Teacher Aide

**About the School**:
Tullawong has a history of providing an excellent education in a family friendly, supportive environment where all learners are valued and respected. We offer our learners a wide range of curricular and extra
- curricular opportunities.
Our school name comes from an Aboriginal word meaning 'Mountain Magpie'. Our logo depicts the Glasshouse Mountains, a local geographical feature, with a Mountain Magpie in the foreground. While the school name and logo draws from our past, our school motto 'We are our Future' is forward-looking and seeks to inspire our young learners with a real sense of purpose.

**About the Role**:
As the Teacher Aide (Identified) you will have responsibility for the following:

- Assisting teachers and students with sporting activities and with school excursions.
- Communicating effectively and displaying high level of interpersonal skills to function as an effective team member.
- Development of activities which promote productive partnerships between individual and group members of the community, under the relevant teacher or other staff member responsible for the indigenous portfolio.
- Maintaining anecdotal records on students for use in reviewing student's development.
- Displaying confidentiality, tact, reliability and sensitivity to students and their families.
- Assisting in the supervision of education activities, under the direction of a teacher (for example, a bush tucker garden).
- Assisting teaching staff with playground/bus supervision.
- Contributing to the welfare, health and safety of students including the delivery of first aid. Where the teacher aide is required to administer first aid, the teacher aide would be required to be formally trained in the administration of first aid, and keep such qualifications current. All costs associated with obtaining and maintaining qualifications would be met from school funds.
- Assisting students to find reference materials.
- Literacy and Numeracy duties that may include support for teachers in providing learning materials for students at risk, working with small groups as well as individual students and use of computers when working with students.
- Working with teachers and the community to promote and develop an understanding of the Australian Curriculum's Cross-curriculum priority - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures priority provides opportunities for all students to deepen their knowledge of Australia by engaging with the world's oldest continuous living cultures.

**Mandatory Requirements**:

- When working in regulated employment an employee must have a current Working with Children Clearance (blue card) issued by Blue Card Services.
- For this position, it is a genuine occupational requirement that it be filled by an Aboriginal person or a Torres Strait Islander person as set out in Section 7 of the Anti Discrimination Act 1991 for the purposes contained in Section 25 of that Act.

**How to Apply**:

- Attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant work history).
- Attach a 2-page 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.
Salary rate shown is reflective of full-time (1.0 FTE)This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.