Assistant Principal Special Education - General - Young Public School

Young Public School is located on Wiradjuri country in the northern Riverina area of New South Wales with an enrolment of 520 students, including 63 Aboriginal students. The school has 4 support classes as well as 20 mainstream classes for students K-6. There is a very strong culture of intensive learning and wellbeing support, achieved through a multi-tiered system of supports approach. There is an ongoing focus on continuous improvement, as well as maintaining a positive learning and social environment in the school. Young Public School is celebrating significant, sustained growth in student reading attainment as well as other English strands. Our improvement trajectory is also occurring across many other targeted areas.

In addition to the general selection criteria,

1. Approval to teach Special Education and/or demonstrated capacity to support students with moderate to severe intellectual disability, physical needs, autism, and challenging behaviours.
2. Capacity to lead and support staff, implementing quality, innovative programs and practices to improve the learning outcomes of all students.
3. Proven experience in providing specialist advice and building capacity of staff to support the additional learning needs of students in mainstream classes within a large dynamic school environment. 
4. Outstanding communication, organisational and interpersonal skills with a proven ability to effectively collaborate with parents, staff, students and the broader community.

1. Successful teaching experience with capacity to initiate improvement in teaching, learning and classroom practice
2. Knowledge of curriculum, assessment and student welfare with the ability to lead and design quality, inclusive teaching and learning programs
3. Educational leadership skills to build the capacity and manage the performance of individuals and teams
4. Well developed communication and interpersonal skills with the capacity to build relationships and engage students, staff and parents
5. Ability to plan and manage resources effectively and equitably to support teaching and learning
6. Knowledge of and commitment to the Department's Aboriginal education policies

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.

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 (*****@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.