Deputy Principal

Job Description - Deputy Principal - James Busby High School (0000B1ML)

Deputy Principal - James Busby High School - 0000B1ML

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Location

Sydney Region

Advertisement Number A900147865

Number of Positions

1

Total Remuneration Package: Remuneration package valued at $197,241.00. This position attracts a base salary of $174,034.00, plus leave loading and employer's contribution to superannuation.

School Name James Busby High School

Principal Network Liverpool

Staffing Area Liverpool

FTE 1.000

Contact Phone number 0402298374

Contact School Admin - 99999999

Closing Date

19-Nov-2025, 5:00:00 AM

Job Category

TCH Other

Organisation

Teaching Service

Position Information

James Busby High School is a diverse and inclusive co-educational comprehensive high school located in south-west Sydney with an enrolment of 540. Our setting includes a large and dynamic Special Education Unit comprising of 10 classes, with 96 enrolled students. We celebrate our multi-cultural student body that includes 38 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, as well as 78% of students from a language background other than English. At James Busby HS we are committed to deliver outstanding leadership teaching and learning through our strong commitment to excellence and equity within Learning, Teaching and Leadership. We commit to practices that transform the learning lives of our students and to growth and attainment in literacy and numeracy and the Higher School Certificate by providing a curriculum that is rich, authentic and responsive to individual student needs. Underscoring our philosophy is our approach to trauma-informed practice and our core values that greatly enhance the wellbeing of our students and behaviour management. We continue to build the capacity of staff empowering them to maintain safe inclusive learning environments that deliver quality learning experiences enriching students' ability to connect, succeed, thrive and learn. We continually strive to create opportunities to grow the potential of our students and recognise their strengths and capacity across the academic, social/emotional, physical and creative domains. We deliberately support student potential through a significant number of curricular and extra-curricular offerings. Excellence underpins these programs, which remain a central focus for our school.

Selection Criteria

Specific Selection Criteria

In addition to the general selection criteria,

- Educational leadership experience that can significantly contribute to the effectiveness of the senior executive and executive team in proactively actioning and evaluating the SEP and department priorities to consistently strive for outstanding leadership, teaching and learning.

- Strong capacity to lead the development of data-informed, strategic approaches that successfully identify and implement practices that work best to build teacher capacity and improve literacy and numeracy outcomes for all students.

- Knowledge of and capacity to lead whole school, trauma-informed practices, HPGE initiatives and wellbeing programs that nurture a positive school culture that fosters inclusion and equity.

- Highly effective interpersonal skills that enable the effective management of complex issues to support students, staff and parents/carers.

General Selection Criteria

1. Successful teaching experience with capacity to initiate improvement in teaching, learning and classroom practice

2. Knowledge of curriculum, assessment and student welfare with the ability to lead and design quality, inclusive teaching and learning programs

3. Educational leadership skills to build the capacity and manage the performance of individuals and teams

4. Well developed communication and interpersonal skills with the capacity to build relationships and engage students, staff and parents

5. Ability to plan and manage resources effectively and equitably to support teaching and learning

6. Knowledge of and commitment to the Department's Aboriginal education policy

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.

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.

We pay respect to the Traditional Custodians and First Peoples of NSW, and acknowledge their continued connection to their country and culture.

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