**Position Information**:
Robert Townson High School (FOEI 124) services the communities of Raby, Bow Bowing, Varroville and St Andrews. Our school celebrates diversity, including approximately 30 students within our Hearing Impairment Unit as well as students from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. We have approximately 790 students with 42% of the school population from English as an Additional Language/Dialect (EAL/D) backgrounds and 60 Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander students.
We have been able to develop and maintain significantly positive partnerships with our local TAFEs, universities across Sydney, local historical and cultural institutions, businesses (particularly in the area of engagement and vocational education) along with other community groups. Within the local government areas there is a myriad of choice in the areas of Sports and Arts. This sees some of our students represent Robert Townson High School across the local and regional areas as well as occasionally across the State.
**Selection Criteria**:
- Approval to teach secondary library or currently undertaking or currently enrolled in Teacher Librarian qualifications approved by the NSW Department of Education (Refer special notes below).
- High level technology skills with the capacity to develop and maintain a modern, innovative library that supports and inspires teaching and learning across the entire school.
- Demonstrated strong interpersonal and communication skills and capacity to collaborate with colleagues to create teaching and learning experiences that promote collaboration, critical and creative thinking and digital literacy.
- Strong classroom management skills, wellbeing practices, and the capacity to embed ICT into pedagogical practice, to meet the educational needs of a highly diverse school community.
- Capacity to establish effective programs in collaboration with school teams to support student wellbeing and achievement and which are aligned with the School Improvement Plan.
**Conditions**:
**Special Notes**:
If applicable engagement will be temporary until successful completion of the Teacher Librarian qualifications as recognised by the NSW Department of Education, which must be completed within 24 months
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