22 Jul
Catholic Diocese of Parramatta
Seven Hills
At any given time, we may have a variety of primary, secondary and specialist teaching roles available across our 80 schools as well as non-teaching positions in schools and our central office that support the delivery of innovative learning and teaching to around 43,500 students.
Our aim is to ensure our schools are the first choice for families, students and staff.
**Primary K-6 Teacher (temporary)**:
**Job no**: 507262
**Work type**: temporary full-time
**Location**: Our Lady of Lourdes Primary School - Seven Hills
**Categories**: Teaching
- Join the fastest growing diocese in Australia
- Create flexible, engaging and successful learning environments
- Leave cover; temporary full-time until the end of the 2024 school year
Our Lady of Lourdes is a Catholic Primary school offering a comprehensive and innovative learning program for boys and girls from Kindergarten to Year 6. Our mission is to provide our children with a strong spiritual and educational foundation on which to develop and build their lives.
**About the opportunity**:
We have a fantastic opportunity for a passionate Primary K-6 teacher to work on a temporary full-time basis until the end of the school year. We are currently seeking a dynamic and energetic teacher with the relevant NESA accreditation.
This is a fantastic opportunity to create engaging and creative learning environments in a supportive and fulfilling community. More specifically you will:
- Have 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.
Please respond to the above selection criteria in your cover letter.
**About you**:
To be successful in this highly rewarding role, you will demonstrate alignment to the core purpose and values of Our Lady of Lourdes along with:
- Compliance with NSW Child Protection Legislation - Working with Children Check clearance
- Tertiary Qualification in Education
- Eligibility according to the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) - conditionally accredited teachers and new graduates are welcome to apply
- Demonstrated knowledge or experience on student wellbeing focused programs and/or initiatives
- Sound knowledge of and commitment to our Catholic faith and mission in Catholic education.
**Benefits**
There are so many great things that CSPD has to offer! As a valued CSPD employee, you can benefit from up to 25% off school fees for your children enrolled in our schools. This discount can also be claimed by staff members who are grandparents, step-parents, carers, or guardians.
But that's not all. We offer:
- Competitive remuneration
- Salary packaging
- Wellbeing initiatives and resources
- Flexible work arrangements for eligible employees
- Extensive growth and development opportunities
- Cultural leave for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander employees
- State-of-the-art facilities
**Interested?**
Applicants wishing to work in any of the schools within the Diocese, either as a casual, temporary or full time employee, must be classified with the CSPD. If you are not already classified, you will need to complete the online registration for teachers process found on the CSPD website.
**Advertised**: 14 Oct 2024 15:10 AUS Eastern Daylight Time
**Applications close**: 19 Oct 2024 15:10 AUS Eastern Daylight Time
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