Description:
Position InformationJohn Warby Public School has a current enrolment of 282 students from Preschool to Year 6, including 24 students in the 4 class Inclusive Education setting (consisting of 1 x IM, 1 x IO/AU and 2 x MC classes) in 2025. 41% of students are from a language background other than English and 24% of students identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. The school successfully caters for students from diverse cultural and socio-economic backgrounds and aims to develop the whole child and cater for individual differences, providing programs to support specific needs. The school continues to build on quality teaching, learning and leadership practices, with commitment to improving and sustaining student results in literacy and numeracy. There is a strong focus on student wellbeing practices at the school. John Warby Public School is currently undergoing a slight increase in enrolments due to the redevelopment of the Airds community.
Selection Criteria
- Approval to teach students with learning and support needs Primary and/or experience teaching students with learning and support needs Primary in regular classes.
- Capacity to provide specialist assistance to students in regular classes with additional learning and support needs and their teachers.
- Demonstrated ability to work with classroom teachers and parents/carers to identify specific learning and support and develop individual programs that support improved outcomes for learners (including high potential and gifted students, students with learning and/or behavioural difficulties and/or EAL/D students).
- Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work collaboratively with a broad range of stakeholders, including students, teachers, learning support officers, parents and health care providers to ensure individual student learning needs are met.
- Demonstrated knowledge of policies, evidence-based practices and DoE resources to collaboratively plan, organise, monitor and evaluate learning and support documentation across the school for students with a range of learning needs.
Conditions 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.
Special Notes Access the role statement for learning and support teachers here; https://education.nsw.gov.au/content/dam/main-education/teaching-and-learning/disability-learning-and-support/media/documents/last-role.pdf 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 .