Teacher -Ipswich Flexible School

Job No: IPSTE03
Location: Ipswich
Employment Status: Full- Time
Closing Date: 20 Dec 2024 AEST

ABOUT THE ORGANISATION:
Ipswich Flexible School is a Catholic School in the Edmund Rice tradition with approximately 100 young people enrolled. There are 22 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 FLCs 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 Schools 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:
Ipswich Flexible Schools is looking for an energetic and creative person to compliment an existing team.

This position is continuing, full-time, commencing as soon as negotiated.

The successful applicant will:

  • Plan, prepare and deliver Australian curriculum with a focus on literacy and numeracy skills for young people with a history of disengagement from schooling who are typically working at an upper primary, middle school level.
  • Contribute to the development and implementation of the FLC’s objectives and planning.
  • Contribute to the establishment and maintenance of a supportive school environment.
  • Work alongside an expert adventure-based learning coordinator to deliver group programmes.
  • Strong focus on integrated learning, with an emphasis on transferable skills from the Human capabilities framework
  • 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.
  • Small class group.
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ABOUT YOU:

  • Bachelor of Education or similar and current QCT Registration 
  • Genuine interest and experience in developing and implementing a range of learning choices to meet the diverse needs and learning styles of young people supporting positive educational and social outcomes. 
  • 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 at risk. 
  • Proven ability to work autonomously and in an integrated manner as a member of a 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. 

Desirable: 

  • Certificate IV in Training & Assessment (TAE40116 CERTIFICATE).
  • Experience teaching QCAA Short Courses and Applied Subjects, VET, or in a flexible learning environment will be highly desirable.
  • Skills, training and qualifications in Trauma Informed Practice 
  • Outdoor Education experience and qualifications
  • Design Technology 

WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU:

  • Learn how to do school differently
  • Free onsite parking
  • Supportive multi-disciplinary team environment
  • Options for salary packaging
  • 12.75% Super Contribution
  • Induction, wellbeing and ongoing professional development
  • Free EAP counselling services

 
APPLICATION PROCESS:

Applications will be reviewed as they are received. Do not delay in applying for this wonderful opportunity to join our team!

To apply for this role please provide the following documents:

  • Cover letter addressed to Dave Capra, Area Principal, outlining your suitability for this position and reasons for applying for the position.
  • Curriculum vitae outlining relevant work history including contact details of at least three referees including your current employer.

  Please contact Moanna-Maree Duncan, Head of Campus (07 3447 9310) should you have any questions.

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.

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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.