Head Teacher Human Society and its Environment - Barrenjoey High School

Permanent full-time job at Barrenjoey High School (New South Wales, Australia) recruited via NSW Department of Education (Sydney NSW, Australia)
Job Reference 0000APF5
Closing date November 6, 2024 (AEST)
Location Coonanga Road, Avalon 2107 NSW, Australia
Type Full-Time
Status Permanent
Contact Brett Blaker
(02) 9918 8811

About this job

Position Information

Barrenjoey High School's vision is to consistently deliver quality education within a safe and nurturing environment where we foster opportunities for students to excel in their individual areas of interest. The school has a current enrolment of 906 students.

Through community collaboration and partnership, Barrenjoey High School aims to develop respectful future citizens, leaders and lifelong learners with self-awareness, pride, confidence and resilience.  We aim to provide an individually tailored school experience that is created from consistent processes and innovative strategies that are enriched with dynamic teaching practices.

Barrenjoey High School supports the well-being of all students while consistently rewarding student effort, setting high expectations and promoting academic rigour.  Barrenjoey High School is a comprehensive centre that caters for intellectual, creative, social-emotional and physical excellence.

Barrenjoey High School continues to promote THE vision of providing a school experience where Respect, Effort and Challenge is highly valued. Students respect the subjects they study, the content, teachers, environment and themselves. Effort is expected, valued, recognised and celebrated and students see the worth in challenging themselves to 'be the best they can be'.

General Selection Criteria
1. Successful teaching experience with capacity to initiate improvement in teaching, learning and classroom practice
2. Knowledge of curriculum, assessment and student welfare with the ability to lead and design quality, inclusive teaching and learning programs
3. Educational leadership skills to build the capacity and manage the performance of individuals and teams
4. Well developed communication and interpersonal skills with the capacity to build relationships and engage students, staff and parents
5. Ability to plan and manage resources effectively and equitably to support teaching and learning
6. Knowledge of and commitment to the Department's Aboriginal education policy
Specific Selection Criteria
Applicants must satisfy the teacher training and academic qualification requirements for this position. In addition to the general selection criteria,
- Evidence of outstanding leadership, communication and interpersonal skills in managing a large team with a diverse range of experiences.
- Capacity to lead HSIE staff to deliver high quality teaching and learning, with an explicit focus on literacy, numeracy and differentiation.
- Proven capacity to use data driven practices to plan, implement and evaluate systems and processes to improve the academic, social and well-being needs of all students.
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with the Senior Executive and Executive team to lead, manage and implement whole school processes that support the attainment of the school’s Strategic Directions.
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

The Eligibility Requirements for Head Teacher Positions in NSW Government Schools are located here.

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.

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