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About this job
Position Information
Strathfield South High School is an inclusive, comprehensive Public High School with a Support Unit of 12 classes, 8 Autism, 4 Hearing impairment, located in Sydney's inner west. The School enrolments are approximately 576 students. The school is culturally and linguistically diverse, with 80% of students coming from a non-English speaking background. We celebrate and champion diversity and work collaboratively with our community to ensure all students develop a deep understanding and empathy for the cultural backgrounds of themselves and others.
Specific Selection Criteria
- Approval to teach secondary library or currently undertaking or currently enrolled in Teacher Librarian qualifications approved by the NSW Department of Education and demonstrated classroom management skills to effective support the learning of a diverse student body.
- High level technology skills with the capacity to develop and maintain a modern, innovative library that supports and inspires teaching and learning across the entire school.
- Demonstrated strong interpersonal and communication skills and capacity to collaborate with colleagues to create teaching and learning experiences that promote collaboration, critical and creative thinking and digital literacy.
- Highly developed organisational skills including the capacity to promote and a manage the Premier’s Reading Challenge and co-ordinate external testing schoolwide.
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 are to include details of their WWCC clearance number as part of this application.
If applicable, engagement will be temporary until successful completion of the Teacher Library qualifications as recognised by the NSW Department of Education which must be completed within 24 months
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.