Advertised Vacancy Number: IPS/TCH774694
Various Positions
Do you provoke, model, value and share your own world wonderings out loud? Are you a lifelong learner committed to developing your professional skills? Do you know your impact? Are you Trauma Informed? Are you a champion for your students? Do you want to be part of a dynamic collaborative team? If so, we want you!
Ocean Road Primary School (PS) are seeking to appoint two highly skilled and dedicated Junior Primary Teachers to join our successful team.
We currently have the following positions available:
- 2x - permanent full-time positions
All positions will commence Term 1, 2023
Ocean Road PS is a place where everyone is supported, accepted, and empowered to thrive.
We achieve this by:
- Building trusting relationships
- High expectations of success by focusing on individual strengths
- Best practise whole school programs
- Collective Teacher Efficacy
- Students, staff, and community agency
- Responsive and engaging inclusive learning environment
Ocean Road PS caters for over 630 students from broad ranging socio-economic backgrounds. Our core values of Kindness, Resilience, Responsibility and Respect, and our dedication to “Put Children First” underpins everything we do. The health and wellbeing of staff and students is paramount.
As a Junior Primary Teacher at Ocean Road PS, you should cultivate curiosity, make learning authentic, know the power of play and question students in a hands-on classroom that promotes critical and creative thinking. You will ideally create a play-based learning environment that incorporates problem solving and collaborative learning. You should deliver a high-quality education within the school’s expectations of implementing an inquiry-based learning environment.
Teachers at Ocean Road PS ideally have knowledge of, and are committed to:
- Research based teaching approaches
- Blended Pedagogy
- Creating 21st Century Learning Environments (Inquiry, Innovation and Critical and Creative Thinking)
- Instructional Intelligences (Classroom Management and Instructional Strategies)
- Visible Learning (Learning Intentions and Success Criteria; Four levels of Feedback; and Effect Sizes)
- Professional Learning Communities (Guided and Viable Curriculum and Collective Teacher Efficacy)
- Aboriginal and Cultural Standards Framework
- Three-Tiered Intervention
- Early Years Learning Framework
- National Quality Standard
- Play-based Learning
The successful applicant should build trusting quality relationships with students, families and staff. You will ideally have the skills to support and encourage students to achieve the aims outlined in the Western Australian curriculum. Knowledge and skills in the whole school program of Back to Front Maths and K2 Letters and Sounds would be advantageous. You will be responsible for delivering differentiated activities and modified programs for support and extension. The successful applicant will also work closely with external agencies ensuring all students experience success.
This selection process will initially be used to fill the above vacancy. Applicants assessed as suitable during this selection process may be considered for other similar vacancies that occur throughout our school for up to 12 months following this initial appointment. This includes circumstances where this position becomes subsequently vacant should the successful applicant decline or vacate the advertised position.
To be suitable for this role, you will need to demonstrate your competency against the following domains (that govern the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers):
- Professional knowledge;
- Professional practice; and
- Professional engagement.
Applications will be assessed against these domains. The business needs of the school may also be considered. It is therefore recommended that you consider all information contained in the advertisement and any other related information before applying for the vacancy.
Applicants currently completing the Department of Education Leap program (formerly known as the Switch program) can apply for vacancies using their current or Leap qualification – even if they have not completed the program at the time of applying. Applicants may be appointed to a vacancy based on the qualification being completed via the Leap program.
The Department is an equal opportunity employer and encourages people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and persons from culturally diverse backgrounds to apply.
Further information about Ocean Road PS can be found by visiting oceanroadps.wa.edu.au or Schools Online
Additional information about Independent Public Schools is also available here.
Appointed applicants may be eligible for Recognition of Experience and Qualifications
For further job related information:
Please contact Dean Finlay, Principal, by telephoning 0439 966 275 or emailing Dean.Finlay@education.wa.edu.au
During the school holiday period, please contact Dean Finlay on 0439 966 275.
Application Instructions
All applications are submitted online. Select “Apply for Job”, at either the top or bottom of this screen and follow the instructions on your screen.
Your application should include:
- A three (3) page statement addressing the domains that govern the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers, in context of the role and business needs of the school
- A CV of up to three (3) pages outlining your employment history and professional learning summary relevant to this position
- The contact details for two (2) work related referees who can attest to the claims made in your written application, preferably one being your current line manager.
It is recommended you have these documents completed and ready to attach before selecting “Apply for Job”.
You are asked to complete an online application form and attach your documentation, please allow enough time to complete this process as applications cannot be accepted after the closing date and time.
After you have submitted your application online, you will receive an email confirming lodgement. If you do not receive a confirmation email, please telephone (08) 9264 4127.
If you are having difficulty submitting your online application, please telephone (08) 9264 8666 for assistance.
ELIGIBILITY
Employees will be required to:
- provide evidence of eligibility to work in Australia for the term of the vacancy;
- obtain a current Department of Education Criminal Record Clearance prior to commencement of employment;
- obtain or hold a current Working with Children Check;
- meet the Department of Education Teacher Qualifications and Registration requirements; and
- complete the Department’s Aboriginal Cultural Appreciation course.
TRAINING
Employees will be required to:
- complete the Department’s induction program within three months of commencement; and
- complete any training specific to this role required by Departmental policy.
The Department applies a four (4) day breach period to this selection process.
Applications must be submitted before 4.30pm (WST) on Friday, 21 October 2022.
APPLICATIONS MUST BE SUBMITTED ONLINE
PROFORMA, FAXED, HAND DELIVERED, POSTED, EMAILED AND LATE APPLICATIONS ARE NOT ACCEPTED.