Teacher of The Deaf

**Posted**: 16/06/2025
**Closing Date**: 31/07/2025

**Job Type**: Casual
**Location**: Yeerongpilly
**Job Category**: Therapy Services (Allied Health)
**Job Description**:
**Location**: Brisbane - Yeerongpilly and Sandgate
**Pay**: $66.83 p/hour + salary packaging + 11.5% super
Fulfilling Role - Work closely with children, adults, and their families to ensure they have access to the best learning opportunities.
Supportive and inclusive environment working for a leading NFP organisation
Fantastic salary packaging opportunities (increased take home pay)
Opportunity to learn and use Auslan in a bilingual workforce
**About the role**:
The Teacher of the Deaf is responsible for the provision of education to Deaf and Hard of Hearing adults, children, and their families as part of Healthy Hearing or NDIS funding. The Teacher of the Deaf will work in a variety of settings, which may include Deaf Connect offices, private homes, community settings such as childcare centres, kindergartens, and schools; and via telepractice.
**Main responsibilities of the role include**:
Develop and implement strategies for supporting communication, including listening, speech, language and play
Contribute to the establishment and maintenance of effective parent professional partnerships to optimise adult, child, and family outcomes
Provide Auslan tutoring in a structured and accessible style
Provide wide-ranging advice and information on hearing aid technology
Contribute to the understanding of Deaf culture
Recommend age-appropriate resources to support language and communication development, including Auslan resources
Liaise with internal and external service providers to enable coordinated service provision to adults, children, and their families
Contribute to the establishment and maintenance of effective parent professional partnerships to optimise adult, child, and family outcomes
**About you**:
Fluency in Auslan
Knowledge of typical and atypical childhood development and how these impacts on young children with a disability or development delay; knowledge of how environmental factors influence interventions on a child with a disability or developmental delay; knowledge of hearing technology; knowledge of Deaf community.
Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills
Demonstrated ability to work both independently and within a multidisciplinary team
Bachelor’s degree in Education/Teaching and formal additional qualification as Teacher of the Deaf
Member of National Association of Australian Teachers of the Deaf (NAATD).
Current NDIS Worker Clearance
Current driver’s license
You should also let us know if you have these other great skills:
Ability to manage and prioritise a case load, meeting timelines in a responsive manner by adjusting priorities according to changing needs and urgent matters.
**About Us**:
Deaf Connect is the largest, whole-of-life service provider and social impact organisation for Deaf, deafblind and hard of hearing Australians. We stand with the Deaf community to build capacity and influence social change while paying respect to history, culture and language.
Our organisational values of Heart, Courage, and Discovery stand with the Deaf community to build capacity and influence social change while paying respect to history, culture, and language.
**We offer an attractive benefits program including**:
Salary packaging, enabling you to make huge savings on tax and maximise your pay
Flexibility regarding working arrangements
Discount membership to gyms and facilities throughout Australia
Free annual flu vaccinations
Free comprehensive online learning portal
Free financial wellness support through our default super fund