Teacher Special Education

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

Job Reference 0000B09A

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

Location York Rd, Kellyville 2155 NSW, Australia

Type Full-Time

Status Permanent

Contact Damian Knott

Phone: 02 88 24 59 55

About This Job

Position Information

Kellyville High School, situated on the traditional lands of the Dharug People in the Hills Shire of north-western Sydney, is a co-educational comprehensive school with 870 students (10% from non-English speaking backgrounds). The school has an Inclusive Education Faculty of 42 students, with 10 students identifying as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander.

A Middle and Senior School structure supports students and staff in developing a productive and inclusive learning environment. Middle School, comprising Years 7, 8, and 9, focuses on wellbeing, literacy, numeracy, school culture, and adapting to high school systems and expectations, as well as building partnerships with our local Primary Schools. The two key transition points are from Year 6 to Year 7 and from Year 9 to Year 10. Senior School students in Years 10, 11, and 12 have a focus on wellbeing, academic rigour, school-to-work or tertiary studies, citizenship, and building partnerships with external agencies. There are transition points in Years 10, 11 and 12 reflecting the goals of students.

Specific Selection Criteria

• Approval to teach and/or experience in teaching students with Autism, intellectual disabilities, students with challenging behaviours and/or mental health concerns.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work collaboratively, proactively and professionally with colleagues, parents and carers, SLSO staff, external support agencies and the wider community.
• Demonstrated ability to implement effective, flexible, and adaptive classroom management strategies that foster and maintain a safe, inclusive, and positive learning environment, supporting all students to engage and succeed by employing reasonable adjustments and quality teaching strategies.
• Demonstrated successful classroom management with a flexible and open approach, creating a positive learning environment that promotes student wellbeing, authentic relationships, while utilising data to plan for effective individualised support and learning programs.

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.

Notes

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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