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About this job
Position Information
Redbank School is a NSW School for Specific Purposes (SSP) located within the Westmead and Nepean Hospital Precincts, supporting students in Years 7–12 with complex and diverse mental health needs. The school provides a safe, supportive and individualised learning environment where education and wellbeing are closely connected.
Working in partnership with families, community schools, allied health professionals and mental health services, Redbank School supports students to re-engage with learning, build resilience and develop positive pathways for the future. The school is committed to fostering student wellbeing, successful transitions and reintegration into mainstream education, further study or employment where appropriate.
Applicants must demonstrate the capacity and flexibility to work across three school locations, including adolescent inpatient wards within hospital settings. The school operates across Westmead and Nepean Hospitals, providing specialised educational programs to students with complex mental health needs. As part of this role, successful applicants will be required to engage effectively in multidisciplinary environments and adapt to the unique demands of inpatient education.
Specific Selection Criteria
Capacity to adapt teaching practice, support strategies and learning programs to meet the diverse educational and wellbeing needs of students with complex mental health needs?
Demonstrated capacity to work collaboratively with families, health professionals, external agencies or multidisciplinary teams to support a student's learning, wellbeing and successful educational outcomes.
Describe a situation where you successfully supported a student experiencing significant barriers to engagement. What strategies did you implement and what impact did they have on the student's learning, wellbeing and future pathways?
Provide an example of how you have effectively managed a dynamic workload involving students with diverse needs, changing priorities and varying levels of engagement.
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
This advertisement is for two (2) classroom teacher positions.
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.
Merit selection application guidelines for classroom teachers, executives and principals provide clear advice for applicants and selection panels. The guidelines are available here.
The successful applicant will be appointed to Redbank School and may be based at either the Westmead or Nepean campus.
Staff working in schools within hospitals and youth justice centres must follow any vaccination requirements of NSW Health and Department of Communities and Justice respectively.
To meet the page limits outlined in the guidelines, all application attachments must be submitted in PDF format. Please note that late applications will not be accepted.