Teacher Special/Inclusive Education - Caves Beach Public School

Caves Beach Public School is located in the East Lake Macquarie area of Newcastle. It is situated in a beautiful bush-land setting close to Caves Beach. The school enjoys spacious and attractive grounds and shares borders with Swansea High School. Our school delivers excellent academic, sporting, creative and performing arts programs that ensure all students receive high quality teaching and learning activities in a safe and secure environment.

Our school enrollment is approximately 382 students with 268 families. Within this, there are 33 students from 19 families identifying as Aboriginal. The school FOEI (Family Occupation and Employment Index) is currently 74  determining our needs based funding. 

We are committed to the Values of Public Education and share this commitment with our families and whole school community. Our school values guide student wellbeing and are explicitly taught in classrooms. Values education underpins every area of school life. 

Caves Beach Public School is an active member of the supportive Galgabba Community of Schools (CoS) who work collaboratively and responsively to ensure every teacher, every student, every leader improves every year.

Our Support Unit is newly established this year and consists of 2 x Multi - Categorical classes and 1 x Emotionally Disturbance class.

• Approval to teach special education and/or experience teaching K-6 with emotional and complex challenging behaviours, autism, sensory needs, intellectual and physical disabilities and diverse cultural backgrounds.
• Demonstrated quality classroom practice including highly developed behaviour management skills which enhance student engagement through enriched differentiated and individualised learning programs.
• Highly developed communication and organisational skills with demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with staff, parents, community, therapists and agencies to develop and evaluate personalised learning, behaviour, health care, risk management and transition plans.
• Commitment to whole school positive wellbeing programs, with a strong emphasis on effective classroom practice and behaviour management strategies.

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.

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, 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.