Head Of Special Services

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 Pittsworth State High School
Pittsworth State High School is a rural secondary school located in Pittsworth, about 30 minutes west of Toowoomba. We currently cater for just under 500 students and offer a broad range of curriculum options.
Condamine, Beauaraba and Yandilla are our school houses and these form the basis for interhouse sporting, academic and cultural competitions. Lunchtime events and activities are scheduled at various points throughout the year.
We offer leadership opportunities to students including the role of School Captains, Vice Captains, House Leaders and Student Representative Council along with Junior Secondary leadership positions.
About the Role
You will have responsibility for leading the following activities and delivery of the following key tasks:

- Manage and coordinate the delivery of high-quality advice and support provided by the Special EducationProgram.
- Lead and manage the Special Education Program to provideadvice to classroom teachers for students with disability as needed.
- Provide high quality advice to the school leadership team, classroom teachers and other school staff to develop,plan and implement effective reasonable adjustments for students with disability.
- Coordinate and provide intensive targeted teaching for students requiring intervention.
- Provide, support and/or coordinate case management for students who require extensive or substantialadjustments.
- Support classroom teachers and other school staff to access departmental or other external specialist services,professional development, and supports as needed.
- Participate in school decision making processes as well as professional development to contribute to schoolgoals, vision and planning.
- Implement and coordinate school-wide systems including data systems to monitor students with disability andrecord the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability.
- Form and maintain partnerships with parents, other government agencies, and community groups to supportstudents with disability.
- Manage human, financial, facilities and curriculum resources to achieve goals.

Please refer to the attached role description for any mandatory requirements for this position.
**Interested? To Apply**:

- Attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant work history)
- Attach a 2-page written statement in response to 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).
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