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About this job
Position Information
Karonga School is a school for specific purposes with an enrolment of 78 students with moderate to severe intellectual disabilities from 4 to 18 years of age. Our students come from diverse cultural backgrounds with 72% of students from language backgrounds other than English. Many of the students also have additional behavioural, healthcare, physical and/or sensory needs. Karonga values its parents and caregivers as key partners in their child’s education. Karonga has strong and dynamic connections with the broader community and outside agencies. Karonga School hosts Pennant Parade Tutorial Centre (PPTC).
Applicants are invited to review the annual school report and current plan available on our school website: www.karonga-s.schools.nsw.edu.au/home
Specific Selection Criteria
1. Approval to teach special education and/or experience teaching students with moderate to severe intellectual and physical disabilities, autism, complex needs and challenging behaviour.
2. Ability to design and deliver differentiated learning and positive support programs to engage students with special needs.
3. Demonstrated classroom management skills that support the needs of a diverse range of students, including students with challenging behaviours.
4. Ability to work in partnership with staff, families, students and other key stakeholders to prioritise and deliver learning programs for achievement of students outcomes.
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.