Careers at CSPD

• 2 Point Coordinator

• Permanent, full-time opportunity

• Supportive, vibrant and active school community

Summary

St Patrick’s is a Catholic Parish school for girls and boys from Kindergarten to Year 6. It is situated in a quiet, natural setting conducive to quality learning and teaching. Our mission is to celebrate a multi-cultural, Christ-centred community, where all members collaborate to provide a safe environment that nurtures every student. 

About the Opportunity

We are looking for a passionate Primary Teacher (Leader of Learning, Maths or English - 2 Point Coordinator) to work on an ongoing full-time basis from Term 1, 2025. This is a fantastic opportunity to create engaging and creative learning environments in a supportive and fulfilling community.  

About You

You are a progressive, globally-minded educator committed to excellence in teaching and inspiring students to achieve their academic and personal goals. More specifically you:

• Have knowledge on how to structure lessons to meet the physical, social and intellectual development and characteristics of students. You also have extensive knowledge of the content and sequence of Key Learning Areas, including Religious Education.

• Understand the fundamental concepts, structure and enquiry processes relevant to programs you develop and teach. You understand what constitutes effective, developmentally appropriate strategies in your learning and teaching programs and use this knowledge to make the content meaningful to students.

• Create and maintain safe, inclusive and challenging learning environments and implement fair and equitable behaviour management plans. As a strong teacher, you evaluate all aspects of your teaching practice to ensure you are meeting the learning needs of your students. You interpret and use student assessment data to diagnose barriers to learning and to challenge students to improve their performance.

• Operate effectively at all stages of the teaching and learning cycle, including planning for learning and assessment, developing learning programs, teaching, assessing, providing feedback on student learning and reporting to parents/carers. 

• Value opportunities to engage with your school communities within and beyond the classroom to enrich the educational context for students and work to promote the links between school, home and community in the social and intellectual development of your students.

Please respond to the above selection criteria in your cover letter. Candidates are required to include in their resumes the details of three referees, including the Parish Priest from your Parish of worship.

Qualifications and Accreditations

To be successful in this highly rewarding role you will demonstrate alignment to the core purpose and values of St Patrick’s Primary along with:

• Compliance with NSW Child Protection Legislation - Working with Children Check clearance

• Eligibility to teach in NSW according to the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA)

• Tertiary Qualification (minimum 4-year degree, or 75% complete)

• Statements of Service 

• Sound knowledge of and commitment to our Catholic faith and mission in Catholic education.  

Benefits

There are so many great things that CSPD has to offer! As a valued CSPD employee, you can benefit from up to 25% off school fees for your children enrolled in our schools. This discount can also be claimed by staff members who are grandparents, step-parents, carers, or guardians.

But that's not all. We also offer:

• Competitive remuneration

• Salary packaging 

• Wellbeing initiatives and resources

• Flexible work arrangements for eligible employees 

• Extensive growth and development opportunities 

• Cultural leave for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employees

• State-of-the-art facilities 

Interested?

This position involves working with children. The appointment of successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory employment screening for child-related employment including a valid Working with Children Check and adoption and compliance with CSPD’s Child Safeguarding Procedures and Code of Conduct When Working With Students and Children. For more information, please visit The Office of The Children’s Guardian here.

Applicants wishing to work in any of  the schools within the Diocese, either as a casual, temporary or full time employee, must be classified with the CSPD.  If you are not already classified, you will need to complete the online registration for teachers process found on the CSPD website.

CSPD promotes the safety and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, and children from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, as well as people from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds.  

Apply today!