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About this job
Position Information
Buxton Public School is located in a semi-rural setting in the Wollondilly Shire. The school currently has an enrolment of approximately 168 students. The school values Aboriginal culture with 15% of students enrolled identifying as Aboriginal. The school established a Junior AECG in partnership with two neighbouring schools last year, with strong links within the community.
Buxton Public School has established strong relationships with the community and provides a range of extracurricular activities in sport, technology and creative and performing arts, as well as engaging in a range of community initiatives and events. Buxton Public School has an emphasis on delivering targeted, differentiated, evidence-informed practices underpinned by high expectations, whilst we nurture a community of caring life-long learners.
Specific Selection Criteria
1. Approval to teach, and experience in teaching students with learning and support needs (primary) in regular classes, working collaboratively alongside classroom teachers.
2. Proven success in the delivery of data-driven small-group and individual intervention programs, through the creation and implementation of evidence based personalised learning and support plans.
3. Experience and/or willingness to work alongside the Learning and Support Team in administrative tasks, such as NCCD data collection and access request submissions.
4. Outstanding organisational, interpersonal and communication skills with demonstrated capacity to build positive, collaborative relationships with staff, students, parents/carers and external providers.
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 part time 0.4FTE role
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 people of all backgrounds, including but not limited to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, people of any age or gender, people from culturally and linguistically diverse groups and/or from the LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, refugees, people with disability, people with sensory differences, and neurodiverse people. If we can make some adjustments to our recruitment/interview process to better help you shine, please reach out to the contact person for this recruitment, details listed above. For more information, visit the NSW Department of Education’s Diversity, equity and inclusion webpage.
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.
If you are new or returning to the Department of Education and have relevant prior professional experience, you can submit a Salary determination for classroom teachers application form to request a salary determination. Until the outcome of any such determination is confirmed, your salary offer will remain at Step 1 then be updated at a later date (typically a 1–2-week processing time post receipt of the form). For further details on this process, please see the Department’s policy here: Salary determination.