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About this job
Position Information
Coleambally Central School is a vibrant Kindergarten to Year 12 rural school with 160 students located on Wiradjuri land in the Riverina Region. The school population includes 19% students identifying as Aboriginal, an Index of Community Educational Advantage (ICSEA) of 921 and a Family Occupation and Education Index (FOEI) of 115.
Enrolment draws from the townships of Coleambally and Darlington Point and from a large, surrounding farming area and is situated on a spacious and idyllic setting adjacent to the Coleambally business district. The school incorporates Tirkandi Inaburra, an off-site unit that provides both EDBD education and Aboriginal cultural emersion. Up to 14 Aboriginal boys attend Tirkandi Inaburra as shared enrolment – Coleambally Central School and their home school – over one school term in a residential setting.
Coleambally Central School strives to provide high quality and individualised education characterised by effective teaching and learning in a caring environment to meet the present and future needs of all students in partnership with our families and the community.
Specific Selection Criteria
Approval to teach Personal Development, Health and Physical Education (PDHPE) with approval and/or willingness to teach Sport, Lifestyle and Recreation, Physical Activity and Sport Studies.
Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to develop positive relationships with students, staff and the wider community to support student learning.
Organisation skills with capacity for initiating and maintaining whole school sport programs.
Capacity to deliver a variety of effective and differentiated learning experiences that will result in student growth across a range of abilities and cultural backgrounds.
Conditions
The successful applicant may be eligible to receive a one-off recruitment payment of $20,000. (Conditions apply)
A relocation support package of $5,000 up to $8,000 will be available for eligible applicants.
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.
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.