Leighland Christian School Ulverstone - Primary Teacher Grade 5/6

Leigh­land Chris­t­ian School is a thriv­ing, com­mu­ni­ty-cen­tred non-denom­i­na­tion­al, inde­pen­dent Chris­t­ian School of approx­i­mate­ly 650+ stu­dents, with a K‑6 Cam­pus at Burnie and a K‑12 Cam­pus at Ulverstone.

The suc­cess­ful applicant/​s will be respon­si­ble for:

• Deliv­er­ing teach­ing of bib­li­cal per­spec­tives inte­grat­ed in each sub­ject area.

• Will­ing to work in a high­ly effec­tive team, to plan col­lab­o­ra­tive­ly, team teach.

• An under­stand­ing or will­ing­ness to learn PBL and Design Think­ing pedagogy.

• Col­lab­o­rat­ing and pos­i­tive­ly con­tribut­ing to the teach­ing and learn­ing cul­ture of the school.

• Strength­en­ing home/​school part­ner­ships where par­ents’ sup­port is val­ued and encour­aged in the belief that there will be improved learn­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties and qual­i­ty out­comes for students.

• Imple­ment­ing a hands-on cur­ricu­lum based on the Aus­tralian Cur­ricu­lum that invites stu­dents explo­ration and reflects a com­mit­ment to per­son­alised learning.

• Out­stand­ing class­room prac­tice and com­pre­hen­sive expe­ri­ence using Infor­ma­tion Tech­nol­o­gy with­in a teach­ing and learn­ing program.

• Fos­ter­ing and main­tain­ing the well­be­ing of stu­dents in a Chris­t­ian edu­ca­tion environment.

The suc­cess­ful applicant/​s will have:

• Proven com­mit­ment to Chris­t­ian faith includ­ing active/​regular involve­ment in a church.
  
  
• A good under­stand­ing of and com­mit­ment to the mis­sion and phi­los­o­phy of the school.
  
  
• Well-devel­oped inter­per­son­al and com­mu­ni­ca­tion skills, with the abil­i­ty to inter­act effec­tive­ly with a range of school com­mu­ni­ty members.
  
  
• A com­mit­ment to the pro­vi­sion of equal oppor­tu­ni­ty in edu­ca­tion for all students.
  
  
• Cur­rent Tas­man­ian Teach­ers Reg­is­tra­tion (or the abil­i­ty to obtain one).
  
  
• A cur­rent Work­ing with Vul­ner­a­ble Peo­ple card.
  
  
• A writ­ten ref­er­ence from a pastor/​minister.

Please address the above cri­te­ria in your appli­ca­tion and refer to the Base Teacher State­ment for fur­ther infor­ma­tion.

Please sub­mit your appli­ca­tion online via the fol­low­ing link, to the Posi­tions Vacant sec­tion of the school web­site:

https://​www​.leigh​land​.tas​.edu.…

Please indi­cate which posi­tion you are apply­ing for.

A copy of the Work­ing at Leigh­land doc­u­ment, Base Teacher State­ment, Edu­ca­tion­al Creed, and the State­ment of Faith are also avail­able from this link.

Leigh­land Chris­t­ian School is a child safe employ­er and is com­mit­ted to the wel­fare of chil­dren and their pro­tec­tion. All poten­tial employ­ees and vol­un­teers will be required to com­ply with the School’s Child Safe Pol­i­cy and Code of Con­duct.

Please con­tact Ash­leigh Hamil­ton, Human Resources, on (03) 6425 0999 or email humanresources@​leighland.​tas.​edu.​au if you have any questions.

Clos­ing date for appli­ca­tions: 3pm Wednes­day 1 May 2024

** We will be assess­ing appli­ca­tions as they are sub­mit­ted, there­fore if you are short­list­ed you may be called for an inter­view before the clos­ing date on the advertisement. **