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About this job
Position Information
Snowy Valleys School, is a school for specific purposes that caters for the educational and wellbeing needs for 33 students from 4-18 (K-12) with a moderate to severe intellectual disability, autism and complex needs including physical disability, sensory impairment, challenging behaviour and health care needs. The school has 5 permanent classes. Snowy Valleys School is in the rural town of Tumut and is part of the Gundagai Network of Schools. The school has a reputation for quality in special education and values strong relationships with families, key stakeholders from allied health services, local support agencies and the community.
Our school values are Respect, Achievement and Safety which underpins our Positive Behaviour for Learning program. The school is strongly focused on quality teaching, relevant curriculum, student wellbeing programs such as the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden program and preparing our students for their life after school through our comprehensive Transition to Work Program. All of these programs prepare our students to achieve our school motto 'Planning and Learning Today for Living and Working Tomorrow'. Fur further information about out school, please visit our website:
https://snowyvalleys-s.schools.nsw.gov.au/
Please include your current WWCC details.
Specific Selection Criteria
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Approval to teach special education and/or experience teaching students with autism, moderate to severe intellectual disabilities and physical disabilities and challenging behaviours with demonstrated ability to implement strategies that meet their communication, sensory, social and behavioural needs.
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Demonstrated commitment to student wellbeing with the ability to develop and effectively implement individual learning plans, behaviour support plans and risk management plans with all stakeholders to support the behavioural, social, sensory and learning needs of students.
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Demonstrated ability to design and teach quality, differentiated educational programs and develop Personalised Learning Support Plans and Behaviour Management Plans for students with a wide range of individual learning needs, while providing a culture of high expectations for all students in a multistage setting.
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Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills with the proven ability to work collaboratively, proactively and professionally with colleagues, parents, carers, school learning support officers, support agencies and the wider 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.
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
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