Job Description 

Gloucester High School is a comprehensive school serving the communities of the Bucketts Way. Our school has a student population of approximately 310 students, of which 13% are of Aboriginal heritage. Our students come from both rural farming backgrounds and from the local town and surrounding villages.

A PBL school, we are proud of our school expectations of Care, Achievement, Respect, Effort and Responsibility. The school is highly regarded and provides opportunities for all students through a range of academic, cultural, sporting, creative and performing arts and social experiences.

A systematic program of building community partnerships has led to many innovative programs for students. We offer educational excellence in an environment focused on student wellbeing. Information regarding the school and its programs can be found by referring to the School Improvement Plan, Annual Report and other documents on the GHS website: https://gloucester-h.schools.nsw.gov.au/.

This position is for a full-time Mandatory Technology and Industrial Technology Timber teacher, years 7 - 12. 

• Approval to teach Technology Mandatory Stage 4
• Approval to teach Industrial Technology Stages 5 & 6 (Subjects: ITW Industrial Technology-Timber)
• Demonstrated effective classroom management and well-being practices to build positive learning outcomes
• Demonstrated capacity to plan, implement and deliver innovative teaching programs to differentiate learning and engage students.
• Demonstrated high levels of communication and interpersonal skills to work collaboratively with students, teachers, parents and the wider school community.

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.

Successful applicants may be eligible to a relocation support payment of up to $8,000.

Applicants seeking either permanent full time or permanent part time employment are encouraged to apply for this position. If the recommended applicant is seeking permanent part time employment (FTE from 0.1 to 0.9 inclusive), they will be offered an appointment at their desired FTE. Applicants on the eligibility list will be offered the remaining FTE but are not obliged to accept. Further information can be found on the merit selection webpage.

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 (dandi@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.