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About this job
Position Information
Barramurra Public School is a newly established primary school, opening at the commencement of 2021, located in the suburb of Oran Park in South Western Sydney. The school has a current enrolment of 1056 students and includes four support unit classes catering for students with a moderate intellectual disability and autism. Barramurra Public School serves a rapidly growing multicultural community with 59% of our students having a language background other than English. Our students come from a wide range of socio-economic backgrounds.
The school has a strong focus on quality teaching including literacy, numeracy and engagement of students through information technologies. A committed staff work in collaborative teams to design, implement and deliver effective programs to improve student outcomes through setting high expectations and differentiating the curriculum.
The school vision is of a high-performing, innovative school with an inspiring and inclusive school culture which promotes excellence, wellbeing and success for all. There is a commitment to ensuring that every student is provided with opportunities to achieve personal growth and success in all areas of school life through engaging, explicit and high impact teaching and learning.
Barramurra Public School values and has strong relationships with the wider school community and has a dedicated and supportive Parents and Citizens' Association.
Specific Selection Criteria
Approval to teach special education and/or experience teaching students with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Intellectual Disabilities (moderate) and supporting complex learning needs including communication, wellbeing and challenging behaviour.
Demonstrated ability to differentiate the curriculum and design, implement and monitor individualised learning and support programs to meet the learning and wellbeing needs, goals and interests of students and the ability to promote inclusion.
Demonstrated skills and experience in using a range of classroom management and wellbeing approaches to cater for the communication, sensory, social and emotional needs of students.
Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills with the proven capacity to work collaboratively in teams and contribute to a positive school culture with students, families, staff and the wider school 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.
All Department of Education employees working in an SSP are required to be vaccinated as outlined at Vaccination requirements for school sites (nsw.gov.au). The successful candidate for this position will be required to confirm vaccination status prior to the department finalising their appointment and entry on duty. Find the department’s latest advice on COVID-19 (coronavirus) at https://education.nsw.gov.au/covid-19.
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.