About the Role

School Learning Support Officers (Student Health Support) provide 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.

Holroyd School is a School for Specific Purpose (SSP) located in Merrylands, NSW. The student cohort includes 200 students from Kindergarten through Year 12, all of whom present at school with unique personalities, strengths, and complex, diverse and energetic needs, the functional impact of a moderate or severe intellectual disability, co-occurring disabilities and health conditions. The school's program focus on student empowerment, the essential skills for learning, wellbeing and independence, learning is supported by explicit teaching practices, and diverse experiences and opportunities for students as they learn and grow. Effective consultation with students, families and, student support networks, strengthen personalised learning and support provision for students at school. The school community works and learns together to continuously improve on a journey toward equity and excellence, so every student succeeds and excels in their personal journey of independence, wellbeing and learning.

Essential Requirements





- Working with Children Check Clearance
- Completion of mandatory training required by the Department of Education to undertake first aid, administration of medications and health care procedures training.

- 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.

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.

For more information, visit the NSW Department of Education’s Diversity, equity and inclusion webpage.

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📌 Multiple Positions - School Learning Support Officer - Student Health Support - Full Time - Ongoing - Holroyd School (Sydney)
🏢 NSW Department of Education
📍 Sydney