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About this job
Position Information
Lurnea High School is a comprehensive, co-educational secondary school located in the city of Liverpool. The school serves a diverse community of learners with 84% of students having a language background other than English (LBOTE) and of that number 40% require EAL/D (English an additional language or dialect) support. There are 715 students including 32 students of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background.
The school has a Support Unit of 101 placements for students with mild, moderate intellectual delays and autism. The school also has an Intensive English Centre (IEC) catering for the English language learning needs of newly arrived migrant and refugee students (numbering between 85- 120 annually).
The provision of rich, accessible, flexible and creative learning experiences lies at the heart of the ways students and staff thrive and learn at Lurnea High School through a growth mindset of increasing educational attainment for every student every year. In the HSC 2025, Lurnea High School was named as one of the most improved schools across the state. Consistent growth in HSC attainment, alongside improvement in a wide range of student performance measures including NAPLAN, places the school among the strongest improvers statewide.
It is an inclusive school united by a shared aim for young people to be active, engaged learners, creative, critical and innovative thinkers and responders; who are respectful, responsible, fair, tolerant and understanding citizens.
Lurnea High School works in partnership with parents, families and the wider community to extend learning beyond the school gates to ensure that students are connected to resources and opportunities that promote resilience and inspire lifelong learning.
General Selection Criteria
Specific Selection Criteria
- Highly developed leadership skills to lead and manage a multi-disciplinary faculty with a range of experience and drive the improvement of student outcomes, specifically at the Stage 6 level.
- An awareness and understanding of working in a complex setting inclusive of students from diverse cultural backgrounds and experiences, and the capacity to establish effective partnerships with colleagues, parents and the broader community to achieve improved learning outcomes for all students.
- Proved capacity to lead whole school initiatives aligned with the School Excellence Plan and contribute effectively to executive decision making.
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, neurodiverse people and people with disability. If we can make some adjustments to our recruitment/interview process to better help you shine, please contact the hiring manager using the contact details provided above. For more information, visit NSW Department of Education Diversity and Inclusion
Merit selection application guidelines for classroom teachers, executives and principals provide clear advice for applicants and selection panels. The guidelines are available here.
To meet the page limits outlined in the guidelines, all application attachments must be submitted in PDF format. Please note that late applications will not be accepted.