Deputy Principal Inclusion

Job Title

Deputy Principal Inclusion & Support – Parkes High School

Location

Regional NSW

Closing Date

03-Dec-2025, 5:00:00 AM

Salary

Remuneration package valued at $197,241.00 (Base salary $174,034.00 plus leave loading and employer’s contribution to superannuation).

School: Parkes High School

Principal Network: Mitchell; Staffing Area: Orange; FTE: 1.000

Job Summary

The Deputy Principal Inclusion & Support is a strategic, non‑teaching leadership role dedicated to inclusion, focusing on leading improvement in the learning, wellbeing, and independence of students with disabilities.

Responsibilities

- Lead a school‑wide culture of inclusion, ensuring high expectations and improved outcomes for students with disability.

- Collaborate with the school executive team to enhance the capacity of teaching staff and improve student learning outcomes.

- Use data to lead initiatives that address strategic directions, improving student wellbeing outcomes.

- Demonstrate complex case‑management skills while working with families, community, and inter‑agency support to achieve positive student outcomes.

- Promote collaborative leadership that fosters trusting relationships and partnerships, enhancing school culture, student, staff, and community wellbeing.

Selection Criteria

- General: Successful teaching experience with the capacity to initiate improvement in teaching, learning, and classroom practice.

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

- General: Educational leadership skills to build capacity and manage performance of individuals and teams.

- General: Well‑developed communication and interpersonal skills with the capacity to build relationships and engage students, staff, and parents.

- General: Ability to plan and manage resources effectively and equitably to support teaching and learning.

- General: Knowledge of and commitment to the Department’s Aboriginal education policy.

- Specific: Highly visible and proactive leader with the capacity to work collaboratively with the school executive team, enhancing the overall capacity of teaching staff and improving student learning outcomes.

- Specific: Ability to lead initiatives and effectively use data to address the school’s strategic directions, including those that result in improved student wellbeing outcomes.

- Specific: Demonstrated complex case‑management skills, working with families and community, and accessing inter‑agency support to leverage positive student outcomes on a day‑to‑day basis.

- Specific: Demonstrated collaborative leadership skills that promote trusting relationships and partnerships to enhance school culture, student, staff, and community wellbeing.

Conditions

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 must commence the application process at the same time as you apply for this opportunity.

Special Notes

Applicants must include details of their WWCC clearance number as part of the application.

About the NSW Department of Education

The Department of Education is the largest provider of public education in Australia, responsible 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 adjustments are needed to the recruitment process, contact the Diversity and Inclusion Team (dandi@det.nsw.edu.au) or visit the NSW Department of Education Diversity and Inclusion page.

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