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About this job
Position Information
Oran Park Public School is a large metropolitan K-6 school located on Dharawal land in the rapidly growing South Western Sydney corridor, with a current enrolment of approximately 1,410 students. The school comprises 52 mainstream classes and 8 support classes (Inclusive Hub) supporting students with mild and moderate intellectual disabilities and autism.
Our diverse and inclusive school community represents a wide range of cultural, linguistic and socio-economic backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students.
Oran Park Public School fosters a love of learning within a safe, supportive and inclusive environment. The school maintains high expectations for student learning, wellbeing and engagement, with a strong focus on explicit teaching, literacy and numeracy, and evidence-informed practice. Positive Behaviour for Learning, Choice Theory and Kindness on Purpose underpins whole-school wellbeing through the values of being organised, proud, productive and safe.
Students have access to a broad range of learning and extracurricular opportunities, including STEM, representative sport, dance, choir, Schools Spectacular, film, chess, public speaking and visual arts. Staff work collaboratively with families and the wider community to support students to become independent, resilient and successful lifelong learners.
Specific Selection Criteria
1. Approval to teach K-6 and approval to teach library or currently enrolled in Teacher Librarian qualifications approved by the NSW Department of Education, with the ability to develop and deliver high-quality release from face-to-face programs.
2. Demonstrated strong interpersonal and communication skills, working collaboratively with staff to support effective curriculum planning and implementation.
3. Proven ability to develop a strong reading culture that engages diverse learners and supports literacy growth.
4. Ability to create and maintain a vibrant, inclusive and culturally responsive library environment through creativity, initiative and enthusiasm.
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 advertisement is for two teacher positions.
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.