Teacher Special Education - Murray High School

Permanent

full-time

job at Murray High School (Lavington, New South Wales, Australia)

recruited via NSW Department of Education (Sydney NSW, Australia)

Job Reference 0000B3OI

Closing date December 3, 2025

(AEST)

Location Kaitlers Rd, Lavington 2641 NSW, Australia

Type

Full-Time

Status

Permanent

Contact Natarsha Onley

0260254711

About this job

Position Information

Murray High School is located in Lavington, on the NSW/Victorian border, within the culturally rich Wiradjuri nation. The school draws from a diverse community, with 10% of the student population being Aboriginal and 19% of students from English as an Additional Language/Dialect backgrounds. Our welfare and student conduct practices are built on the Positive Behaviour for Learning framework and a working understanding of Choice Theory & Reality Therapy.

The school currently adopts practices in Blended Learning Vocabulary as the basis for literacy skill development. Murray High School enjoys strong and collaborative connections with the local community, other schools in our network, Charles Sturt and Latrobe Universities, and local wellbeing services. The school is well known for its staff collegiality across all sectors of teaching, non-teaching and support personnel.

The position of Teacher Special Education at Murray High School offers applicants the opportunity to join an innovative and highly professional team of dedicated staff.

Specific Selection Criteria

1. Approval to teach Special Education and/or experience in teaching Special Education including teaching students with mild intellectual disorder, moderate intellectual disorder, and/or emotional disturbance.
2. Ability to develop and deliver effective and engaging teaching programs and learning and support plans for students with disabilities.
3. Demonstrated ability to implement strategies that meet their communication, sensory, social and behavioural needs.
4. High level of interpersonal skills and the capacity to work collaboratively as part of a team.

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

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.