Learning Support Teacher jobs in New South Wales

Teaching Service

Tamworth High School is a comprehensive co-educational high school of approximately 714 students, with around 47% identifying as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. The school serves students from south and west Tamworth and surrounding rural communities, on the ancestral lands of the Gomeroi people.

The school places strong emphasis on high-quality teaching, inclusion, student wellbeing, and collective responsibility for student growth. Staff work collaboratively to ensure every student is known, valued and cared for, with a focus on reading, numeracy, attendance, engagement, and successful post-school pathways.

Tamworth High School has a strong Learning and Support Team that works with students, families, classroom teachers, support staff, school counsellors, external agencies, and the wider school community. The team supports students with disability and additional learning needs through personalised learning and support planning, reasonable adjustments, targeted intervention, case management, and regular review of student progress.

The successful applicant will work as part of a whole-school learning and support model to strengthen inclusive practice across mainstream classes. The role involves supporting teachers to identify and respond to student learning needs, planning and reviewing adjustments, delivering targeted literacy and numeracy intervention, supporting Individual Learning Plans and Life Skills programs, and contributing to NCCD, transition, wellbeing, and attendance processes.

The school has a strong focus on evidence-informed practice, explicit teaching, data-informed decision making, and collaborative professional learning. The successful applicant will contribute to ongoing improvement in student engagement, independence, learning, and wellbeing, while helping build staff capacity to meet the needs of diverse learners.

Further information about the school is available at http://www.tamworth-h.schools.nsw.edu.au

An unconditional full approval to teach is a requirement. If you do not hold a full approval to teach with the NSW Department of Education, you are required to commence the application process at the same time as you apply for this teaching opportunity.

If you are new or returning to the Department of Education and have relevant prior professional experience, you can submit a Salary determination for classroom teachers application form to request a salary determination. Until the outcome of any such determination is confirmed, your salary offer will remain at Step 1 then be updated at a later date (typically a 1–2 week processing time post receipt of the form). For further details on this process, please see the Department’s policy here: Salary determination.

The roles and responsibilities for the Learning and Support Teacher can be found here.

https://education.nsw.gov.au/schooling/parents-and-carers

Applicants are to include details of their WWCC clearance number as part of this application.

About the NSW Department of Education

The Department of Education is the largest provider of public education in Australia with responsibility for delivering high-quality public education to two-thirds of the NSW student population. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, including but not limited to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, people of any age or gender, people from culturally and linguistically diverse groups and/or from the LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, refugees, people with disability, people with sensory differences, and neurodiverse people. If we can make some adjustments to our recruitment/interview process to better help you shine, please reach out to the contact person for this recruitment, details listed above. For more information, visit the NSW Department of Education’s Diversity, equity and inclusion webpage.

Merit selection application guidelines for classroom teachers, executives and principals provide clear advice for applicants and selection panels. The guidelines are available here.

To meet the page limits outlined in the guidelines, all application attachments must be submitted in PDF format. Please note that late applications will not be accepted.