▷ (Urgent) Curriculum Coordinator/Teacher

The BUSY School is part of The BUSY Group, a not-for-profit organisation presenting over 45 years as a community partner providing employment services, vocational education and training, apprenticeships, mentoring, NDIS, disability employment support, and allied health services.

The BUSY School is an independent Special Assistance School with 9 campuses across Cairns, Brisbane, and Gold Coast/Coolangatta, providing an alternative program for Year 11 and 12 students who are disengaged or at risk of disengaging from education.

Each campus provides a supportive and safe learning environment for young people by providing them with an education program that includes vocational education and training (VET), work experience and opportunities for school-based apprenticeships and traineeships. Our team support the students to gain employability and transferability skills to increases their sense of wellbeing, resilience, belonging, academic achievement, career exploration and employment outcomes.

Our teams’ focus is centred at re-engaging our students to learn, remain eligible for a Queensland Certificate of Education (QCE) and gain employment or further training outcomes upon student’s graduation from Year 12.

Job Description

About the position...

Based at our School Campus in Ipswich, you will be re-engaging students and teaching within the areas of Year 11 or 12. In the role as Curriculum Coordinator, you will be leading the teaching team to implement the curriculum plan across Essential English, Essential Mathematics and Social and Community Studies. The successful applicant will have demonstrated leadership experience in leading educational teaching teams with demonstrated successful outcomes. This specifically includes all aspects of planning, creating, and delivering resources with the teaching team as well as leading them with effective pedagogies to re-engage our students.

The Curriculum Coordinator will be responsible for engaging with the QCAA and will have demonstrated experience working with the quality assurance processes of endorsement, confirmation and have a working knowledge of other applications with the QCAA portal with the intent of monitoring student progress and accurate subject enrolments.

This role is permanent full time role. 0.2 Timetabled teaching, the remaining time to be used leading the teaching team to re-engage students back into senior schooling

Benefits of becoming a BUSY School teacher?

- Small class sizes that allow teachers to create genuine working relationships with each student.

- 4 days of classroom learning per week allows teachers to master the preparation and delivery of lessons.

- 1 day of non-student classroom learning that provides time for preparation, parent communication, professional learning and/or marking to be completed.

- No requirement to participate in co-curricular activities outside of school hours.

- Professional development opportunities throughout the year.

- Career leadership advancement possibilities within the BUSY School network.

- Opportunities to relocate within the BUSY School campus locations, which are growing every year

- The reward of supporting our BUSY students to realise their dreams of vocational work placement, vocational qualifications, a traineeship, or on to post-school study.

- Become part of The BUSY Group, accessing employee benefits, wellbeing programs, and the chance to work across the BUSY group in various roles.

- Competitive, above award salary +$4,999 Curriculum Allowance

- Paid Parental Leave program

- 13 weeks long service leave

- 12.5% superannuation

- NFP Salary Packaging (up to $15,900 per year) PLUS meal and entertainment card

- Training and Professional development commitment

- Career progression and internal transfer opportunities

- Employee Assistance Program

- Paid Parental Leave, Retail Discounts, and access to Fitness Passport

Desired Skills and Experience

About you...

- Experience in curriculum planning and implementation of the Queensland senior Applied and Applied Essential syllabuses is highly desirable

- Ability to lead teams in curriculum and assessment processes within the Senior School setting

- A relevant teaching qualification and hold full registration or current provisional registration with eligibility for full registration as a Teacher in Queensland

Next steps...

This role will actively commence recruitment from the date of advertisement. The closing date of this ad is dependent on the appointment of the role.

The BUSY Group is an organisation that prioritises the safeguarding of children and all vulnerable people by actively adopting strategies that embed a culture of zero tolerance for abuse of any kind. The appointment of successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory employment screening including criminal history and relevant working with children checks.

The BUSY Group is committed to achieving a diverse workforce and strongly encourages applications from First Nations People, people from culturally diverse backgrounds and people with disabilities.

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