AddressPosition Information
Hampden Park Public School has an enrolment of approximately 880 students in the south west Sydney suburb of Lakemba. Our community represents over 40 nationalities with 99% of students coming from non-English speaking backgrounds. Our main community languages are Urdu, Bangla, Arabic and Indonesian.
The school provides excellent education for all students from Kindergarten to Year 6 and we have four established support classes with a new class opening in 2024. Our dedicated and enthusiastic staff focus on ongoing professional development and improvement, engage in distributed leadership practices and contribute to a culture of high expectations to ensure the best education for each student. We actively seek student and parent voice in building a positive school community. Our parent community has aspirations for their children to be confident, respectful toward others and successful learners.
Selection Criteria
- Approval to teach Special Education and/or experience teaching students with complex needs such as moderate intellectual disabilities and autism.
- Demonstrated ability to utilise student assessment and other data to develop, implement and evaluate differentiated and innovative individual learning and behaviour response management plans.
- Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work collaboratively in a variety of teams and build strong and inclusive relationships with parents and members of the wider school community.
- Demonstrated commitment to ongoing professional learning and improvement consistent with school priorities.
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.
Special Notes
This advertisement is for two classroom teacher positions.
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.
