Head of Special Education Services

7 days ago


Logan City, Australia Teach Queensland Full time

(Image sourced from Beenleigh State High School)

**About the Role**:
As the Head of Special Education Services at Beenleigh State High School Special Education Program, you will:

- Promote an inclusive culture and practices within the school community to ensure equity and excellence for students with disability.
- Develop and support a high quality of teaching and adjustments for students with disability in accordance to related legislation and policies.

You will have responsibility for leading the following activities and delivery of the following key tasks:

- Manage and coordinate the delivery of high-quality advice and support provided by the Special Education Program and/or Early Childhood Development Program.
- Lead and manage the Special Education Program and/or Early Childhood Development Program to provide advice to classroom teachers for students with disability as needed.
- Provide high quality advice to the school leadership team, classroom teachers and other school staff to develop, plan and implement effective reasonable adjustments for students with disability.
- Coordinate and provide intensive targeted teaching for students requiring intervention.
- Provide, support and/or coordinate case management for students who require extensive or substantial adjustments.
- Support classroom teachers and other school staff to access departmental or other external specialist services,professional development, and supports as needed.
- Participate in school decision making processes as well as professional development to contribute to school goals, vision and planning.

Inclusion and Diversity
We all have a role in making our workplace one that embraces and values diverse backgrounds, perspectives and life experiences, creating a workplace where we all belong.Reasonable adjustments may be discussed with your manager, approved and documented to support and promote human rights and diversity across the workforce.
Implement and coordinate school-wide systems including data systems to monitor students with disability and record the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability.
Form and maintain partnerships with parents, other government agencies, and community groups to support students with disability.
Manage human, financial, facilities and curriculum resources to achieve goals.
For a full list of mandatory requirements please see the attached role description.

**Interested? To apply**:

- Attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (one of whom should be your current supervisor)
- Attach a maximum 2-pg response to the How you will be Assessed section of the attached role description.

Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department. Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.



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