Temporary Part-Time Primary Teacher

About the Opportunity

If you are currently employed by Catholic Schools Parramatta Diocese, please submit your application via our internal Careers Site on EmployeeConnect. We are excited to support you in the next step of your career.

St Canice's is proud to be part of Catholic Schools Parramatta Diocese's system of 80 Catholic primary and secondary schools operating across Western Sydney and the Blue Mountains providing more than 46,000 students with a high-quality, low fee Catholic education.

Our school is a welcoming, safe and innovative learning community for local students and their families

St Canice's Primary is looking for a skilled and passionate Primary Teacher to be part of our school community and enrich the lives of our students.

• This is a temporary part-time position, commencing Term 1, 2026.

Teachers within the Diocese are responsible to the Principal and share in the learning and teaching of subject matters to students of the school community. Teachers are responsible for delivering high quality contemporary learning and teaching for the community they serve which is embedded in the Catholic world view. It is a collaborative ministry of witness and service and part of the evangelising mission of the Church

Key Responsibilities

The Primary Teacher will fit the following criteria:

• Knowledge on how to structure lessons to meet the physical, social and intellectual development and characteristics of students. Strong teachers have extensive knowledge of the content and sequence of Key Learning Areas - including Religious Education.
• Understand the fundamental concepts, structure and enquiry processes relevant to programs they develop and teach. They understand what constitutes effective, developmentally appropriate strategies in their learning and teaching programs and use this knowledge to make the content meaningful to students.
• Able to create and maintain safe, inclusive and challenging learning environments and implement fair and equitable behaviour management plans. Strong teachers will evaluate all aspects of their teaching practice to ensure they are meeting the learning needs of their students. interpret and use student assessment data to diagnose barriers to learning and to challenge students to improve their performance.
• They operate effectively at all stages of the teaching and learning cycle, including planning for learning and assessment, developing learning programs, teaching, assessing, providing feedback on student learning and reporting to parents/carers.
• They value opportunities to engage with their school communities within and beyond the classroom to enrich the educational context for students and work to promote the links between school, home and community in the social and intellectual development of their students.

Qualifications

• Tertiary Qualification in Education
• Statement of Service
• Working with Children Check

The Benefits

There are so many great things that St Canice's Primary offers As a valued St Canice's employee, you can benefit from up to 25% off school fees for your children enrolled in our schools. But that's not all. We offer:

• Competitive remuneration
• Wellbeing initiatives and resources
• Cultural leave for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander employees
• State-of-the-art facilities

Child Safeguarding Statement

This position involves working with children. The appointment of successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory employment screening for child-related employment, including holding a cleared NSW Working with Children Check (WWCC) and compliance with CSPDs Safeguarding Procedures and Code of Conduct When Working With Children and Students. For more information regarding WWCCs, click here.

Diversity Statement

CSPD strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, as well as people from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds.