About this job
Position Information

Nowra East Public School (NEPS) is a Connected Communities school located on the South Coast of Current South Wales. We collaborate closely with our community to provide teaching and learning opportunities within a nurturing and inclusive environment. Our diverse student population of approximately 480 includes 53% Aboriginal students. We are committed to supporting students’ ongoing growth in cultural identity, wellbeing, literacy, and numeracy. NEPS comprises seventeen regular classes, seven support classes, and a NSW Department of Education preschool, which received an ‘Exceeding’ rating from ACECQA in 2025. We work in partnership with a School Reference Group, Senior Leader Community Engagement, three Aboriginal Educational Officers, the Aboriginal community, and the Nowra Local Aboriginal Education Consultative Group to promote cultural understanding and connection to Country. Our school focuses on excellence in education with a strong emphasis on literacy and numeracy. All staff engage in continuous professional learning informed by current evidence-based pedagogy. Students, families, and staff collaboratively develop personalised learning pathways, fostering shared ownership of student goals. As a school that values restorative practices and student voices, NEPS upholds the values of being safe, respectful, and responsible learners. Our commitment to quality education and authentic care aims to ensure that students are supported to thrive academically, socially, and culturally.

Connected Communities is a strategy to drive improved educational outcomes for Aboriginal children and young people.



The strategy positions schools as community hubs that broaden the influence of the community and school leadership in the delivery of key services that support children and young people from birth through school into further training, study and employment.

Specific Selection Criteria

1. Approval to teach Special Education and/or experience teaching students with autism, mild and moderate intellectual disabilities, mental health needs, trauma and complex challenging behaviours.
2. Demonstrated ability to design and deliver differentiated, data-informed programs that use explicit teaching, evidence-based practice and high expectations to improve academic, social and behavioural outcomes.
3. High-level communication and interpersonal skills, with the proven ability to work collaboratively with colleagues, parents, carers, school learning and support officers, external agencies and providers and the wider community.
4. Demonstrated commitment to Aboriginal education and to working in genuine partnership with families, communities, and students to support improved educational and wellbeing outcomes.

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 professional 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.

📌 Teacher Special Education - Nowra East Public School
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