Teacher Special Education

60 minutes ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia NSW Government Full time $90,000 - $120,000 per year
Position Information

Grafton High School is a large comprehensive secondary school of over 750 students, located on the traditional lands of the Bundjalung people on the North Coast of NSW. The school contains a support unit with 8 classes and is partially selective, with a selective class in each of Years 7 to 10. The school is the oldest public high school on the North Coast and has a long-standing reputation for academic, cultural and sporting achievement. 18% of students identify as having an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background. All students participate in a wide range of cultural recognition and learning experiences focusing on local Bundjalung culture, language and dance.

The school's permanent staffing entitlement in 2025 is 67.2 teaching staff and 18 non-teaching staff. The school employs a number of additional teaching and non-teaching staff from school base and equity funding; including a Business Manager, Transition Adviser and Head Teacher Administration. Our executive staff is stable. Our teachers are diverse in both skills and experience, with approximately 20% in their early career.

Selection Criteria

  1. Approval to teach special education and/or experience teaching students with mild intellectual disability (secondary) and/or autism (secondary).

  2. Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills with the capacity to maintain effective partnerships with students, parents, the community and colleagues to support student learning and engagement.

3.Demonstrated classroom management skills that support the learning, behavioural and wellbeing needs of a range of students.

Conditions

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.

Special Notes

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.

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