Teacher - St Mary's Flexible School

Job No: STMTE03
Location: St Mary's
Employment Status: Full Time
No. of Vacancies: 1
Closing Date: 7 Jun 2025 AEST

Teacher - St Mary's Flexible School

ABOUT THE ORGANISATION

St Mary's Flexible School is a Catholic School in the Edmund Rice tradition. 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 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
St Mary’s Flexible School is a registered and accredited Special Assistance School with small class sizes which employs a multidisciplinary team including a youth worker for each class. We have an emphasis on high quality teaching and learning, wellbeing support, and delivering qualifications that empower young people.

When you choose to work with us you will be joining a community of educators working alongside young people towards positive and hope–filled futures. We are proud to work in an inclusive and diverse culture which provides a place and opportunity for young people to engage with learning and community. Our Flexible Learning School operates on a common ground basis where young people are supported to determine their own pathways.

Joining us means joining a nationally recognised provider of alternative education, with over 22 schools across the country with a wealth of practice, knowledge, and professional learning to access. As part of the Edmund Rice community, we hold the values of Presence, Liberation, and Compassion for all.

We are looking for a teacher to join our team for an immediate start or commencing start of the 2025 school year. This full-time position works collaboratively with our Head of Campus at our St Mary’s Flexible Learning School.

Our school regularly engages in outdoor education and promotes high community involvement. Across our varied timetable, we offer young people bush cooking, mountain bike riding, swimming, and even a gym membership at the local gym! If regular, class-based teaching isn’t lighting you up like it used to, it is time for a change, this job builds great long term community connection. This will challenge, excite, and ignite your desire to take young people on lofty leaps in their academic and personal development.

The Teacher reports to the Head of Campus and Area Principal. They have delegated responsibility to develop and maintain learning and social inclusion responses of the campus. This includes:

  • Planning, preparation and delivery of effective learning and teaching programs for young people.
  • Contributing to the development and implementation of the EREAFS objectives and planning.
  • Works collaboratively with all staff to provide a safe, inclusive work environment for staff and young people.
  • Is proactive in building relationships with young people, families/carers, and the community to ensure the best outcomes are achieved for each young person.

This position is continuing, full-time.

To read the full position description, please click HERE. 

Key Attributes and Experience  

  • Understanding of and commitment to the values of a Catholic educational system of schools in the Edmund Rice tradition.
  • Able to demonstrate the high-level communication, collaboration and interpersonal skills necessary to be successful in a complex and layered organisational structure.
  • Appropriate qualifications and relevant professional experience.
  • Ability to diagnose problems, foresee potential issues and devise appropriate responses.
  • Ability to lead, work in, and collaborate across teams with integrity and humility.
  • Tertiary Qualification in Teaching (Primary or Secondary)
  • Strong interpersonal skills with well-developed verbal and written communication skills.
  • Proficiency in computing software (especially Microsoft Word, Outlook and Excel) and the ability to develop skills in databases.
  • Ability to be flexible and respond to current needs as they occur
  • High organisational skills with the ability to prioritise work and remain multi-task focussed.
  • Ability to work in a team environment and to be supportive of others in the immediate work domain.
  • Hold a current Drivers Licence.
  • A positive NSW Working with Children Check (WWCC) (essential)
     

One or more specialist engagement skills from the following is highly desirable: 

  • Adventure based learning;
  • Sport;
  • Creative Arts;
  • Music; and/or,
  • Cultural knowledge 

 

WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU:

  • Edmund Rice charism
  • Learn how to do school differently
  • Enhanced Superannuation contribution options
  • Salary Sacrificing benefits, including FBT exempt payments of up to $15,900 p/a
  • Induction, wellbeing and ongoing professional development
  • Supportive multi-disciplinary team environment
  • Free EAP counselling services

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 Steph McConnell, Head of Campus, EREA Flexible Schools Ltd. on 0458 101 862 or via email steph.mcconnell@ereafsn.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.