Position Information
J. J. Cahill Memorial High School is located in Mascot, a fast-growing residential area. The school has a solid focus on community and works closely with families to support the learning and wellbeing needs of all students. JJCMHS focuses on delivering quality teaching and learning underpinned by evidence-based practices and improved student learning outcomes, particularly literacy and numeracy. The school provides an environment that promotes engagement in learning, challenging students to strive for success, and is a Positive Behaviour for Learning school. The school has an emphasis on supporting student wellbeing. Trauma informed practices and positive behaviour for learning underpin student teacher relationship, behaviour management and teaching practices.
JJCMHS works closely with its community. It has developed strong and effective partnerships with local primary schools and high schools, universities, local agencies and businesses.
JJCMHS caters for the needs of students with a wide range of academic ability. Students come from diverse cultural and socio-economic backgrounds and enrolments are currently at 295, including approximately 21 students who are Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander.
The school's support unit caters for students with mild and moderate intellectual disabilities as well as students with an autism diagnosis. The school is committed to providing opportunities for students from the support unit to integrate into mainstream classes.
Selection Criteria
Approval to teach special education, specifically students with mild and moderate intellectual disabilities (secondary), behaviour difficulties and students with autism (secondary) and/or experience in teaching students with mild or moderate intellectual disabilities (secondary) or behaviour difficulties or students with autism (secondary).
Well-developed communication skills with the ability to establish positive working relationships with students, staff, parents and external agencies to meet diverse student needs.
Demonstrated ability to design and deliver personalised learning programs which provide quality feedback on student learning outcomes and empathetically collaborate with teachers, support staff, parents/carers, and liaise with external agencies to meet diverse student needs.
Demonstrated ability to support student learning, engagement, wellbeing and manage behaviour using a trauma informed lens.
Demonstrated capacity and willingness to collaborate in a team setting to develop and implement faculty and school initiatives.
Conditions
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.
Special Notes
Applicants are to include details of their WWCC clearance number as part of this application.
This advertisement is for two classroom teacher positions.
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 all ages and genders, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse groups, the LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, refugees and people with disability. If we can make some adjustments to our recruitment/interview process to better enable you to shine, please contact the Diversity and Inclusion Team (******) or visit NSW Department of Education Diversity and Inclusion.
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.
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