St Johns Park High School is a proud comprehensive school where more than 90% of students are from a language background other than English. The school has a strong reputation as a provider of quality educational services and outcomes for a diverse community. It includes a growing Special Education unit with seven designated classes for students with mild to moderate intellectual disability and autism. The school has a highly motivated staff to support students’ academic, social and personal growth through a broad, relevant and innovative curriculum including VET pathways, High Potential and Gifted Education programs, Accelerated Mathematics and authentic Project Based Learning. The school is also well known in the community for its external partnerships with partner primary schools, agencies and the business community, strong student leadership programs and values driven wellbeing initiatives through Positive Behaviour for Learning. Our teachers provide a quality learning environment for students that draws on research-informed pedagogy. Teachers are involved in research, collaboration, data analysis and professional learning to continually reflect on and improve their practice.
Approval and/or willingness to teach Special Education and/or demonstrated capacity to deliver high-quality educational programs for students with Autism, Intellectual Disability and complex behavioural or social needs in a Special Education setting.
Highly developed communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to build positive partnerships with students, families and carers of diverse cultural and language backgrounds, school staff and external agencies to strengthen inclusive practice and improve student outcomes.
Demonstrated successful classroom management with flexible and adaptive strategies that create a safe and positive learning environment, promoting student wellbeing, authentic relationships, and success.
Demonstrated experience in implementing individualised behaviour support practices that promote engagement, self-regulation and positive participation in safe, inclusive learning environments.
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.
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.
Merit selection application guidelines for classroom teachers, executives and principals provide clear advice for applicants and selection panels. The guidelines are available here.
To meet the page limits outlined in the guidelines, all application attachments must be submitted in PDF format. Please note that late applications will not be accepted.
