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About this job
Position Information
Billabong High School is a rural comprehensive high school located in the Greater Hume Shire between Albury and Wagga Wagga. The student population is approximately 350 students with a teaching staff allocation in 2024 of 37.4. The school is situated on Wiradjuri land and eleven percent of the student population identify as having an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background.
Students travel from a number of local townships to attend Billabong High School and the school works in partnership with the community to seek high quality educational outcomes for all students. Priorities include: pursuing excellence in line with the School Excellence Framework, driving literacy and numeracy growth, collaborative practice, and the development of an inclusive and positive school culture that promotes wellbeing for both students and staff alike.
The school has three multi-categorical classes including an integration support class and a structured teaching support class. A Learning and Wellbeing Hub was established in 2021 to provide targeted support across the school. Students access the Wellbeing Hub to engage in activities aimed at improving wellbeing outcomes and school connections. The Wellbeing Hub complements the earlier established Learning Hub where targeted support is provided to improve learning outcomes.
Specific Selection Criteria
Approval to teach PDHPE
- Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to contribute to faculty planning.
- Capacity to contribute to sport and extra-curricular activities at school.
- Ability to develop positive relationships with students, staff and the wider community.
- Ability to use effective classroom management strategies to create a classroom environment that is engaging, inclusive and fosters a culture of high expectations.
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.
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.