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About this job
Position Information
Drummond Memorial Public School is located in Armidale, in rural north NSW. The school serves 215 students across various educational settings, with 40% identifying as Aboriginal or Torres Straight Islander. It offers 9 mainstream classes from Kindergarten to Year 6, along with an Inclusion and Support Unit comprising of two Multi-Categorical classes, a Tutorial Centre (ATLC), and a Suspension Centre (Karayuna).
The school is dedicated to enhancing student learning and wellbeing through tailored programs. The staff focuses on Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and utilises evidence-informed literacy programming to support student growth.
Specific Selection Criteria
1. Approval to teach Hearing Impairment (Primary/ Secondary). Expertise in Auslan is highly desirable.
2. Proven expertise in assessing student needs to develop, deliver, monitor, and evaluate targeted learning plans to address the complex needs of Deaf and Hard of Hearing students across various educational settings.
3. Highly developed communication, interpersonal and organisational skills with a proven capacity to build positive relationships and work collaboratively with students, staff, parents, and external agencies to meet the needs of students with hearing loss.
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
Ability and willingness to travel between worksites.
This advertisement qualifies for permanent part-time employment;
therefore, applicants seeking either permanent full-time or permanent
part-time work are encouraged to apply. Candidates must indicate their
desired FTE (up to the maximum FTE of the advertised position) in their
application prior to submission.
Please note:
The FTE selection is final.
• No changes (increase or decrease) will be permitted at the point of offer if you are the recommended applicant.
• If no FTE is indicated, it will be assumed you are seeking the full FTE of the advertised role.
Recommended applicants seeking part-time employment will be
appointed at their nominated FTE. Any remaining FTE may be offered to
applicants on the eligibility list, who are not obliged to accept. Further
information can be found on the Merit selection procedure webpage.
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.