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English Teacher (Graduates welcome to apply) - Clairvaux MacKillop College, UPPER MT GRAVATT

English Teacher (Graduates welcome to apply) - Clairvaux MacKillop College, UPPER MT GRAVATT

Brisbane Catholic Education

Australia

  • Expired
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Apply by:
19 June 2022

Job overview

  • Graduates welcome to apply
  • Full-time, Continuing role
  • Commencing July (Term 3) 2022

With a focus on educating the whole person at the heart of Catholic Education, you will inspire and empower our student to flourish academically, personally, and spiritually, transforming young lives. You will belong to a unique school community where our Catholic values are the corner stone for stronger connections between our student, parent, and teaching communities.

About the role - As an effective member of our school community, you will:
  • Create a nurturing and ordered learning environment which is learner centred, supportive, cooperative and aligned with relevant curriculum policies, documents and practices
  • Collaborate with your peers to develop and implement quality curriculum programs and appropriate pedagogy
  • Proactively engage with professional renewal practices to enhance student outcomes
  • Work with the leadership team, teachers and other team members in contributing to the professional life of the school
  • Ensure that the teachings and values of the Catholic Church form a foundation for learning and teaching.

About you - To be successful in this role you will bring relevant qualifications and contemporary teaching experience in Secondary English as well as:
  • Strong literacy and numeracy practices plus a clear understanding of the Australian Curriculum
  • Effective communication and interpersonal skills
  • Proven organisational skills
  • Ability to work in partnership with colleagues, students, and parents/carers to achieve agreed outcomes
  • Engage students with innovative and creative practices
  • Ability to identify and cater for different learning styles
  • Demonstrated effective behaviour management strategies
  • Competent at integrating digital technology into a contemporary learning environment
  • Commitment to child safety.

Working at BCE our teachers are required to:
It’s our unique culture of collaboration that sets us apart and is the pivotal element that enables you to make your mark and have the highest possible impact on student learning.

To best demonstrate your suitability for this position please provide a cover letter (1 page max) with your CV in the application form.

A bit about us: With 146 schools and growing each year, joining our BCE community you’ll have room to move across a variety of teaching and education environments from Brisbane metropolitan area to beach to bush.

Clairvaux MacKillop College is a secondary co-educational College administered by the Archdiocese of Brisbane with an enrolment of 1400 students. The College mission is to work actively as an inclusive, Catholic, christian learning community. We strive for excellence in all things inspired by the charisms of our founders - St Mary of the Cross MacKillop and Blessed Edmund Rice.

Clairvaux MacKillop College is a great place to learn and grow. Generous hospitality and welcome are hallmarks of our thriving learning community. Ours is a friendly place built on a deep respect for each person – their innate goodness, their learning potential, their unique capacity to be good for the world.

We live the spirit of our college motto By Effort and Faith with Commitment, Compassion, Celebration. All members of our learning community are valued, respected and encouraged to be self-directed, life-long learners. We are all about great teaching, great learning, everyone, every day.

Visit our school website here



At BCE we are committed to child safety and wellbeing. This position involves working with children. The successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory employment screening for child related employment in accordance with legislation.

At BCE equity and inclusion are at the core of our Catholic values and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce. We encourage and welcome candidates to apply for this role.

Contact Person: Sharon Condon
Contact Telephone Number: 3347 9200
Contact Email: scondon@bne.catholic.edu.au
Closing Date: 19-Jun-2022

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About Brisbane Catholic Education

About Archdiocese of Brisbane

Brisbane Catholic Education is committed to high quality teaching and learning for more than 70,000 young people enrolled in our schools and colleges from Prep to Year 12.

Our community of schools within the Archdiocese of Brisbane is founded on Christ and is at the service of our students, families, society and the Church – teaching, challenging and transforming.​​​​​​

Our mission is to teach, challenge and transform through our service, support and leadership for Catholic education in the Archdiocese of Brisbane. 

Work in one of our BCE schools

Brisbane Catholic Education (BCE), is the second largest non-Government employer in Queensland, supporting some 72,000 students and 11,500 employees in 141 school communities and six office locations, all located in South East Queensland.  

Our employees work in a wide range of teaching and non-teaching roles that support Catholic traditions and contribute to developing socially just young people who embrace sustainability and make positive contributions to the modern world.

Through our Christian values we are at the service of our students, families, society and the Church.

We have a variety of opportunities available across our growing South East Queensland network​ of schools:

  • ​Teaching
  • Senior and Middle Leadership
  • Specialist positions
  • Non teaching support roles
  • Graduate teaching


With a vibrant working environment, we provide generous benefits for employees, highly value professional and career development, supporting our people to deliver excellence in their profession and excellent outcomes for our schools. 

Experience a genuine sense of unity and connectedness that is synonymous with Catholic Education.  Building and nurturing meaningful relationships and enjoying a strong sense of camaraderie across our school, student, parent and BCE Office communities. 

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