Location: Sydney Region   

Advertisement Number: A900139140

Number of Positions: 1

Total Remuneration Package: Remuneration package valued at up to $146,635.00. Base salary ranges from $85,000.00 to $129,948.00, plus leave loading and employer's contribution to superannuation. Base salary rates above the minimum are available depending on experience.

School Name: Melonba Public School

Principal Network: South Creek

Staffing Area: Blacktown

FTE: 1.000

Contact Name: Larissa Maraga

Contact Phone number: 0400 370 420

Contact: School Admin - 99999999

Closing Date: 23-Oct-2024, 4:00:00 PM

Job Category: Teachers

Organisation: Teaching Service 

Position Information 

Melonba Public School is a brand new school located in the South Creek Network. The school will be located in Melonba in the north-west growth corridor of Sydney which has a high proportion of EAL/D students. The school will be situated in a diverse and multicultural community. Student enrolments are expected to increase significantly in the first five years of operation as the surrounding area undergoes extensive development.

The school will have capacity for up to 1000 students when completed. Melonba Public School will include three support classes for students with disabilities and additional learning needs, and planning is underway for a preschool. The school will be located at Swallowtail Drive, Melonba, alongside the new Melonba High School. In 2025, Melonba Public School will open at the current temporary high school site, moving into their permanent school alongside the permanent high school in mid 2025.

Specific Selection Criteria 

1. Approval to teach infants and primary (K-6) with demonstrated ability to use evidence informed practices to deliver differentiated, high quality, explicit literacy and numeracy programs.

2. Proven ability to create and sustain a culture of high expectations  to develop a positive classroom learning environment that enables students to achieve high-quality wellbeing and learning outcomes. 

3. Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills with demonstrated capacity to work as part of a collaborative team and build positive relationships with students, staff and the community.

4. High level organisational skills with the capacity to enrich student learning opportunities beyond the classroom in areas such as, but not limited to, public speaking, dance and sport.

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 

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 ([email protected]) 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. The commencement date for this position will be day 1 of the 2025 school year