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About this job
Position Information
Moss Vale High is a comprehensive Years 7-12 school located in the Southern Highlands with an enrolment of 752 students, including 41 Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander students. Positive Behaviour for Success underpins student wellbeing with our expectations for the school community being Safe, Respectful and Responsible.
Moss Vale High School has an expansive curriculum that supports the learning needs of students across all key learning areas. The school’s current strategic directions are focused on Student Attainment and Growth, Student Wellbeing and Engagement and Building Teacher Capacity to Improve Student Outcomes. We have a whole school focus on Higher Order Ways of Learning, and our staff are committed to improving literacy and numeracy outcomes for all students.
Moss Vale High School is an important member of the Moss Vale Community of Schools. Our highly dedicated and committed staff is instrumental in providing quality education for all students and offering a range of whole school activities. The school experiences strong community support and has highly developed partnerships with our local primary schools.
Specific Selection Criteria
Approval to teach Visual Impairment (Secondary) and Visual Impairment (Primary).
Demonstrated high-level interpersonal skills and the capacity to effectively communicate across all stakeholders within the school context, including students, parent/carers, external agencies and the wider community, to build and enhance a culture of inclusivity.
Demonstrated understanding of visual impairments, with an in-depth knowledge of the various types of visual impairments, their impact on learning and the support required.
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.
Ability and willingness to travel between worksites.
Special Notes
Applicants are to include details of their WWCC clearance number as part of this application.
Ability and willingness to travel between worksites.
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.