Teacher Special/Inclusive Education - Murrumbidgee Regional High School

Murrumbidgee Regional High School is a large, 7-12 comprehensive secondary school in Griffith with 1160 students, including 12% Aboriginal and 22% Pasifika students, as such we have two Clontarf Academies, an Aboriginal Learning and Engagement Centre.

Our school is situated across two sites, both offering a comprehensive 7-12 curriculum, largely aligned to provide improved student choice and opportunities for specialisation. There is a growing reliance on technology and innovation to connect senior courses to enable greater collaboration between teachers and students. We have a large Support Unit with 8 classes across the two sites.

The school has a strong academic and vocational curriculum with a focus on the development of capabilities, innovation and evidence informed practice. The school is renowned for and extremely proud of its strong community support. There is an emphasis on learning and career pathways with a focus on hospitality, engineering and agriculture to meet the growing employment opportunities in Griffith.

Our school is very well resourced, with the ability to employ a significant number of staff above establishment. including up to five teaching staff, two deputy principals, a Head Teacher VET, an Instructional Leader and STEM coordinator who works across our partner primary schools and with other primary and secondary schools in the local area.

We set high expectations for ourselves to ensure all students and their families feel a genuine sense of belonging and connection to our school, through clear and consistent communication, underpinned by rigorous systems to support high quality teaching, learning and wellbeing.

Our success will be measured by the partnerships we forge with our students, families and broader community to create lifelong, agile and resilient learners fully equipped to flourish in life after school.

1. Approval to teach special education and/or experience teaching students with Autism, Emotional Disturbance, Mild Intellectual Disability, physical disabilities, challenging behaviours and mental health with a knowledge of trauma informed teaching practice.

2. Demonstrated ability to develop, implement and monitor quality personalised learning and support plans.

3. Demonstrated capacity to develop, implement and evaluate differentiated and innovative learning programs in a range of Key Learning Areas.

4. Demonstrated ability at developing and implementing a whole class positive behaviour management system.

5. Demonstrated high-level interpersonal skills and the capacity to effectively communicate across all key stakeholders within the school context, including students, parents, carers, external agencies, and the wider community, to build and enhance a culture of inclusivity.

The successful applicant may be eligible to receive a one-off recruitment payment of $20,000. (Conditions apply).

A relocation support package of up to $10,000 will be available for eligible applicants.

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.