Head Teacher English - Oberon High School
NSW Department of Education
New South Wales
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 31 May 2022
Job overview
Location
Regional NSWNumber of Positions
1Contact Name Craig Luccarda
Closing Date
01-Jun-2022Job Category
TCH OtherOrganisation
Teaching ServiceOberon High School serves the town and surrounding districts of semi-industrial rural Oberon. The small and friendly school has a total enrolment of 205 with 21 identifying as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, provides a broad curriculum in collaboration with its community, preparing students for both academic and vocational pathways.
The school encourages and rewards student achievement across a wide range of areas, as well as supporting student welfare through a variety of programs. The school's excellent facilities are extended by significant use of adjacent community facilities including sporting fields, an indoor tennis complex and a heated swimming pool.
The school has a proud record of students who aim for university study achieving entry to courses of their choice, however, we also value those who aspire to trade pathways or alternate post school employment and training aspirations. The school has a broad scope of programs in place to cater for a wide variety of students ensuring that inclusion leads to students maximising their potential and ultimately reaching their post school goals.
The school has great support from community with school programs supported by local business and industry whilst there is valuable sponsorship from groups who wish to assist individual students achieve to their best.
Oberon High School runs a compressed Stage 6 curriculum and has done so since 2015. This alternate system for HSC completion has been successful at our school and allows a far broader curriculum choice for students.
- Applicants must satisfy the teacher training and academic qualification requirements for this position. In addition to the general selection criteria,
- High level interpersonal skills and capacity to lead programs that nurture positive and productive relationships across the greater local community.
- Demonstrated capacity to lead a combined English/HSIE/Performing Arts faculty ensuring all Department of Education and NESA requirements are met through rigorous and systematic practices that ensure every member of the faculty understands their professional responsibilities and how to act on them appropriately.
- Demonstrated capacity to lead faculty analysis of data and evidence of learning, to support colleagues in delivering quality teaching with engaging and creative solutions that have a sustained impact on every student.
- Demonstrated capacity to be a dynamic member of the school’s executive, providing strategic leadership that will help create a climate of school improvement that supports the attainment of the school’s strategic directions.
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.
From 8 November 2021 all Department of Education employees undertaking relevant work, including any work conducted on a NSW school site, will be required to meet mandatory double vaccination requirements against COVID-19. The successful candidate for this position will be required to meet mandatory double vaccination requirements prior to the Department of Education finalising the appointment of the candidate and entry on duty. Further information on the Department’s COVID-19 response is available at https://education.nsw.gov.au/covid-19.
The Eligibility Requirements for Head Teacher Positions in NSW Government Schools are located here.
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 all ages and genders, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, the LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, refugees and people with disability. If we can make some adjustments to our recruitment/interview process to better enable you to shine, please contact the Diversity and Inclusion Team (dandi@det.nsw.edu.au) or visit NSW Department of Education Diversity and Inclusion
New merit selection application guidelines for classroom teachers, executives and principals have been introduced to provide greater clarity to applicants and selection panels. The guidelines are located here. To ensure that your application complies with the guideline page limits, your attachments must be in PDF format.
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- NSW Department of Education
- 105 Phillip Street, Parramatta
- New South Wales
- 2150
- Australia
About the NSW Department of Education
At the NSW Department of Education, we aim to be Australia's best education system and one of the finest in the world. As the largest provider of public education in Australia, we deliver high-quality educational services to two-thirds of the NSW student population, preparing young people for rewarding lives as engaged citizens in a complex and dynamic society.
With nearly 100,000 employees across the state, our school and corporate workforce help build Australia’s best education system by developing student centred policy, designing schools of the future and supporting children and young people in NSW public schools.
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With more than 2,200 schools throughout the state educating more than 780,000 students from Kindergarten to Year 12, there are opportunities to work in a diverse range of school settings – primary, secondary, selective, hospital, sporting, agricultural and schools for specific purposes.
Make a difference in your community
NSW public schools are at the heart of every local community with our students and staff representing a diverse range of cultural, linguistic and religious backgrounds. The NSW Department of Education strives to create learning and working environments that are inclusive and supportive of all.
We respect and value Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the First Peoples of Australia and are committed to increasing knowledge and understanding of Aboriginal histories, cultures and experiences.
Career enhancing opportunities
One of the great things about working with the department is accessing ongoing professional development as well as opportunities to enhance your career. With multiple scholarship, sponsorship and career enhancing programs available, the opportunities are endless with the NSW Department of Education.
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