Teacher - Career Practitioner

This is a permanent full-time position commencing Term 1, 2025Geraldton Senior High School (SHS) is an inclusive, diverse, and vibrant, growing school of choice located in a coastal, connected community.
In 2019 the school transitioned to a Year 7 to 12 campus with an additional 3-year groups added to the school site.
The school has adjusted well to this change and staff have worked to ensure younger students are catered for and provided with opportunities throughout their six years of schooling.
The first group of Year 7 students will complete Year 12 in 2024.Our collective vision and moral purpose is 'Learning Now, for the Future'.
We are dedicated to this vision, and it calls us to action in several areas that define what Learning Now, for the Future, means.It means that we teach a curriculum that is rich with real world relevance and has embedded career development within it.
Our students are exposed to opportunities for career exploration through language and work-related skills.
We teach our students to be literate and numerate to provide them with the foundation of empowerment for their futures.
This is balanced with the commitment to explicit teaching of social, emotional, and self-regulation skills, in order to prepare them for a life of wellbeing.
We focus on our students becoming effective positive communicators.
We design our learning experiences to ensure students learn to think critically and problem solve, using design thinking as crucial STEM thinking skills for the future.
We help our students define what the future is for them, and what success looks like for them, in both the short term and long term.
Above all, we purposefully plan learning that will prepare our students to contribute to their community and society as a whole.Find out more about our school by visiting or The RoleWe are seeking to appoint a Career Practitioner, a specialist teacher who will support the career development of students.
This is an exciting opportunity for teachers with an interest in student career pathways.
Our Career Practitioner will work with the school leadership team and embed career development and work exposure activities into curricular and co-curricular programs.
Career Practitioners should be innovators and have the ability to work collaboratively across a school.
They will implement programs and provide resources to embed career development across learning areas.
We are looking for a teacher that ideally enjoys working with students to help them imagine and connect with their future career aspirations.
Confidence to make decisions and enact necessary curriculum reform will be important attributes for the role.
Teachers in this specialist role should also be competent in the interpretation and analysis of system and school-based data.To be successful for this role, a high level of knowledge about the diversity of career pathways, with an understanding of school contexts in relation to local employers, community agencies and training providers is desirable.
Career Practitioners should also have strong communication skills and be able to liaise with and share information easily with students, staff, parents, training providers, employers and industry.
The successful applicant will need to work collaboratively and flexibly with the local TAFE and experience in organising excursions is highly desirable.If you don't hold a recognised Graduate Certificate in Career Development, you will complete a qualification - which will be funded by the Department.
Time will be made available for the successful applicant to complete the qualification, and study will be incorporated into the role in the first 12 months.
If you already hold an equivalent qualification, recognition of prior learning may be possible.The successful applicant appointed to the Career Practitioner position will be required to complete a Graduate Certificate in Career Development if you don't already hold one.Professional BenefitsWorking for the Department of Education comes with a wide range of benefits designed to support both your professional and personal well-being.
These benefits include competitive salaries, flexible working arrangements, extensive training and career development opportunities, and attractive leave provisions.
Here are some of the key benefits you will enjoy: Attractive Country Teaching Program Allowance of $5,000 per year11.5 percent employer contributions to superannuation12 weeks' vacation leave (school holidays)More than 20 days of other leave, including sick leave and carers' leaveSubsidised accommodation where applicableFree relocation Find out more about the benefits by visiting .Following the registration of the new School Education Act Employees' (Teachers and Administrators) General Agreement 2023, please be aware that some allowance rates may change.For additional information to all allowances and housing please contact Housing and Transport at or on (08) 9264 5154.Mobility appointments for permanent metropolitan and south west teachersEligible permanent teachers who hold a substantive teaching position in a North or South Education Region school, or a South West Education Region school* may elect to undertake this role as a 3-year mobility appointment, with a right of return to their substantive position.
At the cessation of the 3-year mobility appointment, teachers can elect to return to their substantive role, or transfer permanently into this school.Find out if you are eligible .
*Note that south west teachers are not eligible to move to another south west school under this trial.Want to know more?For more information about this opportunity, please contact Karena Shearing, Principal on (08) 9965 8400 or emailing Equity and DiversityWe are committed to an inclusive and culturally responsive workforce reflecting the diversity in our schools and the Western Australian community.
We welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, young people, people of diverse sexualities and genders, people with disability, and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
Explore our for more details.EligibilityTo work with us, you must: hold an eligible .be an Australian or New Zealand citizen, permanent resident or have a valid visa with relevant work rights for the term of the appointment.apply for a WA Working with Children Check before you start; andconsent to and obtain a National Criminal History Check with the Department's Screening Unit.
Application InstructionsAll applications must be submitted online.Step 1: Select Apply for Job Complete the online application, including details of two (2) work-related referees, with one (1) preferably being your current line manager.
Step 2: Attach your documentsYour application should include: A statement demonstrating your Professional Knowledge, Professional Practice, and Professional Engagement aligned with the and the context of the position and school.A CV outlining your employment history and professional learning summary relevant to this position.
It is recommended you have your attachments ready before you start your application.For tips on writing your best teaching job application and more information about working for the Department of Education, go to the Department's or see our applicant resource attached.Your application must be received before the closing date and time.
Late applications will not be accepted.For technical support submitting your application, you can call the Department of Education's Recruitment team on (08) 9264 4127 for assistance.Advertised Vacancy Number: IPS/TCH931896Suitable applicants may be considered for similar vacancies arising within the next 12 months following this selection process.
This may include circumstances where the successful applicant declines or vacates the position.The Department applies a four (4) day breach period to this selection process.Applications close: 4:30pm (AWST) on Thursday, 14 November 2024