At a Glance
- Tasks: Support students with disabilities in their transition from school to post-school life.
- Company: Cairnsfoot School, a purpose-built facility for specific educational needs.
- Benefits: Competitive salary package up to $160,942, plus leave loading and superannuation.
- Other info: Dynamic role requiring travel across multiple schools and collaboration with various stakeholders.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in the lives of students with diverse needs and backgrounds.
- Qualifications: Approval to teach special education and experience in transition support.
The predicted salary is between 49500 - 60500 $ per year.
Cairnsfoot School is a purpose-built facility for Specific Purposes located in Brighton-Le-Sands. The school caters for the learning needs of students from K-12 with moderate to severe intellectual disabilities and complex needs such as autism, challenging behaviours, physical disabilities and health care needs. The school has a diverse student enrolment from a range of socio-economic backgrounds with 70% having a Language Background other than English.
The Support Teacher Transition (STT) position is a specialist role that assists secondary students in regular and special school settings, their parents and carers, educational services and school personnel with the transition process. The role facilitates transition from school to post school destinations and requires close collaboration between students, families, schools, educational services teams and a wide range of community-based education, training and specialist service providers. Developing strong professional relationships with School Leaver Employment Programs (SLES), Local Area Coordinators, Disability Employment Services and NDIS providers is essential to the role.
The Support Teacher Transition is based at Cairnsfoot School (School for specific purpose) and supports the following cluster of schools:
- Bayside High School
- Cairnsfoot School (School for specific purpose)
- Canterbury Boys High School
- Canterbury Girls High School
- Carinya School (School for specific purpose)
- Georges River College Hurstville Campus
- Georges River College Oatley Senior Campus
- Georges River College Peakhurst Campus
- Georges River College Penshurst Campus
- Kingsgrove High School
- Kingsgrove North High School
- Kogarah High School
- St George Girls High School
- St George Hospital School
- St George School (School for specific purpose)
- Sydney Technical High School
- Woniora Rd School (School for specific purpose)
Specific Selection Criteria:
- Approval to teach special education and/or experience teaching Transition (Itinerant)
- Ability to manage time effectively, work independently, exercise sound professional judgement, and prioritise competing priorities
- Capacity to work with families and expertise in the development, implementation and evaluation of programs supporting students transitioning to post school
- Ability and willingness to travel across Principal Networks, including a current Driver’s Licence or demonstrated capacity to meet the travel requirements of this role
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:
- Ability and willingness to travel between worksites.
- 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. 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.
We pay respect to the Traditional Custodians and First Peoples of NSW, and acknowledge their continued connection to their country and culture.
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