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About this job
Position Information
Broken Hill High School is a comprehensive high school with 435 students (24% Aboriginal) in Far West New South Wales. The school is proud of its academic, cultural and sporting achievements as well as catering for all students. The school has 7 support classes for students with learning support needs. The school has an ongoing partnership and shares some senior curriculum with a neighbouring high school. Strong community ties are evident through the P&C as well as partnerships with the Clontarf foundation to assist Aboriginal boys with their education and career pathways. The school has a strong welfare focus and is a HPGE partner school.
Specific Selection Criteria
1. Approval to teach special education and/or experience in teaching students with Autism, Behaviour Difficulties, Mild Intellectual Disabilities and Moderate Intellectual Disabilities in a secondary setting.
2. Proven ability to develop and deliver responsive programs with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives and content.
3. Demonstrated ability to design and deliver high quality, differentiated programs that cater for the individual social, emotional, cultural, sensory, behavioural, communication and the academic requirements of students with diverse learning needs.
4. Highly developed interpersonal skills with a focus on teamwork, effective communication and building relationships with students, colleagues, parents, external personnel and the wider school community to improve outcomes for all students.
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 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.
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