About this job
Position Information

Barramurra Public School serves a rapidly growing multicultural community of 1240 students with 62% of our students having a language background other than English. 3% of our students identify as Aboriginal and our students come from a wide range of socio-economic backgrounds. Barramurra Public School has 4 support classes catering for students with a moderate intellectual disability and autism. The school encourages a holistic and inclusive approach, supported by strong student wellbeing programs.

Barramurra Public School has established strong relationships with the community and provides a range of extracurricular activities in sport, science, technology, and creative and performing arts, which enable all students the opportunity to excel through a range of experiences in an equitable and outstanding learning environment. Barramurra Public School has an emphasis on delivering targeted, differentiated, evidence-informed practices including explicit teaching, effective feedback and systematic data analysis underpinned by high expectations and ongoing high impact professional learning for all staff.

Specific Selection Criteria

Approval to teach students with learning and support needs (primary) and/or experience teaching students with learning and support needs (primary) in regular classes. Capacity to provide specialist assistance to students in regular classes with additional learning and support needs and their teachers.

Proven success in the delivery of data driven small-group and individual intervention programs through the creation and implementation of evidence based personalised learning and support plans.

Outstanding organisational, interpersonal and communication skills demonstrated capacity to build positive, collaborative relationships with staff, students, parents/ carers and other professionals.

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 people of all backgrounds, including but not limited to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, people of any age or gender, people from culturally and linguistically diverse groups and/or from the LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, refugees, people with disability, people with sensory differences, and neurodiverse people. If we can make some adjustments to our recruitment/interview process to better help you shine, please reach out to the contact person for this recruitment, details listed above. For more information, visit the NSW Department of Education’s Diversity, equity and inclusion webpage.

Merit selection application guidelines for classroom teachers, executives and principals provide clear advice for applicants and selection panels. The guidelines are available here.

To meet the page limits outlined in the guidelines, all application attachments must be submitted in PDF format. Please note that late applications will not be accepted.

If you are new or returning to the Department of Education and have relevant prior qualified experience, you can submit a Salary determination for classroom teachers application form to request a salary determination. Until the outcome of any such determination is confirmed, your salary offer will remain at Step 1 then be updated at a later date (typically a 1–2-week processing time post receipt of the form). For further details on this process, please see the Department’s policy here: Salary determination.

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