Education Assistant - Special Needs - Geraldton Flexible School

Job No: GFSEASN02
Location: Geraldton
Employment Status: Full time
No. of Vacancies: 1
Closing Date: 27 Jun 2025 AWST

Education Assistant - Special Needs - Geraldton Flexible School

  • Continuing, Term-time (full-time during term-time)
  • As soon as can be negotiated 

 
ABOUT THE ORGANISATION:
Geraldton Flexible School is a Catholic School in the Edmund Rice tradition. There are 23 Flexible Schools 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 flexible schools 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.

ABOUT THE ROLE
The Education Assistant – Special Needs (EA) reports to the Head of Campus or to their delegation and has responsibility to support and maintain learning and social inclusion responses of the site. This includes but not limited to:

  • Assist Teachers with the delivery of effective learning and teaching programs for young people in both middle and senior phases of secondary education.
  • Contributing to the development and implementation of the FLC’s objectives and planning.
  • Support a teacher in the delivery of targeted, intensive literacy and numeracy programs.
  • Work one-on-one and in small groups with Young People to support their learning.
  • Contribute to the Individual Education Plan (IEP) by collecting evidence (particularly for NCCD adjustments).
  • Undertake administrative duties such as the preparation of resources for the Young People and as required by the classroom teacher.
  • Provide educational and wellbeing support to the young people of the campus including engagement programs, camps and electives
  • Support staff in providing resources for activities/programs for young people.
  • Work collaboratively and are supported by Teachers, Youth Workers, and the leadership team to provide a safe, conductive work environment.
  • Operate within the context of ERAFSN Policies and Procedures.

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ABOUT YOU

  • A minimum of 3-5 years’ experience with disenfranchised youth, in an education setting – highly desirable
  • WA Working with Children Card – essential
  • A current unrestricted driver’s license and willingness to drive a bus – essential
  • Knowledge of the causes of educational disengagement and barriers young people face
  • Experience in supporting young people in literacy and numeracy programs.
  • Ability to role model and provide a positive influence for all young people.
  • Capacity to establish and maintain effective interpersonal relationships to work effectively and collaboratively as a member of a multidisciplinary team as a team member to achieve positive outcomes.
  • Willingness to undertake professional development and to pursue continuous improvement.
  • Organised and able to work independently to achieve the goals of the role.
  • Capacity to work within timelines and to complete assigned tasks within set timeframe.
  • Demonstrated capacity to work effectively in a challenging and unpredictable environment.
  • Current qualifications or willingness to work towards gaining relevant qualifications.

 

WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU:

  • Edmund Rice Charism
  • Learn how to do school differently
  • 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 Jessica Crook, Acting Head of Campus at Geraldton Flexible School, EREA Flexible Schools Ltd., via jess.crook@flexi.edu.au.

 

Applications will be reviewed and shortlisted as they are received.

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.