Teacher Special Education - Doonside Technology High School

Permanent full-time job recruited via NSW Department of Education (Sydney NSW, Australia)
Job Reference 0000B4EC
Closing date December 10, 2025 (AEST)
Location Power St, Doonside 2767 NSW, Australia
Type Full-Time
Status Permanent
Contact Nathan Brown
9622 2463

About this job

Position Information
Doonside Technology High School is a co-educational Years 7–12 inclusive high school with a strong focus on explicit teaching strategies and comprehensive wellbeing structures. In 2025, the school has 715 students. The student population is highly diverse: 18% identify as Aboriginal, and 29% come from a background where English is an additional language or dialect. The Support Unit provides for 74 students with mild, moderate and severe intellectual disabilities. The school proudly celebrates this diversity and ensures all students are actively included in every aspect of school life. Wellbeing and student learning support remain central to the school's strategic directions. Programs such as the Berry Street Education Model, Life Education, RoSA@Work, the Learning Support Hub, and Wellbeing Hub have been recognised with Secretary and Minister's Awards, reflecting their positive impact on student engagement, wellbeing and retention. The school has recently been acknowledged for our work in Explicit Teaching through the CESE Illustration of Practice. Additionally, DTHS has been recognised as the most improved public school over the past decade, with the highest growth in average HSC results in NSW. In 2025, Doonside Technology High School completed External Validation, where it was deemed to be excelling in 13 of the 14 elements of the School Excellence Framework. This achievement reflects the school's commitment to delivering individualised, high-quality teaching and learning, underpinned by genuine relationships and a strong sense of belonging.
Specific Selection Criteria

Approval to teach special education and / or experience teaching students with a mild to severe intellectual disability.

 

Quality classroom practice and highly developed management skills which enhance student engagement through enriched, differentiated, and individualised learning programs.

 

Demonstrated capacity to contribute positively to the Support Unit Faculty and effectively collaborate to support the holistic development of 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 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.

 

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