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About this job
Position Information
Tullamore Central School is located in the Parkes Shire, 125km south–west of Dubbo, catering for students from Kindergarten through to Year 12. Our current enrolment is 55 students with 24% identifying as Aboriginal, including 33 Primary and 22 Secondary students.
Tullamore Central School promotes a strong culture of high-expectations and inclusivity, in ensuring that all students can achieve their personal best.
The school has a supportive and involved school community including P&C and AECG, and strongly encourages community involvement and engagement.
As a school community, we pride ourselves on working in close partnership with our parents and carers to ensure that every student is genuinely known, valued and cared for.
The Head Teacher Secondary Studies is a member of the Executive Team and has leadership roles within the Secondary faculty and across the school. They are responsible for the ongoing implementation, monitoring and evaluation of school priorities aligned to the school’s Strategic Improvement Plan.
The Head Teacher Secondary Studies has shared responsibility for the ongoing professional development of teaching staff within the Secondary faculty and works collaboratively with all staff K-12 across our Central School setting.
This role entails working with parents/carers and local service providers to enhance student engagement in teaching and learning, and the development of career pathways.
General Selection Criteria
Specific Selection Criteria
Applicants must satisfy the teacher training and academic qualification requirements for this position. In addition to the general selection criteria,
Demonstrated experience and expertise in leading the development and implementation of innovative and differentiated teaching and learning programs and quality assessment.
Evidence of highly developed organisational and management skills, with a demonstrated ability to connect with all key stakeholders to effectively support students in their learning.
Outstanding communication skills with the demonstrated capacity to contribute to building and strengthening a collaborative learning culture across the school.
Demonstrated experience in leading professional learning in conjunction with the executive team and school community, in the pursuit of whole school priorities and targets.
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 successful applicant may be eligible to receive a one-off recruitment payment of $20,000. (Conditions apply).
A Relocation support payment of $5,000 up to $8,000 will be available for eligible applicants.
Tullamore Central School is a 6-point school and as such attracts additional incentives. Please refer to:
https://education.nsw.gov.au/teach-nsw/find-teaching-jobs/choose-rural/benefits-and-incentives/how-the-benefits-work
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.