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Job Title:  Year 5 Teacher
Posting Start Date:  04/11/2025
Posting End Date:  18/11/2025
Job Description: 

Year 5 Teacher

If you are currently employed by Catholic Schools Parramatta Diocese, please submit your application via our internal Careers Site on EmployeeConnect. We are excited to support you in the next step of your career.

The School

St Finbar's is proud to be part of Catholic Schools Parramatta Diocese's system of 80 Catholic primary and secondary schools operating across Western Sydney and the Blue Mountains providing more than 46,000 students with a high-quality, low fee Catholic education.

Our school is a welcoming, safe and innovative learning community for local students and their families. Enrolling at St Finbar's is a chance for your family to be part of our story too!

About the Opportunity

St Finbar's Primary is seeking a skilled and passionate Year 5 Teacher to be part of our school community and enrich the lives of our students, commencing Term 1, 2026. 

 

The Benefits

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

  • Competitive remuneration

  • Wellbeing initiatives and resources

  • Cultural leave for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander employees

  • State-of-the-art facilities

The Successful Candidate

  • Have a sound knowledge of and commitment to our Catholic faith and mission in Catholic education. 

  • Inspire a love of learning in their students

  • Be engaging and innovative

  • Demonstrate a commitment to unleashing the potential of each student

  • Be committed to the continual improvement of your teaching practice and receptive to opportunities for personal and professional development.

  • Have active listening skills and the ability to engage with and build strong positive relationships with members of the school community including employees, students and parents 

  • Have the ability to cater for students with diverse backgrounds, needs and abilities

  • Maintain industry currency, sharing their passion for learning

  • Structure lessons to meet the physical, social and intellectual development and characteristics of your students 

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

  • Evaluate all aspects of your teaching practice to ensure you are meeting the learning needs of each student 

  • 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, providing feedback on student learning and reporting to parents/carers

  • Please address the above criteria in your cover letter

The Qualifications

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

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

  • Tertiary Qualification in Education 

  • Statements of Service

Interested?

Apply today!

If you are determined to make a difference and want to join a diverse organisation committed to transforming lives through faith-based education, click on the APPLY button.

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. 

Diversity Statement

CSPD strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, as well as people from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds.
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