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About this job
Position Information
Chifley College Mount Druitt Campus is a multi-campus college established in 2000 to enhance educational opportunities for students in the Mount Druitt area. The college has an enrolment of 604 students, including 22% Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and a significant number of Pacific Islander students. Committed to the Premier's Priorities to lift education standards, the campus focuses on literacy, numeracy, differentiation, and explicit teaching.
The school received substantial funding to support student learning outcomes through the Resource Allocation Model (RAM), which includes equity loading for Aboriginal background, English language proficiency, low-level adjustment for disability, and socio-economic background. Additionally, flexible Well-being funds, Beginning Teachers funds, and Professional Learning funds ensure the school is well-resourced, catering to the individual needs of both staff and students while addressing various educational aspects.
Dedicated to continually improving effective classroom practices, the school emphasizes staff professional learning to enhance literacy and numeracy levels through excellent teaching and improved data analysis. This approach supports individualised and differentiated learning.
The school has strong partnerships with parent forums, the Local Aboriginal Education Consultative Group (AECG), local Aboriginal Elders, partner primary schools, universities, TAFE, local businesses, industry and community welfare organisations.
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 and their teachers.
- Proven ability to collaborate with classroom teachers to differentiate curriculum and support assessment for learning, effectively catering to students with additional educational needs. Competent in assisting with the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data (NCCD) on School Students with Disability, ensuring accurate and thorough data collection and reporting.
- Demonstrated capacity in implementing, modelling, monitoring, and reviewing individualized education programs (IEPs) to enrich learning experiences and maximize outcomes for students with additional needs. This includes using data to tailor and adjust programs to meet evolving student needs.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, essential for building supportive and effective relationships with students, parents/carers, staff, and outside agencies. Capable of working sensitively within a caring, multi-disciplinary team to meet the additional learning and wellbeing needs of students, leveraging data to support decision-making and program effectiveness.
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
Successful applicants may be entitled to a Recruitment Bonus of $20,000 (Conditions Apply).
A Relocation Support Payment of $5,000 up to $8,000 will be available for eligible applicants.
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.