Job Description - Teacher - Human Society and its Setting - Doonside Technology High School *****BES5)
Teacher - Human Society and its Environment - Doonside Technology High School - ****BES5
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Location
Sydney Region
Advertisement Number A*********
Number of Positions
1
Total Remuneration Package: Remuneration package valued at up to $160,******.
Base salary ranges from $92,****** to $141,******, plus leave loading and employer's contribution to superannuation.
Base salary rates above the minimum are available depending on experience.
School Name Doonside Technology High School
Staffing Area Mount Druitt
FTE *****
Contact Phone number *********
Contact School Admin - ********
Closing Date
18-Nov-****, 5:00:00 AM
Job Category
Teachers
Organisation
Teaching Service
Position Information
Doonside Technology High School is a co-educational Years 7–12 inclusive high school with a strong focus on explicit teaching strategies and comprehensive wellbeing structures.
In ****, the school has 715 students.
The student population is highly diverse: 18% identify as Aboriginal, and 29% come from a background where English is an additional language or dialect.
The Support Unit provides for 74 students with mild, moderate and severe intellectual disabilities.
The school proudly celebrates this diversity and ensures all students are actively included in every aspect of school life.
The school's Index of Community Socio-Educational Advantage (ICSEA) is 924, with a FOEI value of 147.
Staffing in **** includes 60 full-time teaching staff and 16 non-teaching staff, alongside additional roles funded through equity initiatives, such as a Head Teacher Wellbeing, a Pacific Islander Community Liaison Officer,



additional Student Support Officers and extra support staff.
Wellbeing and student learning support remain central to the school's strategic directions.
Programs such as the Berry Street Education Model, Life Education, RoSA@Work, the Learning Support Hub, and Wellbeing Hub have been recognised with Secretary and Minister's Awards, reflecting their positive impact on student engagement, wellbeing and retention.
The school has recently been acknowledged for our work in Explicit Teaching through the CESE Illustration of Practice.
Additionally, DTHS has been recognised as the most improved public school over the past decade, with the highest growth in average HSC results in NSW.
In ****, Doonside Technology High School completed External Validation, where it was deemed to be excelling in 13 of the 14 elements of the School Excellence Framework.
This achievement reflects the school's commitment to delivering individualised, high-quality teaching and learning, underpinned by genuine relationships and a strong sense of belonging.
Doonside Technology High School is dedicated to continual improvement, ensuring that every teacher and every student grows and achieves every year.
Specific Selection Criteria
Approval to teach History and Geography (Years 7–10), and Geography (Years *****).




Demonstrated capacity to develop and deliver high-quality teaching and learning programs that cater for the needs of a diverse range of learners.
Well-developed interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build positive relationships with students, staff, parents and the wider community.
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 .
We pay respect to the Traditional Custodians and First Peoples of NSW, and acknowledge theircontinued connection to their country and culture.
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