Teacher - Flying Squad - Category 1

Advertised Vacancy Number: DOE891709

Appointment Pool

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to work in a range of schools across regional and remote Western Australia where you will receive free accommodation, travel to and from appointments and other incentives and allowances?

In addition, you will get to interact with students across diverse social, physical, and educational settings and experience multifaceted work in diverse classroom settings where each appointment is different? 

If this sounds like the job for you, we encourage you to join the Department’s Teacher Flying Squad – Category 1 Appointment Pool. 

Successful applicants will be employed in a 24-month, fixed term contract. After the successful completion of your two-year continuous service and probationary period, you will be appointed as a permanent teacher with the Department. 

As a Flying Squad teacher, you will fill short term vacancies in regional, rural, and remote schools across the State. Often, these vacancies occur at short notice, with some requiring you to leave the following day.

Appointments will be for periods of four weeks or more, up to 10 weeks. 

Early childhood, primary, and secondary teachers are encouraged to apply. We welcome applications from graduate, fixed term and permanent teachers who are available immediately as well as during the 2024 to 2026 school years.

As a Category 1Flying Squad Teacher, you will be employed full time on a two-year contract. You will also receive a $16,500 per annum allowance, paid fortnightly. The allowance is paid in lieu of any other allowances provided to teachers based on the location of a school.

During 2024, you may also be entitled to receive an additional pro-rata Attraction and Retention Incentive (ARI) payment on top of your dislocation allowance if appointed to an ARI school for a maximum of 10 weeks.

How does this Flying Squad pool work?

The Teacher Flying Squad service is primarily used to assist schools that have identified an urgent and often unanticipated need for an additional teacher to support students at their school. 

As part of our Category 1 Teacher Flying Squad team, you will travel, as directed, to selected regional areas to fill short term vacancies. You may be deployed on short notice and on occasion, may be asked to work outside of your area of qualification for short periods.

While you are employed on your two-year contract you will be have a ‘base’ school in the metropolitan area, or large regional area, depending on your circumstances and preferences. As you may need to be appointed to a vacancy on short notice, you will not have your own class at your base school or be part of the regular timetable. Instead, you will provide internal relief, or additional support at your base school. You will only work at your base school, subject to negotiation between the Flying Squad and base school principal, if you are not required for Flying Squad appointment at that time.

Travel and accommodation are included during your deployments to regional areas. Due to the nature of the short-term accommodation provided, it is extremely unlikely that pets can travel alongside you to each location.

Is this right for me?

Our Flying Squad teachers have success where they can quickly and readily develop positive relationships with students, have a strong curriculum knowledge, and use effective classroom management strategies. 

Your approach will be flexible and adaptive, with a practical mindset; someone who can ‘think on their feet’. You should also be willing, and able, to travel on short notice and be able to adapt quickly to living in different towns and communities, and be able to interact positively in communities that are different from urban settings.

If you are a current permanent teacher, you must first seek approval from your line manager to apply. If you are successful in being appointed to the pool, you will need to be released from your current role for the whole two-year period. After this time, you will resume your position at your substantive school.

Want to know a bit more?

Hear from one of our teachers and her experience in her travel blog, or check out our careers website, individual school websites, Schools Online, tourism and council websites for information about schools and locations.

You can contact the Teacher Flying Squad team for further information about this employment opportunity, by telephoning Kelly Hartzenberg on (08) 9264 5315 or Anthony Miller on (08) 9264 8677. Alternatively, you can email ssc.flyingsqaud@education.wa.edu.au

Cultural Diversity

The Department is an equal opportunity employer and encourages people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and persons from culturally diverse backgrounds to apply.

How do I apply?

This will be a two-stage selection process.

Stage 1:

You must complete the online application, attaching a comprehensive CV (maximum 4 pages) and a cover letter (maximum 1 page) demonstrating your competency - in the context of this role - against the Professional Domains from the AITSL Australian Professional Standards for Teachers. These are:

• Professional Knowledge
• Professional Practice
• Professional Engagement

You must also include the contact details for two (2) work related referees who can attest to the claims made in your written application, preferably one being your current or most recent line manager.

Please refer to the attached Application Information Booklet for further information.

You will be assessed on information provided in your CV and cover letter as well as referee checks. If you are competitive, you will progress to the second stage of the process.

Stage 2:

In the second stage, you will attend an online interview via MS Teams.

The information gleaned from your interview will form an important part of the overall assessment process.

Successful applicants will be notified of their inclusion in the appointment pool following this second stage of the recruitment process and the breach period.

Remember to attach:

If you are not a current, permanent, or fixed term teacher with the Department, you must also attach:

• Identification - please note, we do not accept driver’s licences. This could be:
• birth certificate
• passport
• change of name document (this is only required if your name is different to your other documents)
• Eligibility to work - if you are not an Australian citizen or permanent resident, evidence of eligibility to work in Australia, such as:
• Australian or New Zealand citizenship or Australian work permit (i.e., citizenship papers) if you were born overseas
• Australian work visa with date of entry. You can get this through VEVO – Visa Entitlement Verification Online (VEVO):
• Qualifications – please attach copies of your teaching qualifications (transcripts)

After you have submitted your application online, you will receive an email confirming lodgement. If you do not receive a confirmation email, please phone (08) 9264 4127.

Further information and support

If you are having difficulty submitting your online application, please phone (08) 9264 8666 for assistance.

The Department applies a four (4) day breach period to this selection process.

Applications must be submitted before 4.30pm (WST) on Friday, 3 May 2024.

Lodgement is system generated. Any submissions at, or after, 4:30pm will not be accepted.  

APPLICATIONS MUST BE SUBMITTED ONLINE

PROFORMA, FAXED, HAND DELIVERED, POSTED, EMAILED AND LATE APPLICATIONS ARE NOT ACCEPTED