Teacher Special Education – Randwick High School in Sydney

Randwick High School's foundation year in 2025 marked the beginning of a new era for public education in the Eastern Suburbs area. Our school serves approximately 1400 students and celebrates its inclusivity, catering for students of all needs and many cultural backgrounds (including 58% from language backgrounds other than English). Our teachers provide a wealth of rich learning experiences to engage all students in extending their potential and pursuing their passions. We offer a broad curriculum, energising learners through classroom and co-curricular experiences. The school enjoys a history of strong HSC achievement and rich learning pathways, combining care for students' wellbeing with high academic standards. Randwick High School focuses on our learners today to create the leaders of tomorrow. Our Inclusive Learning Centre (ILC) will be at the school in 2027. The first ILC class is an Autism/Moderated Intellectual Disability class. This teaching position will be the inaugural ILC Teacher appointed to the school. The teacher will be responsible for delivering the curriculum to ILC students, assisting their development of learning and social skills as well as supporting their inclusion within the school.

Specific Selection Criteria

• Approval to teach special education and/or experience teaching students with autism within a support class setting.
• Demonstrated ability to plan, implement and evaluate differentiated learning experiences to support students with complex learning, behavioural, social and/or emotional needs.
• Demonstrated successful classroom management skills with flexible and adaptive strategies that create a positive learning environment, authentic relationships and enable each individual's success.
• High-level interpersonal skills with demonstrated capacity to effectively collaborate across all stakeholders including students, mainstream teachers, families and external agencies to contribute to the establishment of a new Inclusive Learning Centre class and strengthen inclusivity across the school.

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.

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. If we can make some adjustments to our recruitment/interview process to better help you shine, please reach out to the contact person for this recruitment.

For more information, visit the NSW Department of Education’s Diversity, equity and inclusion webpage.

Merit selection application guidelines for classroom teachers, executives and principals provide clear advice for applicants and selection panels. The guidelines are available here.

Please note that late applications will not be accepted.

We pay respect to the Traditional Custodians and First Peoples of NSW, and acknowledge their continued connection to their country and culture.