School Learning Support Officer, Acip

**Position Information**:
The NSW Department of Education provides, funds and regulates education services for NSW students from early childhood to secondary school, delivering world-class education through its public schools and providing funding support to non-government schools. We employ, develop and support teachers, leaders and other staff to deliver the best outcomes for students and to advance the wellbeing of Aboriginal people.

**About the Role**

School Learning Support Officers provides support for students with identified diverse learning needs including disability in classrooms and other learning environments under the direction and supervision of a teacher to support the achievement of educational outcomes. This support includes student welfare, health and wellbeing activities as required. In addition School Learning Support Officers may provide specific support for students in the following streams or settings: pre-school, vision support, hearing support, and bilingual. Student Learning Support Officers working in these streams/settings have specific additional duties, in addition to the general duties for School Learning Support Officers that are required to be performed.

**Essential Requirements**
- Working with Children Check Clearance
- Completion of mandatory training required by the Department of Education and a willingness to undertake first aid training relevant to the School Learning Support Officer role.
- Administration of Medications - training to be provided based on student needs.

**Selection Criteria**:

- Demonstrated ability to work effectively as part of a team.
- Ability to work with students with emotional, physical or intellectual disabilities.
- Awareness of the needs of students with emotional, physical or intellectual disabilities.
- Effective communication skills.

**Special Notes**:
**About the NSW Department of Education**

**Additional School Information (Optional)**
**School context**:
St Andrews Public School is located in Campbelltown, in South West Sydney and has a Family Occupation and Education Index of 95. The school has an enrolment of 792 students which includes 8% Aboriginal students, 39% from English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EALD), an Opportunity Class (OC) and seven support classes including 2 - IO, 1 - IO/AU, 2 - MC, 1 - IM and 1 - AU.

The school's vision statement, 'Children, First and Foremost' is clearly visible across our setting and is at the heart of all decision making. The school has excellent resources to cater for students and their individual learning needs and provides a variety of extra curricular activities such as a dance group, band, table tennis, debating, Tournament of Minds and many additional opportunities. Students have access to a beautiful and stimulating sensory garden and a Structured Play Area (SPA) has been designed to support our students who require additional support on the playground.

The school has a Student Prefect Leadership Team, Student Representative Council (SRC) and a Junior Aboriginal Education Consultative Group (AECG) which meet on a weekly basis and are active in the future direction of the school.

The Situational Analysis highlighted the need to have a clear focus on maximising student learning outcomes in Literacy and Numeracy, develop a professional learning community prioritising student growth by establishing a learning culture of high expectations and for the school community to take a collective responsibility for student learning, growth and success.

The school has created collaborative systems to plan, implement, monitor and evaluate processes and practices to ensure high levels of accountability. These processes provide feedback to consistently refine teaching practices to improve student outcomes.

**How to Apply**

If there are targeted questions, you must respond to these (maximum 300 words) and include in your covering letter.

**Targeted Question 1**
Desribe how you have demonstrated working collaboratively with teachers to support the educational outcomes of students with diverse learning needs.