About this job
Location: Nicholls, ACT
Employment Type: Permanent
Employment Status: Part-time
Salary Range: $76,754 to $126,236 plus superannuation
Start Date: Commencing August 2024 (negotiable)
Closing Date: 11.55pm, Wednesday 10 July 2024
About Us
Catholic Education, Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn (CECG) plays an integral role in education in the ACT and NSW, operating 56 Catholic Systemic Schools and nine Early Learning Centres.
CECG is committed to workforce diversity and creating inclusive workplaces. We welcome applications from suitable candidates from all diversity groups to support our system of schools and early learning centres in delivering quality education outcomes for the students in our care.
About the School
Holy Spirit Primary School has a strong focus on literacy and numeracy with a commitment to engaging students of all ability levels. The school balances its formal curriculum with an emphasis on growth mindset, inquiry learning, the Arts and creative thinking.
About the Role
Holy Spirit Primary is currently seeking to appoint an enthusiastic Year 5 Classroom Teacher who is driven to join a team of hardworking professionals who will nurture each child’s talents and gifts through the dynamic and stimulating curriculum and opportunities that we offer. You will be responsible for fostering academic excellence, creating a dynamic learning environment, and growing each child to be engaged, focused and an independent learner whilst providing the highest level of pastoral care.
Benefits and Opportunities
- A positive and collaborative workplace culture
- An extensive training in our high-quality professional learning program, Catalyst
- Access to curriculum resources that support evidence-based, high impact teaching practice
- Permanent contract
- Access to salary packaging, including novated leasing
- 24 weeks of paid parental leave (maternity/adoption)
- Up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave (paternity/non-initial primary carer leave)
Key Responsibilities
- Create a learning environment which stimulates learning and promotes excellence, and which accepts and acknowledges the needs of students to be both challenged and supported
- Use a variety of teaching and learning techniques to meet individual needs as far as is possible
- Identify learner needs, conferring with specialist staff in the school when necessary
- Provide timely and useful feedback about completed assessment items to students
- Fulfil all requirements relating to assessment and its documentation
- Communicate in a clear, respectful, and professional way to optimise each student’s development
- Maintain professional confidentiality on information about students
- Prepare, record, and evaluate work to be undertaken by classes
- Mark and assess students’ work and keep complete and accurate records of each student’s progress
- Communicate with parents in written reports and parent teacher interviews and at other times as required
- Undertake regular professional development, such as reading and attending courses, for the development of knowledge and skills on a personal basis, to consider current developments relevant to the needs of students and the requirements of the curriculum
- Keep abreast of knowledge and curriculum development in teaching areas as well as current developments in educational thinking
Qualifications
- Must hold a relevant Working with Vulnerable Children Registration
- Must hold a valid Teacher Quality Institute (TQI) Accreditation
- Must have completed relevant Education/Teaching tertiary qualification
Selection Criteria
- Highly effective communication and interpersonal skills so as to engage positively with colleagues, students and parents.
- The capacity to be a proactive member of a professional learning community complying with the legal, administrative and professional requirements.
- Classroom practices and organisational skills that create supportive and safe environments for all students, including meeting a variety of learning needs.
- A thorough knowledge of the Australian Curriculum with the ability to lead, organise, and design content for effective teaching and learning within the classroom and across the school.
- A comprehensive understanding of assessment and reporting strategies and the need to provide effective and timely feedback to parents and students.
- Knowledge of Holy Spirit’s vision for learning; inclusive of our Catalyst learning approach.
Please refer to the role description for an in-depth detail regarding criteria and skill set required.
Other Eligibility Criteria
- You must be an Australian Citizen or Permanent Resident to be eligible to apply for this position
- Appointment is subject to satisfactory employment screening for child-related employment in accordance with CECG policy.
Application Process
Applicants are required to submit a cover letter and current resume including a statement of suitability against the skills, attributes and experience as outlined in the Position Description.
This position involves working with children. The appointment of successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory employment screening for child related employment in accordance with CE policy.
For further information about the School please visit our website. Information about Catholic Education Archdiocese of Canberra & Goulburn can be accessed here.
Position specific queries: Please contact Principal, Julie Wiley on 02 6241 8640 or via email julie.wiley@cg.catholic.edu.au
Application queries: Please contact the Recruitment team on 02 6218 0007 or via email recruitment@cg.catholic.edu.au
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