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About this job
Position Information
Hampden Park Public School is a large primary school of approximately 880 students in the south west Sydney suburb of Lakemba. Our community represents over 40 nationalities and students coming from non-English speaking backgrounds. There are 13% of students with refugee status or refugee-like experiences. Our main community languages are Urdu, Bangla, Arabic and Indonesian.
The school provides excellent education for all students from Kindergarten to Year 6 and we have five support classes. Our dedicated and enthusiastic staff focus on ongoing professional development and improvement, engage in distributed leadership practices and contribute to a culture of high expectations to ensure the best education for each student. We actively seek student and parent voice in building a positive school community. Our parent community has aspirations for their children to be confident, respectful toward others and successful learners.
Specific Selection Criteria
- Approval to teach special education and/or experience teaching students with complex needs such as moderate intellectual disabilities, autism, behavioural difficulties and emotional disturbance.
- Demonstrated ability to design, deliver and evaluate evidence-based teaching practices that respond to students' social, emotional, personal and academic learning needs.
- Demonstrated ability to utilise student assessment and other data to develop, implement and evaluate differentiated and innovative individual learning and behaviour response management plans.
- Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work collaboratively in a variety of teams and build strong and inclusive relationships with parents and members of 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.