Teacher Personal Development, Health and Physical Education - ($20k Recruitment Bonus plus $5-8k Relocation Support Payment) - Merriwa Central School

Permanent full-time job at Merriwa Central School (Merriwa, New South Wales, Australia) recruited via NSW Department of Education (Sydney NSW, Australia)
Job Reference 0000AT62
Closing date December 4, 2024 (AEST)
Location Bow St, Merriwa 2329 NSW, Australia
Type Full-Time
Status Permanent
Contact Darren Noonan
02 6548 2119

About this job

Position Information

Merriwa Central School is located in a supportive rural community, approximately two hours west of Newcastle. The school caters for an enrolment of 235 students from Kindergarten to Year 12 with a separate secondary and primary campus. The school encourages all students to embrace their identity and now has 20% of students identifying as Aboriginal. The school has an ongoing commitment to the development and delivery of quality teaching and learning programs, with an emphasis on improving literacy and numeracy outcomes for all students.  Vocational education is supported by local industry and the Upper Hunter Trade Training Centre.

Specific Selection Criteria
  • Approval to teach Personal Development, Health and Physical Education (PDHPE). 
  • Capacity to plan and coordinate whole-school sporting programs.
  • Well developed communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to contribute to faculty planning and develop positive relationships with students, staff and the wider community.
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.

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