Careers at CSPD

** Temporary role (12 months)- commencing Term 1, 2025

The School 

St Joseph's Primary is a vibrant and contemporary school offering quality education for students. They are a School that models themselves on their patrons, St Joseph and St Mary MacKillop - who showed kindness, helped others, stood up for what was right and made positive choices.
St Joseph’s Primary welcomes applications from primary teachers who believe in the message of these patrons. It is the quality of our teachers that makes all the difference! We want you!

The Organisation 

St Joseph's Primary is proud to be part of the Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta (CSPD). The Diocese is a system of 83 schools with over 5000 employees, committed to responding to the needs of students in a world that is changing rapidly. We are always on the lookout for top talent to help us achieve our strategic goal of inspiring the future, through quality catholic schooling and by strengthening the professional lives of our employees.

The Benefits 

There are so many great things that St Joseph’s Primary to offer! As a valued SJP employee, you can benefit from up to 25% off school fees for your children enrolled in our school. But that's not all. We offer:

• Competitive remuneration

• Wellbeing initiatives and resources

• Extensive growth and development opportunities 

• Cultural leave for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander employees

• State-of-the-art facilities 

The successful candidate

The successful candidate will:

• Have an understanding of contemporary approaches for primary years learners 

• Have Knowledge of the content and sequence of Key Learning Areas

• Be knowledgeable on a variety of online and multimedia programs to support student learning 

• Have the ability to make content meaningful to students at different levels

• Have a willingness to learn and a commitment to your own professional development

• Have well-developed communication, administration and interpersonal skills

• Have a natural aptitude and drive to work with and within a collaborative team environment

• Structure lessons to meet the physical, social and intellectual development and characteristics of each student 

• Create and maintain a safe, inclusive and challenging learning environment and implement fair and equitable behaviour management plans. 

• Interpret and use student assessment data to diagnose barriers to learning and to challenge students to improve their performance 

• Effectively manage the learning cycle, including planning for learning and assessment, developing learning programs, teaching, assessing and  providing feedback on student learning and reporting to parents/carers 

• Engage with our school community within and beyond the classroom to enrich the educational context for students
  
  

The Qualifications:

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

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

• Valid Working with Children Check (for employment purposes)
  
  

Interested?

Apply today!

This position involves working with children. The appointment of successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory employment screening for child-related employment including the completion of a National Police Check, retention of a valid Working with Children Check. For more information, please visit The Office of The Children’s Guardian here.

CSPD promotes the safety and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and those 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.