments must be in PDF format.