At a Glance
- Tasks: Teach and support students with diverse needs in a nurturing environment.
- Company: Nowra East Public School, a Connected Communities school on the South Coast.
- Benefits: Join a supportive community focused on cultural identity and student wellbeing.
- Other info: Collaborate with families and communities to enhance educational outcomes.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in students' lives while fostering inclusivity and growth.
- Qualifications: Approval to teach Special Education and experience with diverse learning needs.
The predicted salary is between 47250 - 57750 $ per year.
Nowra East Public School (NEPS) is a Connected Communities school located on the South Coast of New South Wales. We collaborate closely with our community to provide teaching and learning opportunities within a nurturing and inclusive environment. Our diverse student population of approximately 480 includes 53% Aboriginal students. We are committed to supporting students’ ongoing growth in cultural identity, wellbeing, literacy, and numeracy.
NEPS comprises seventeen regular classes, seven support classes, and a NSW Department of Education preschool, which received an ‘Exceeding’ rating from ACECQA in 2025. We work in partnership with a School Reference Group, Senior Leader Community Engagement, three Aboriginal Educational Officers, the Aboriginal community, and the Nowra Local Aboriginal Education Consultative Group to promote cultural understanding and connection to Country. Our school focuses on excellence in education with a strong emphasis on literacy and numeracy.
All staff engage in continuous professional learning informed by current evidence-based pedagogy. Students, families, and staff collaboratively develop personalised learning pathways, fostering shared ownership of student goals. As a school that values restorative practices and student voices, NEPS upholds the values of being safe, respectful, and responsible learners. Our commitment to quality education and authentic care aims to ensure that students are supported to thrive academically, socially, and culturally.
Connected Communities is a strategy to drive improved educational outcomes for Aboriginal children and young people. The strategy positions schools as community hubs that broaden the influence of the community and school leadership in the delivery of key services that support children and young people from birth through school into further training, study and employment.
Specific Selection Criteria
- Approval to teach Special Education and/or experience teaching students with autism, mild and moderate intellectual disabilities, mental health needs, trauma and complex challenging behaviours.
- Demonstrated ability to design and deliver differentiated, data-informed programs that use explicit teaching, evidence-based practice and high expectations to improve academic, social and behavioural outcomes.
- High-level communication and interpersonal skills, with the proven ability to work collaboratively with colleagues, parents, carers, school learning and support officers, external agencies and providers and the wider community.
- Demonstrated commitment to Aboriginal education and to working in genuine partnership with families, communities, and students to support improved educational and wellbeing outcomes.
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
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 people of all backgrounds, including but not limited to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, people of any age or gender, people from culturally and linguistically diverse groups and/or from the LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, refugees, people with disability, people with sensory differences, and neurodiverse people.
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