We would like to humbly acknowledge the Wulgurukaba, Bindal, and Juru peoples on whose land our school is located, or staff and young people live on and travel across daily.

ABOUT THE ORGANISATION:

Townsville Flexible School with campuses at Bowen and Burdekin is a Catholic School in the Edmund Rice tradition. There are 22 Flexible School (FS) throughout Australia who offer a full-time and multiyear secondary education program for young people who have disengaged from mainstream schooling. Enrolled young people may express a broad range of complex education and social needs and FS respond with a variety of flexible and innovative teaching and learning practices including vocational planning and the development of social connectedness.

The purpose of a Flexible School is to provide young people with a varied and holistic set of learning experiences supporting them to identify and pursue an individual transition to adulthood, employment, further education and training and social connectedness.

The Townsville FS was established in 2006 to meet the needs of the local community. In 2019 the Burdekin and Bowen Educational Engagement Programs were established after many years of local consultation. These new programs are campuses of the Townsville FS and run programs for grades 7-10. We are expected to grow from one class group to several in the next few years.

ABOUT THE PROGRAM AND ROLE:

The young people who attend our programs have typically experienced significant detachment from education and social inclusion and may be involved with the Department of Youth Justice and/or Children Safety.

The workers of the each campus are employed through the Townsville FS and based in the local community. There are strong working relationships between the campuses and travel between them may be required. The daily program with young people will include on site and off site activities. Each program will work intensively with a small group of young people to prepare them to access further training, educational and vocational opportunities. This role is based at the Bowen FS Campus.

We are seeking a Teacher to join our community with a start date of 21 January 2025.

You will be required to: 

• Maintain and build effective working relationships with local custodians, local schools, government and non-government agencies, private providers and community members.
• Develop and implement learning choices (curriculum) which support the individual learning plans of each young person.
• Participate in program provision to ensure wellbeing in an inclusive learning environment.
• Contribute to the establishment and maintenance of a supportive school environment.
• Participate in professional development that is relevant to the work of the campus - this may include the need to travel to Townsville or Brisbane.
• Contribute to the accountability processes including, reporting, individual personal learning plans and requirements for NCCD.
• Work in and as part of a multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary supportive learning team.
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ABOUT YOU:

• Current QCT Registration (Primary or Secondary).
• Appreciate the peace and beauty of a small town that is still close to a major centre.
• Have a passion for working with young people and making a difference to their world by bringing education to where the young people are at.
• Highly developed interpersonal skills in the context of relating to work colleagues, young people and parents in a cross-cultural environment. In particular, demonstrated success in building relationships with young people, families and community. 
• Proven ability to work autonomously and in an integrated manner as a member of a small multi-disciplinary team. 
• Commitment to participate in critical reflection around working together under four principles of operation: Respect, Safe and Legal, Honesty and Participation as a means to resolve conflict, negotiate learning, recognize rights, responsibilities and consequences. 
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience of working within QCAA/QCEC/EREA requirements, accountabilities and processes. 
• Current Queensland Driver’s Licence. 

WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU:

• A different way to do school
• Supportive multi-disciplinary team environment
• Relocation assistance 
• Options for salary packaging
• Enhanced superannuation benefits
• Induction, wellbeing and ongoing professional development
• Free EAP counselling services

 
APPLICATION PROCESS:

Contact Todd Alloway 0427 590 597 Area Principal to discuss all of the benefits of living and working in this community.

All applications for this position will be submitted to screening procedures as detailed in the Working with Children (Risk Management and Screening) legislation and the Education (Queensland College of Teachers) Act 2005. These checks are consistent with Edmund Rice Education Australia’s commitment to the protection of children and young people in their care.