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About this job
Position Information
Warialda Public School is excited to be opening our new public preschool. This initiative is part of the NSW Government’s commitment to deliver 100 new public preschools by 2027.
Warialda Public School, established in 1851, is a proud educational community located on Kamilaroi Country within a rural and remote region. Our school currently educates 176 students, with 21% identifying as Aboriginal. Warialda Public School has a dedicated staff, at various career stages, who strive to ensure they maintain high professional standards and deliver quality learning to their students with a focus on continual improvement and reducing the impact of disadvantage in our community, and ensuring all students are known, valued, and cared for. Warialda Public School embraces evidence-based practice and uses data to drive the use of high impact strategies such as explicit teaching and feedback, high expectations and individualised learning goals and case management as core components to our quality learning environment pedagogy. Our school plan has a significant school improvement focus in the areas of growth and attainment, student wellbeing and attendance, as well as effective classroom practice.
Specific Selection Criteria
- Approval to teach preschool holding an ACECQA approved teaching qualification, with working knowledge of and ability to implement the National Quality Framework including Early Childhood Education and Care National Law & Regulations and National Quality Standards.
- Demonstrated commitment to protecting and promoting the safety, wellbeing and rights of all children
- Demonstrated capacity to plan and implement a preschool program based on the Early Years Learning Framework, including a thorough understanding of age-appropriate pedagogies including play-based learning and intentional teaching.
- Demonstrated ability to build positive relationships with students and families from diverse backgrounds through excellent communication, time management and interpersonal skills to manage the complexity of a preschool setting.
- Proven ability to work collaboratively as part of a whole school team, including specialist school-based staff and external agencies, to design, implement and evaluate effective programs transitions for students into primary school.
- A commitment to embedding cultural responsiveness into the preschool program.
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.
This advertisement qualifies for permanent part-time employment; therefore, applicants seeking either permanent full-time or permanent part-time work are encouraged to apply. Candidates must indicate their desired FTE (up to the maximum FTE of the advertised position) in their application prior to submission.
Please note:
- The FTE selection is final.
- No changes (increase or decrease) will be permitted at the point of offer if you are the recommended applicant.
- If no FTE is indicated, it will be assumed you are seeking the full FTE of the advertised role.
Recommended applicants seeking part-time employment will be appointed at their nominated FTE. Any remaining FTE may be offered to applicants on the eligibility list, who are not obliged to accept. Further information can be found on the merit selection webpage.
Special Notes
Entry on Duty date will be Term 3, 2026.
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. The department is committed to protecting and promoting the safety, wellbeing and rights of all children.
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.