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Teacher Learning and Support - Kingswood High School

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Permanent full-time job at Kingswood High School (Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia) recruited via NSW Department of Education (Sydney NSW, Australia)

Job Reference 0000B0NT

Closing date September 17, 2025, 2 a.m. (AEST)

Location Bringelly Rd, Kingswood 2747 NSW, Australia

Type Full-Time

Status Permanent

Contact Simone McCullen

02 4736 1202

About This Job

Kingswood High School is a comprehensive coeducational high school established in 1969 and located in the Penrith Valley area. The school is comprised of 1032 students, including 15% of students from an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and 29% of students who have a language background other than English. The school also includes a Special Education Unit that supports up to 60 students through the delivery of inclusive teaching and learning activities personalised to support student growth and development. The school occupies spacious grounds with specialised facilities, including a state-of-the-art Trade Training Centre, Multipurpose Sports Centre and Auditorium, student managed cafe, after school Homework Club, fully equipped gym, international quality sporting field, a diverse Primary Industry Farm and the Kingswood Recording Studio.

The school is committed to developing socially responsible, self-disciplined, motivated, life-long learners in a safe, supportive and inclusive learning environment. Fully qualified staff collaborate and share quality teaching practices to continuously develop their curriculum and pedagogical expertise ensuring students are challenged to show sustained growth in learning outcomes. The school offers a well-rounded, holistic education for all students through nurturing and catering for their academic, social and emotional needs. Strong wellbeing platforms and research driven innovation underpin whole school initiatives to support literacy and numeracy progression in partnership with improved engagement, attendance and attainment for our students. We value strong community involvement to complement the existing partnerships across the Kingswood Learning Community to maximise learning and support successful educational pathways for all. The school enjoys the support of its culturally and linguistically diverse community and continue to foster strong partnerships with universities, cultural institutions, businesses and community groups. These partnerships enrich the schools ambition and aspirational vision to drive success for all stakeholders.

Specific Selection Criteria

• Approval to teach students with learning and support needs (secondary) and/or experience teaching students with learning and support needs (secondary) in regular classes
• Capacity to provide specialist assistance to students in regular classes with additional learning and support needs and their teachers
• Highly developed interpersonal skills with a focus on teamwork, effective communication and building positive relationships with students, colleagues, parents, external agencies, and the wider school community.
• Demonstrated capacity to provide specialist support for teachers to create and implement differentiated teaching programs for a diverse range of students, including competency in assisting with the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data (NCCD).
• Demonstrated capacity in planning, implementing and monitoring individualised education plans (IEPs) to improve learning outcomes for students with additional needs. This includes using data to adjust programs to meet individual needs.

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 seeking either permanent full time or permanent part time employment are encouraged to apply for this position. If the recommended applicant is seeking permanent part time employment (FTE from 0.1 to 0.9 inclusive), they will be offered an appointment at their desired FTE. Applicants on the eligibility list will be offered the remaining FTE but are not obliged to accept. Further information can be found on the merit selection webpage. 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 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 (dandi@det.nsw.edu.au) 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.

Seniority level

• Entry level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Education and Training

Industries

• Book and Periodical Publishing

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