Learning Support Teacher & Teacher | St Joseph's School, Tara

• Learning Support Teacher | Permanent | Part Time | 9 hours per week (0.3 FTE)
• Teacher | Additional 9 hours per week (total 18 hours/0.6 FTE) for the 2024 school year
• $81,627 - $138,605 per annum (pro-rata) plus super + benefits package

St Joseph’s School emphasises ‘community’ - principals, teachers, staff and parents working together with the wider community to educate and develop each child - emotionally, academically, physically, socially and spiritually. As a small, well-resourced school they are achieving educational excellence as they create a welcoming, vibrant, and inclusive place of learning. Staff are valued and supported as they continue their own learning journey with a range of in-school and off-site professional learning options. 

A community of students who are motivated to learn and do their best. 

With a strong multi-age and early years curriculum, quality classroom management, integrated Indigenous education, and lived Catholic school identity - St Joseph’s has much to offer both staff, students and their families. Find out more about the school on Facebook. 

As an integral member of this school community, your primary role will be as a teacher of Learning Support for 9 hours (0.3 FTE) each week on a permanent basis. 

For the 2024 school year, you will be supported with an additional 9 hours (total of 0.6 FTE) to engage with students either in the classroom or in specialist teaching areas dependent on your skill set, experience and interests.

As a rural school, you may also be able to secure additional relief work, where available, should you wish to work more than 0.6 FTE. 

As an experienced educator, you will work collaboratively with school leaders, teachers and support staff to

• share your contemporary professional skills and knowledge of supporting students with additional requirements
• enable teachers to plan personalised learning opportunities that are inclusive and meet students additional requirements
• liaise with parents/legal guardians and other agencies in support of students’ personalised learning
• provide specialist advice in the acquisition, development, and provision of resources and programs
• liaise and network with Learning Support Teachers from other schools and access support and services from the Toowoomba Catholic Schools Office.

Further details can be obtained from the Role Description.

As a Learning Support Teacher with Toowoomba Catholic Schools, you will be joining a network of 32 schools, that, with the Toowoomba Catholic Schools Office form Toowoomba Catholic Schools. Through our shared purpose, enabling full and flourishing lives we support staff and students to reach their potential.  

Working at St Joseph's School you will be focused on providing students with required support in the classroom and support staff with strategies and advice to Plan for Personalised Learning.  You will receive regular support from visiting Education Officers and allied health professionals - experts who will help you advance your advisory skills, pedagogy and resource development. You will also be a part of a professional network and given the opportunity to attend targeted professional development hosted by the Toowoomba Catholic Schools Office. 

Being a teacher at Tara attracts a generous financial benefit package including

• Supported relocation assistance of up to $4,500
• Support to move additional household members of up to $500 per person
• Accommodation allowance of $251 per week (pro rata)
• Travel leave of 2 days per year
• Emergent leave of 2 days per year (pro rata)
• Isolated Teacher's Assistance Scheme (ITAS) (pro rata)
• Bi-annual incentive payment of $1,500 in your first year (pro rata), plus further payments each year up to 5 years of service
• Eligibility to relocate to a Toowoomba school after 2 years of service.

Living and working in a town like Tara means you too can enjoy being part of a warm and welcoming regional community. Sport, history, nature, outdoor pursuits and cultural events draw people together and becoming involved is easy and you too can experience a warm outback welcome extended to all that come to live here. The staff at St Joseph's School, Tara have made meaningful connections with each other and their community. All staff are now passionate locals who came for a short time, fell in love with the place and decided to stay and make the Tara area their home.

Tara offers a relaxed country lifestyle only two hours from Toowoomba.

Live outside Tara? We encourage you to visit the Experience Western Downs Queensland website to discover what living in Tara has to offer.

Please address your application to Kylie Williams, Principal.

Click 'apply' to submit and include 

• a written response, of no more than two pages, highlighting your demonstrated experience and relevant skills as they relate to the Key Result Areas in the Role Description.
• your resume, to include the names of two professional referees (one must be your current or most recent Principal). 

If you require further information about this role, please contact Principal Kylie Williams by email **************@twb.catholic.edu.au or phone 07 4665 3***. 

Applications close Monday, 3 June 2024. 

For more information about Toowoomba Catholic Schools visit our website.

Employment will be in accordance with the Catholic Employers Single Enterprise Collective Agreement – Diocesan Schools of Queensland 2023-2026.