Location: Broulee, NSW
Employment Type: Permanent
Employment Status: Full-time
Salary Range: $76,754 to $126,236 full time equivalent plus $18,983 NSW Coordinator 2 Allowance plus superannuation. Salary is determined based on years of teaching service.
Start Date: Commencing 2025
Closing Date: 11.55pm, Sunday 6 October 2024
CECG is committed to workforce diversity and creating inclusive workplaces. We welcome applications from suitable candidates from all diversity groups to support our system of schools and early learning centres in delivering quality education outcomes for the students in our care.
About Carroll College
Carroll College is a dynamic school where we all constantly strive for academic excellence. Our teachers are highly qualified and are continually developing their own knowledge and skills to ensure that all our students are challenged, while also having individual needs catered for. As a College we implement innovative and engaging teaching programs that are based on contemporary educational theory.
About the Role
The Inclusive Education Coordinator is directly responsible to the Principal and has specific responsibility for the integration of a learning, wellbeing and academic care culture that is, in all aspects, consistent with who we say we are as a Catholic school, and which is directed towards continuous improvement and academic care of each student.
The focus is on collaborating with Curriculum and Pastoral Coordinators, and teachers, to ensure authentic teaching and learning experiences, along with pastoral supports, are the norm at Carroll College and student performance is enhanced as a result.
The Inclusive Education Coordinator role is designed to embed high quality teaching and learning through targeted leadership in wellbeing, diversity, and inclusion. The Inclusive Education Coordinator will work with the Principal, Assistant Principals and Curriculum Coordinators to support the implementation of the NSW Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum and contemporary pedagogies with a particular emphasis on explicit instruction.
Benefits and Opportunities
- A positive and collaborative workplace culture
- Extensive training in our high-quality professional learning program, Catalyst
- Access to curriculum resources that support evidence-based, high-impact teaching practice
- 24 weeks of paid parental leave (maternity/adoption)
- Up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave (paternity/non-initial primary carer leave)
- Support for professional development and study opportunities
- Opportunities to transfer to other schools within the Archdiocese across ACT and NSW to support lifestyle choice
Key Responsibilities
- Leading the Classroom Support Team and Aboriginal Education team to ensure that the educational needs of students with disabilities, students who identify as having Aboriginal heritage and students who have additional learning and support needs;
- Leading the National Consistent Collection of Data (NCCD) Agreed Practice for personalised plans for students with disabilities;
- Leading and coordinating psychological test materials and tools such as YARC, and Child and Adolescent PsychProfiler v5 (oriented to DSM-5) Self Assessment;
- Overseeing MacLit and other tutoring programs to track and improve student performance;
- Providing expert advice and support to the Executive Leadership Team in the management and resolution of complex matters relating to Learning and Wellbeing;
- Assessing student needs and identifying intervention and implementation plans to ensure success for the students’ learning and engagement;
- Working with the Assistant Principal, Innovation, Curriculum and Achievement to ensure the establishment and implementation of agreed practices in regard to pedagogy, learning environment, the use of technology and assessment and reporting;
- Working with the Assistant Principals and Pastoral Care Coordinators to ensure an integrated approach to student learning and wellbeing;
- Ensuring familiarity with NESA requirements for implementation, programming, and assessing of the Australian Curriculum and other Board courses and supporting Curriculum Coordinators and Teachers to maintain compliance;
- Ensuring NCCD compliance;
- Ensuring applications for Disability Provisions for eligible students in their HSC year are prepared and processed in a timely and efficient manner.
Qualifications
- Working with Vulnerable People (WWVP) and/or Working with Children’s Check (WWCC) registrations.
- Teaching Quality Institute (TQI) registration and/or NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) accreditation.
- Minimum four-year teaching qualification with relevant teaching experience.
- Formal qualifications in Inclusive Education are preferable for this position.
Selection Criteria
- Demonstrates a willingness to support and promote the mission of the Church in Catholic Education and Carroll College values;
- Demonstrated evidence of effective team-work and collaboration;
- Successful experience in educational leadership;
- Passion and expertise to work individually and collectively with students, parents and teachers to create programs and learning experiences to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities;
- A strong understanding of contemporary approaches to student learning and effective pedagogical practices;
- The capacity to lead a team of people and to bring about effective change;
- A high level of organisational and communication skills;
- Appropriate qualifications and a commitment to engage in relevant ongoing Professional learning.
Please refer to the position description for in-depth details regarding the position duties, criteria, and skill set required.
Other Eligibility Criteria
- You must be an Australian Citizen or Permanent Resident to be eligible to apply for this position.
- Appointment is subject to satisfactory employment screening for child-related employment in accordance with CECG policy.
Applicants are required to submit a cover letter and current resume including a statement of suitability against the skills, attributes, and experience as outlined in the Position Description.
This position involves working with children. The appointment of successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory employment screening for child-related employment in accordance with CE policy.
For further information about the School please visit our website. Information about the Catholic Education Archdiocese of Canberra & Goulburn can be accessed here.
