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About this job
Position Information
South Grafton High School is a rural, comprehensive, coeducational high school of 700 students, 64 teaching and 17 non-teaching staff. Many of our students come from a low SES background and 27% of them identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. SGHS is located on the southern side of the Clarence River, in the heart of the Clarence Valley and within easy driving distance of Coffs Harbour, Yamba and Maclean. The school has excellent facilities including an agricultural farm, modern science laboratories, a Trade Training Centre for our Construction course and industry standard kitchens for our Hospitality course. In addition to this, our classroom teaching spaces are being upgraded to provide learning environments that are functional and engaging.
Our school provides learning environments that cater for individual student learning needs, as well as opportunities that allow all students to develop to their full potential. This includes an integrated model that supports five MC classes, an ED class and a Tutorial class. In addition to this, the school funds a Transition Learning Centre (TLC), which supports students struggling with the demands of mainstream classes, a Clontarf Academy, which provides targeted support to our Aboriginal boys and a STARS Academy to provide similar support to our Aboriginal girls.
SGHS has a supportive P&C and works closely with the local AECG.
Specific Selection Criteria
1. Approval to teach Science 7-10, Biology and Chemistry.
2. Capacity to work as a collaborative faculty member in designing and delivering differentiated curriculum for a range of diverse and complex learners.
3. Well developed communication, interpersonal skills and organisational capacity.
4. Willingness to build 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
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.