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About this job
Position Information
Black Springs Public School is located in the Central Tablelands area of New South Wales, 63 kilometres from the city of Bathurst and 23 kilometres from the nearest township of Oberon. The school is committed to providing educational excellence for all students who are drawn from diverse backgrounds within the small locality of Black Springs and surrounding rural and remote areas.
The school comprises one multi-age class of 6 students in 2025. Teachers are committed to utilising high-impact, differentiated teaching strategies and ongoing formative and summative assessments to ensure each child has their individual learning goals identified and met. Black Springs Public School is recognised for its positive learning environment where staff collaborate and consistently set high expectations for students' learning. The school is a member of the Bathurst Small Schools Learning Community and the Bathurst network of schools. These professional learning alliances support staff and students through collaborations in staff professional learning and extracurricular student activities, including sporting, leadership and educational excursion opportunities. Black Springs Public School has an holistic approach to educating students, with focus placed on literacy and numeracy as well as the creative and performing arts.
The school values social and emotional learning and the positive effect this has on student wellbeing. Students are supported by wrap-around strategies, including the Positive Living Skills program and Positive Behaviour for Learning.
Specific Selection Criteria
Approval to teach Infants and Primary with demonstrated excellence in classroom teaching practice, evidenced based pedagogy and implementation of differentiated teaching and learning programs for a staged classroom.
Proven ability to use effective classroom management and wellbeing practices to create a classroom environment that is engaging and fosters a culture of high expectations and a sense of belonging.
Highly developed communication, interpersonal and organisational skills with proven ability to build positive and productive working relationships with students, staff, parents and the wider community.
Demonstrated ability or willingness to work collaboratively in a small school environment and lead initiatives in order to promote a positive 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
Applicants seeking permanent part time employment are encouraged to apply for this position. The recommended applicant will be offered an appointment at their desired FTE (up to the maximum FTE of the advertised position). Applicants on the eligibility list will be offered the remaining FTE but are not obliged to accept. Further information can be found on the merit selection webpage.
This is a permanent part-time position of 1 day per week, 0.2FTE (full time equivalent)
Black Springs Public School is a 4 point school and as such attracts additional incentives. Please refer 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.