Rooty Hill High School is a highly successful 7-12 government comprehensive school in western Sydney. There are 1100 students, 5% of whom are from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds. The school FOEI is 121, reflecting its culturally and linguistically diverse community.
The school's principles and practices are underpinned by the school's PERSIST values and the school’s commitment to "give every student the opportunity to do his or her best".
The school received the Public Education Foundation Award in 2023 for Professional Practice and in 2025 for its personalised learning, expansive learning, student agency and learning journeys programs, programs that enable students to develop their potential and achieve strong academic, sporting, creative and citizenship results.
The school has sophisticated systems of evidence informed decision making, strategic planning and operational management led by talented executive and staff teams focused on student, school and community progress and achievement.
The Deputy Principal (ACIP) works with the senior executive to deliver the strategic, operational, wellbeing and curriculum priorities. In addition, the Deputy Principal has carriage of working with key school teams to deliver universal, targeted and intensive programs with students in two year groups and engaging with their families and the community as they progress through the school. This role also has specific responsibilities for working with the school's learning support team to deliver the school's inclusion and learning support initiatives.
In addition to the general selection criteria,
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Strong educational leadership and teaching capabilities with a proven ability to lead universal, targeted and intensive student learning programs and professional practice to build academic engagement and success.
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Leading with purpose as a member of the school’s senior executive to engage a culturally and linguistically diverse student and school community giving every student the opportunity to do his or her best.
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Highly developed skills in the use of evidence, the School Excellence Framework, evaluative practice and the School Excellence Policy to plan, effectively implement and evaluate the school’s strategic, operational and professional projects.
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Proven ability to work with colleagues to successfully lead inclusive education, and design and support complex case management for students with attendance, learning and wellbeing needs and their families.
1. Successful teaching experience with capacity to initiate improvement in teaching, learning and classroom practice
2. Knowledge of curriculum, assessment and student welfare with the ability to lead and design quality, inclusive teaching and learning programs
3. Educational leadership skills to build the capacity and manage the performance of individuals and teams
4. Well developed communication and interpersonal skills with the capacity to build relationships and engage students, staff and parents
5. Ability to plan and manage resources effectively and equitably to support teaching and learning
6. Knowledge of and commitment to the Department's Aboriginal education policy
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.
This is an above centrally identified permanent position established through school funds. The successful candidate’s continued appointment to this position will be subject to the continuity of funding, the ongoing requirement of the position and the educational needs of the school.
Should the funding or the requirement for the position cease, the teacher will receive nominated transfer status; please refer to the Staffing Procedure for the Teaching Service in NSW Public Schools for additional information. When accepting the position, the successful applicant will be indicating their acceptance of the terms and conditions attached to this appointment.
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.
How to Apply
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.
For technical support please contact School Recruitment Support at 1300 863 694.
