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Overview

Chifley College Senior Campus is situated on the lands of the Darug people of the Gomerigal clan. We provide a calm, quality learning environment for senior students. We encourage students to achieve personal excellence, embrace diversity, and grow into responsible and successful members of the community.

We are a comprehensive, co-educational senior secondary school with 505 students including a Support Unit. The school caters for Stage 6 students with an extensive curriculum across the academic, creative, vocational, and sporting domains. The school is one of five campuses in Chifley College within the St Marys-Mount Druitt area. Our school community is culturally and linguistically diverse, 24% of students identify as having an Aboriginal background and 45% identify as having a Pasifika background.

Chifley College Senior Campus hosts a National Aboriginal Sporting Chance Academy (NASCA) for Aboriginal girls and a Clontarf Academy for Aboriginal boys. We have strong partnerships with Sydney University, Western Sydney University and Macquarie University, TAFE, cultural institutions, businesses, and local community groups. Our students represent the school across the state in music and dance ensembles, youth leadership forums and a range of sporting activities.

Chifley College Senior Campus maintains a philosophical and educational foundation aimed at building successful futures for students. All planning underpins capacity building initiatives in quality teaching, differentiation, literacy and numeracy, student engagement, and transition leading to positive pathways for students.

Position

Job Category: Teachers

Organization: Teaching Service

Location: Sydney Region

School Name: Chifley College Senior Campus

Advertisement Number: A900148680

Responsibilities

Specific duties are to teach Legal Studies and contribute to the school’s curriculum and student outcomes in line with Department expectations.

Qualifications and Selection Criteria

1. Approval to teach Legal Studies.
2. Highly developed interpersonal, communication and organisational skills with the capacity to foster positive and respectful relationships with colleagues, students, families and the wider community.
3. Demonstrated capacity to build a culture of high expectations and student engagement by implementing differentiated learning programs and evidenced-based teaching practices to meet the needs of students from diverse backgrounds including Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander students.
4. Demonstrated ability to collaborate with and contribute to a faculty and whole school.

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.

Remuneration and Tenure

Total Remuneration Package: up to $151,704.00. Base salary ranges from $87,550.00 to $133,846.00, plus leave loading and employer's superannuation contribution. Base salary rates above the minimum are available depending on experience. FTE 1.000; Closing Date: 15-Oct-2025, 5:00 AM.

Special Notes

Applicants seeking either permanent full time or permanent part time employment are encouraged to apply. 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. More 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 Department

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 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 the NSW Department of Education Diversity and Inclusion page. New merit selection guidelines for classroom teachers, executives and principals have been introduced to provide greater clarity to applicants and selection panels. The guidelines are located on the Merit selection webpage. To ensure that your application complies with the guideline page limits, 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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