Teacher Special Education - Casuarina School

Casuarina School is an Intensive Learning Support Placement School supporting students with complex trauma, mental health conditions, autism, emotional and behavioural disorders. We have a total of 49 students from Year 5 to Year 12 across 7 classes. 

Our primary focuses are on student's social and emotional wellbeing and providing high quality, explicit and evidence based teaching and learning opportunities. 

Approval to teach Special Education and/or demonstrated experience supporting students with Autism, trauma and complex behavioural needs.

Demonstrated ability to design and deliver differentiated, data-informed programs that use explicit teaching, evidence-based practice and high expectations to improve academic, social and behavioural outcomes.

Demonstrated effective classroom management skills that create a safe, inclusive and engaging learning environment.

Strong organisational and interpersonal skills with demonstrated capacity to build positive, collaborative relationships with staff, students, parents/ carers and external providers.

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.

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 people of all backgrounds, including but not limited to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, people of any age or gender, people from culturally and linguistically diverse groups and/or from the LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, refugees, people with disability, people with sensory differences, and neurodiverse people. If we can make some adjustments to our recruitment/interview process to better help you shine, please reach out to the contact person for this recruitment, details listed above. For more information, visit the NSW Department of Education’s Diversity, equity and inclusion webpage.

Merit selection application guidelines for classroom teachers, executives and principals provide clear advice for applicants and selection panels. The guidelines are available here. 

To meet the page limits outlined in the guidelines, all application attachments must be submitted in PDF format. Please note that late applications will not be accepted.