Address St Patrick's Primary School Wallsend is seeking a temporary part-time (14 hours per week) Pastoral Care Worker to join the team for the remainder of 2024.
St Patrick's Primary School, Wallsend is a Catholic community in the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle offering families a welcoming and caring environment for their children to learn, grow and achieve academically from Kindergarten to Year 6.
St Patrick’s offers high-quality education in a contemporary learning environment that nurtures creativity, critical thinking and innovation, supported by technologies.
The school community of St Patrick’s work together to ensure a positive and challenging learning environment that supports the needs of all students and is a true professional learning community at work.
POSITION DESCRIPTION
Pastoral care is defined in the Project Agreement with the Commonwealth Government as the practice of looking after the personal needs of students, not just their academic needs, through the provision of general spiritual and personal advice.
Pastoral Care Workers support the Pastoral Care of students by providing:
Pastoral Care services
strategies that support the wellbeing of the broader school community. NSCP, 2019, 10. (Guidelines on NSW Arrangements for 2020–2022).
The role of the Pastoral Care Worker will vary depending on the needs of the individual schools and their communities. Therefore, schools are encouraged to shape the role of the position according to local needs and the capacities of the incumbent.
