Specialist Teacher/Teacher of the Deaf - Primary and High School Skip to content
About us We are a proud Western Australian success story and a family centred practice. TSH (formally Telethon Speech & Hearing) provides integrated services for children with hearing loss and/or speech and language difficulties from newborns to 18-year-olds. A team of education professionals work collaboratively alongside allied health professionals to empower children to hear, communicate, connect and learn.
About the role We are seeking a specialist Teacher to join our highly regarded Outpost Program – a program which provides comprehensive in-school support for students with hearing loss who use oral communication from K-12 at our partner primary and secondary schools around the Perth Metropolitan area.
This is a truly unique teaching role that provides individualised specialist support to students who are fully integrated into mainstream classes and receive the curriculum from our partner school, Frederick Irwin Anglican School.
This full-time, permanent role partners with a highly skilled team of professionals (including psychologists, speech pathologists, audiologists and occupational therapists), to work with students both within the classroom as well as away from the mainstream classes to focus on specific areas including extra language, speech, auditory, social/emotional and academic support.
About you The successful candidate will be an experienced and/or qualified Special Needs Teacher with highly developed numeracy, literacy and language skills. Extensive knowledge of childhood social and emotional development is required as well as the ability to create an inclusive and nurturing environment that recognises every person's unique talent and fosters positive outcomes.
The successful candidate will also have a history of building strong relationships with external stakeholders and families, be adaptable to different expectations and environments and be able to coordinate and utilise the resources and knowledge around them to provide exceptional support to individual students.
TSH is committed to providing a child safe environment and promoting practices which provide for the safety, wellbeing and welfare of our children, clients and families. Therefore, in addition to the above selection criteria, short listed applicants will also be assessed against their ability to support and maintain a child safe environment.
Ongoing Support TSH is committed to excellence therefore we will provide a comprehensive induction program and ongoing professional development to build knowledge of supporting individual students with a hearing loss.
Scholarships for Master level qualifications are available to TSH employees who have aspirations to build a long-term career supporting children with hearing loss. Scholarships are subject to terms and conditions and based on a formal selection process.
Interested? For a confidential discussion regarding this opportunity in our Outpost Program, please contact Richard Wright, Deputy Principal, on 9387-9888.
Please submit your application via SEEK by 9am, Monday 18th November 2024.
TSH is an equal opportunity employer and we encourage people from different backgrounds to apply, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds and people with disabilities.
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