Head of Special Education Services
2 days ago
About the Department of Education
The Department of Education is dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce that reflects the community and schools we support by treating everyone with respect and dignity. This starts with recruitment and selection. The methods of assessing suitability in the recruitment process may vary. This includes making reasonable adjustments to support applicants at all stages of the process and employee lifecycle.
About Picnic Creek State School
The staff of Picnic Creek are highly motivated professionals with a warm and caring approach, they are driven to deliver fun, engaging and effective learning experiences for all students. Our commitment is to provide a high quality program that is literature-rich, skills-oriented and built on pedagogies that are age appropriate for each year of schooling.
At Picnic Creek, we strongly believe that family is a vital factor in education, that it is the relationships with parents, carers and the wider school community that will ensure success for each student. It is our intent to communicate often in order to keep students and families informed and engaged in our journey. We hope you will take every opportunity to share your ideas and feedback with us to ensure we are working as a team - all with the same goal - to have 'every student realising their potential'.
About the Role
As the Head of Special Education Services at Picnic Creek State School, you will:
Promote an inclusive culture and practices within the school community to ensure equity and excellence for students with disability.
Develop and support a high quality of teaching and adjustments for students with disability in accordance to related legislation and policies.
You will lead to achieve improved learning, engagement and wellbeing outcomes, deliver quality professional development for staff, connect with external providers, coordinate and provide intensive and targeted teaching for students requiring intervention and plan and implement effective reasonable adjustments for students with disability.
You will implement and coordinate school-wide systems including data systems to monitor students with disability and record the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability.
This role will include a teaching role and lead the Inclusion Support Team.
This position is line managed by our principal and is a member of the Leadership Team.
Please refer to the attached role description for any mandatory requirements for this position.
How to Apply
Please attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant previous work history); and
A 2-pg response to the How you will be Assessed section of the attached role description.
We welcome all applicants to share any support needed to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive.
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.
When working in regulated employment an employee must have a current Working with Children Clearance (blue card) issued by Blue Card Services.
Salary rate shown is reflective of full-time (1.0 FTE).
The Department of Education is a family inclusive workplace. Click here to find out more about our Inclusion and Diversity strategies.
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