Teacher Learning and Support - Quakers Hill East Public School

Quakers Hill East Public School is located in North Western Sydney and has a student enrolment of 680 students from kindergarten to year 6. The school culture is supportive, nurturing and inclusive with students, staff, parents and wider community working together to promote school excellence. The school infrastructure includes a dance and drama studio, technology hub, expansive administration building, as well as quality learning spaces for all classes. 

Quakers Hill East Public School is supported by a multicultural community. 70% of our students have a language background other than English, and 58% require some level of of EAL/D support. Punjabi, Hindi and Gujarati are the most dominant languages spoken at home after English. 1.2% of students identify as  Aboriginal. Our Family Occupation and Education Index (FOEI) is 24. 

Quakers Hill East Public School has a combination of experienced and early career teachers. The school has strong partnerships with schools in the Quakers Hill Network as well as with the Quakers Hill and Blacktown Learning Communities, which support the provision of a range of educational opportunities for staff and students including but not limited to: Sport, Public Speaking, STEM and Coding, Student Leadership, Creative and Performing Arts and strong transition programs.

1.Approval to teach students with learning and support needs (primary) and/or experience teaching students with learning and support needs (primary) in regular classes.

2.Capacity to provide specialist assistance to students in regular classes with additional learning and support needs and the ability to support their teachers to meet the academic, social, emotional and behavioural needs of students. 

3. Well established understanding of school wellbeing programs, with a strong emphasis on trauma-informed positive practices and use of evidence-based strategies to support student engagement, participation, and wellbeing.

4. Demonstrated ability to facilitate professional learning and support staff to improve their capacity for data analysis of student growth and achievement, effective differentiation of curriculum and engage a diverse range of students in effective teaching and learning programs.  

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.

The role statement for the Learning and Support Teacher may be accessed at: 

https://education.nsw.gov.au/content/dam/main-education/teaching-and-learning/disability-learning-and-support/media/documents/last-role.pdf

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, culturally and linguistically diverse groups, 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.