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About this job
Position Information
Picnic Point High School is a comprehensive co-educational secondary school established in 1962 with 869 students enrolled in 2025. There are 74 teaching staff encompassing a wide range of knowledge and experience. The school offers a diverse curriculum, while maintaining strong, nurturing student wellbeing programs. Approximately 13% of students are from backgrounds where English is an additional language or dialect spoken at home and 4% of students identify as Aboriginal.
The Inclusive Education faculty consists of four inclusive education classes classes catering to mild, moderate and moderate neurodivergent intellectual needs. The school has a highly active and committed P&C, who raise funds to support many school programs. Student voice and achievement is supported through student leadership programs, debating, sport, wellbeing initiatives and mentoring partnerships with local schools.
Specific Selection Criteria
- Approval to teach students with learning and support needs (secondary) and/or experience teaching students with learning and support needs (secondary) in regular classes.
- Capacity to provide specialist assistance to students in regular classes with additional learning and support needs
- Capacity to work collaboratively with teaching staff, students and parents/ carers to develop, implement and evaluate personalised support and learning plans.
- Highly developed interpersonal skills; with the capacity to engage with external stakeholders to further enhance student learning outcomes.
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
This is a permanent part-time position for 4 days per week 0.8FTE (Full-time equivalent).
Applicants are to include details of their WWCC clearance number as part of this application.
The role statement for Learning and Support Teacher may be accessed at: https://education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-and-learning/disability-learning-and-support/personalised-support-for-learning/roles-and-responsibilities
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.
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