Location Sydney Region
Advertisement Number A900107544
Number of Positions 1
Total Remuneration Package: Remuneration package valued at up to $130,336.00. Base salary ranges from $73,737.00 to $117,060.00, plus leave loading and employer's contribution to superannuation. Base salary rates above the minimum are available depending on experience.
School Name Evans High School
Principal Network Bungarribee
Staffing Area Blacktown
FTE 1.000
Contact Name Nerina Pretlove
Contact Phone number 9621 3622
Closing Date 30-Mar-2022
Job Category Teachers
Organisation Teaching Service
Position Information
At Evans High School, we are committed to providing students with strong academic, physical and social foundations to support their diverse transitions to tertiary education, TAFE and the workplace. There are 618 students, 8% of Aboriginal and 62% Language other than English backgrounds enrolled across the school. Our experienced and innovative staff bring expertise and passion into their classrooms providing targeted learning programs to support and cater for a wide range of student needs and skill sets.
Our school hosts the Evans Intensive English Centre which prepares newly arrived, to Australia, students to develop English skills to engage with curriculum in schools across the greater Western Sydney. The Learning Support Faculty provides students with an Austism diagnosis with a rich and student-centred learning program based on individual needs. In addition, the Return to School Centre provides targeted support for students from across Sydney West to build their personal skills and refocus on their studies before returning to their home schools.
The diverse range of our students is catered for through programs delivered across the Middle and Senior school. With 68% English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D), 5% ATSI, a growing group of International students and those from many backgrounds, our highly staff cater for their needs. An innovative and strong transition program supports students to move from the primary to secondary setting with ease. Community elders work with ATSI students to develop and achieve learning goals and our leadership program focusses on the development of students who are able to work in collaborative teams, think creatively and represent their school in a wide range of spheres.
Every classroom has state of the art technology with computer banks and panels and are air conditioned to improve the learning conditions for all. In addition, our newly established STEM room is equipped with laser cutters, 3D printers and resources to challenge students. Alternative classroom furnishings for Years 7 and 8 provide settings that are responsive to student learning styles and subject needs and a programmed cycle of maintenance is seeing the renewal of all of our classrooms. Our external learning spaces include an internal and external gym, undercover sporting areas and playing fields.
This year, in Term 4, we are moving to the 3 X 3 or compressed curriculum Pathways model delivery of the HSC with students undertaking three subjects in their HSC 1 and three in their HSC 2 years.
Students are at the centre of our endeavours and we value the relationships with our parents, guardians and the wider community in supporting students to move into adulthood.
Specific Selection Criteria
1. Approval to teach: IPT Information Processes & Technology; ITX Technology Mandatory; SDD Software Desigh & Development. Approval or willling to teach IST Information and Software Technology
2. Experienced in designing and delivering innovative ICT based teaching and learning programs to cater for a wide range of students to inspire improved achievement
3. Energetic and innovative teacher, committed to elevating ICT across the school with the ability to deliver professional learning
4. Proven capacity to work collaboratively within in the TAS faculty
5. Ability to work with the TSO to manage hardware and software systems in an extremely well-equipped 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.
From 8 November 2021 all Department of Education employees undertaking relevant work, including any work conducted on a NSW school site, will be required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The successful candidate for this position will be required to confirm full vaccination status prior to the Department of Education finalising the appointment of the candidate and entry on duty. Further information on the Department’s COVID-19 response is available at https://education.nsw.gov.au/covid-19.
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 all ages and genders, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, 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.
