Teacher - Bowen

Job No: BOWTE001
Location: Bowen
Employment Status: Full-time, Continuing
No. of Vacancies: 1
Closing Date: 14 Apr 2025 AEST

Teacher - Townsville Flexible School - Bowen

  • This role is based at the Bowen Campus.
  • Continuing, Full-time
  • Start date to be negotiated as soon as possible with successful candidate

ABOUT US

The Townsville Flexible School offers a full-time and multiyear secondary education program for young people who have disengaged from mainstream schooling. Young people typically express a broad range of complex education and social needs, and Flexible Schools respond with a variety of flexible and innovative teaching and learning practices, including vocational planning and the development of social connectedness. The Townsville Flexible School 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 Flexible School 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 each campus are employed through the Townsville Flexible School 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.

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

  • Edmund Rice Charism
  • Learn how to do school differently
  • Rental and relocation assistance may be negotiated
  • 12.75% Superannuation contribution
  • Salary sacrificing benefits, including FBT exempt payments of up to $15,900 p/a
  • Supportive multi-disciplinary team environment
  • Induction, wellbeing and ongoing professional development
  • Access to an Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

 

HOW TO APPLY (Please upload documents in PDF format)

To apply for a position, please complete the application form below. To support your application, you will be required to provide a current CV and Cover Letter highlighting your qualifications, experience and suitability for the role.

For a confidential conversation about the role, please contact Todd Alloway, Area Principal, EREA Flexible Schools Ltd., on 0427 590 597 or via email todd.alloway@flexi.edu.au


APPLICATIONS CLOSE 3PM (AEST) MONDAY 14 APRIL 2025.

The successful applicant must possess (or be eligible to obtain) and maintain a current Working with Children Check.

All applicants will be subject to EREA and legislative screening procedures. These checks are consistent with EREA’s commitment to child protection policies and procedures.

Edmund Rice Education Australia is committed to ensuring the safety, wellbeing and dignity of all children and young people.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply.

Edmund Rice Education Australia is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 

 

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Privacy Acknowledgment

EREA Flexi Schools Ltd is part of Edmund Rice Education Australia (EREA), which is an organisation consisting of schools, entities and offices offering a Catholic education in the tradition of Blessed Edmund Rice.

  1. EREA Flexi Schools Ltd school’s collects personal information, including sensitive information about job applicants. This includes information provided in your job application, in the course of conversation or as collected from third parties on your behalf, such as employment referees. The primary purpose of collecting this information is to enable the school to consider your application for employment with the school.
  2. Some of the information the school collects is to satisfy the school’s legal obligations, particularly to enable the school to discharge its duty of care to enrolled students.
  3. Laws governing or relating to the operation of a school require certain information to be collected and disclosed. These include relevant Education Acts and Public Health and Child Protection laws.
  4. In order to consider your application for employment and to facilitate and manage your employment relationship with the school, you consent to our collecting personal information about you from recruitment agencies, law enforcement agencies for criminal checks and working with children checks, educational institutions to verify your qualifications, and other individuals or businesses we contact for the purpose of reference-checking as agreed with you.
  5. The personal information that is collected about you will be stored securely in a recruitment record. If you are successful and become an employee then an employee record will be created and the personal information we have collected will be stored in this file. Employee records are exempt from the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) under the Privacy Act 1988.
  6. If you are not offered a position or if you decline an offer of a position at the school the information stored in your recruitment record will be stored for 12 months, unless you advise us to destroy the records at an earlier time. At this time, the school will take reasonable steps to destroy or de-identify the information as appropriate.
  7. The school may disclose personal and sensitive information for administrative, educational and support purposes (or may permit the information to be directly collected by third parties). This may include to: government departments; people providing administrative and financial services to the school; anyone you authorise the school to disclose information to; and anyone to whom the school is required or authorised to disclose the information to by law, including under child protection laws.
  8. Failure to provide the information to the school will affect the school’s ability to evaluate your application and may result in the recruitment process not proceeding.
  9. The school may also use cloud computing service providers to store personal information (which may include sensitive information) on their servers in the 'cloud'. These servers may be located in or outside Australia. This may mean that personal information may be stored or processed outside Australia.
  10. EREA’s Privacy Policy contains further information about its use of cloud and other third-party service providers.
  11. EREA’s Privacy Policy is accessible via the school website or from the school office. The Policy sets out how job applicants and employees may seek access to, and correction of their personal information which the school has collected and holds. However, access may be refused in certain circumstances such as where access would have an unreasonable impact on the privacy of others or may result in a breach of the School’s duty of care obligations. Any refusal will be notified in writing with reasons if appropriate.
  12. EREA’s Privacy Policy also sets out how job applicants and employees can make a complaint about a breach of the APPs and how the complaint will be handled.
  13. If you provide the school with the personal information of others, such as other employment referees, doctors or emergency contacts, we encourage you to inform them you are disclosing that information to the school and why, that they can request access to and correction of that information if they wish and to also refer them to EREA’s Privacy Policy for further detail about such requests and how the school otherwise handles personal information it collects and complaints it receives.

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Edmund Rice Education Australia

Edmund Rice Education Australia (EREA) Flexible Schools Ltd is a child safe organisation committed to the protection of children and has a zero tolerance of abuse of children. We are committed to ensuring the safety, wellbeing and dignity of all children and young people therefore, all applicants will be subject to EREA and legislative screening procedures.

These checks are consistent with EREA’s commitment to child safeguarding policies and procedures. This includes complying with our Child Safeguarding policy and code of conduct.
EREA Flexible Schools Ltd is an equal opportunity employer that promotes the safety and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.