Teacher Food Technology - Willyama High School

Willyama High School (enrolment 537 students, including 120 Aboriginal students) is a comprehensive high school located in Broken Hill in Far West NSW. Our school has established positive relationships and strong connections with our local community with a focus on evidence-based teaching and learning practices that inspire our students to excel through academic, sporting, extra-curricular and cultural endeavours. There is a strong focus on using technology in the classroom and improving literacy and numeracy throughout our school. Our school’s core values of respect, responsibility and cooperation are explicitly taught and regularly reinforced.  
Please visit our website for more information www.willyama-h.schools.nsw.edu.au. 

Approval to teach Food Technology. Approval to teach or preparedness to undertake VET teacher training in Hospitality (Commercial Cookery) providing the qualification entry benchmark is met. 

Demonstrated ability to implement evidence-based teaching practices to engage and develop students with a wide range of abilities with a focus on improving literacy. 

Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills with the capacity to build relationships and engage students, staff and parents. 

Demonstrated ability to effectively implement technology in the classroom, including modern and innovative practices, with a focus on improving teaching and learning. 

Demonstrated understanding of, and the capacity to cater for, the needs of Aboriginal students.

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 be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The successful candidate for this position will be required to confirm full vaccination status 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 successful applicant may be eligible to receive a one-off recruitment payment of $20,000. Conditions apply.

Willyama High School is a 6 point school and as such attracts additional incentives. Please refer to: https://www.det.nsw.edu.au/eAT/TchAllow?Command=Browse.

For information on living in Broken Hill, please go tohttp://www.brokenhillaustralia.com.au/ or

http://www.visitnsw.com/destinations/outback-nsw/broken-hill-area which will provide applicants with additional information on the town/area/council in which the school is located.

Applicants are to include details of their WWCC clearance number as part of this application.

To ensure that your application complies with the guideline page limits your attachments must be in PDF format.

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 in effect on positions advertised from Wednesday 10th June 2020. The guidelines are located at: https://education.nsw.gov.au/about-us/careers-at-education/roles-and-locations/roles-at-education/teaching/addressing-selection-criteria.html