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About this job
Position Information
Picton High School serves 1,189 students, including 10% from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds and 3% from English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D) backgrounds. The school also offers nine support classes for students with identified learning and support needs.
Located southwest of Sydney, between Camden and Mittagong, we have a regional focus and serve a catchment area that includes seven primary schools.
Around 100 teachers and support staff work together to provide quality education for our students.
Our community is grounded in a strong work ethic with a focus on sports, and our parents are committed to ensuring the best opportunities for their children, including post-school pathways in employment, training, and university.
Specific Selection Criteria
- Approval to teach Industrial Technology Timber (ITW). Approval to teach or preparedness to undertake VET teacher training in Construction providing the qualification entry benchmark is met.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and organisational skills as well as the capacity to work with others including students, parents and colleagues.
- Demonstrated capacity to deliver engaging and innovative learning experiences for a diverse range of students
- Ability to embed meaningful and culturally appropriate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives into learning experiences
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
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.