Assistant Principal Inclusion and Support

Marayong Public School is situated in Western Sydney. The school has a student population of approximately 621 students, including seven support classes (made up of students with autism, mild and moderate intellectual disabilities) and a preschool that caters for 80 students. Our school demographics include 67% of students from Non-English-Speaking Backgrounds and 45 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. Our school reflects a diversity of socioeconomic circumstances.

The Assistant Principal Inclusion and Support is a strategic, full time (face to face teaching 0.8 FTE), leadership role dedicated to inclusion, with a focus on facilitating improvement in the learning, wellbeing and independence of students with disabilities.

The Assistant Principal Inclusion and Support shares the broader educational imperatives of the Assistant Principal position but with the explicit focus of driving improved outcomes for students with disability, providing a leadership role in mentoring staff across the school to support students with disability and building collaborative relationships with families of students with disability.

The roles are located in mainstream primary schools with seven or more support classes.

In addition to the general selection criteria,

1. Demonstrated ability to promote research based impactful professional learning that ensures the continual development and growth of teacher expertise in learning and wellbeing growth for students with disability through evidence informed practice and high expectations.

2. Proven ability to strengthen a dynamic and responsive school-wide approach to student inclusion, wellbeing, attendance and behaviour management processes enabling every student to connect, succeed, and thrive.

1. Successful teaching experience with capacity to initiate improvement in teaching, learning and classroom practice
2. Knowledge of curriculum, assessment and student welfare with the ability to lead and design quality, inclusive teaching and learning programs
3. Educational leadership skills to build the capacity and manage the performance of individuals and teams
4. Well developed communication and interpersonal skills with the capacity to build relationships and engage students, staff and parents
5. Ability to plan and manage resources effectively and equitably to support teaching and learning
6. Knowledge of and commitment to the Department's Aboriginal education policy

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.

Applicants are to include details of their WWCC clearance number as part of this application.

About the NSW Department of Education

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 some adjustments to our recruitment/interview process to better enable you to shine, please contact the Diversity and Inclusion Team ) or visit NSW Department of Education Diversity and Inclusion

New merit selection application guidelines for classroom teachers, executives and principals have been introduced to provide greater clarity to applicants and selection panels. The guidelines are located here. To ensure that your application complies with the guideline page limits, your attachments must be in PDF format.