Register your interest to be a Senior Educator with our department for short term vacancies at various locations.

Your registration of interest will be valid until 31 January 2025.

About the role

Student Support Services works with schools and preschools to provide support to help meet the needs of all children. The role requires the incumbent to positively lead and participate in the ongoing development and review of a service model that supports the provision of integrated, proactive and targeted services to sites to assist them in meeting the needs of children and young people with additional needs.

The trend of increasing learner complexity is well documented in the literature. Increasing numbers of children and young people are being identified with complex learning difficulties and disabilities often with co-existing conditions such as autism, attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder. Increasing numbers of children are in schools who have difficulties arising from premature birth, have survived infancy due to advances in medical interventions, have rare neurological disorders or foetal alcohol syndrome. Behavioural issues are becoming increasingly more challenging and complex with a range of co-morbidity factors (including mental health) that require skills and expertise to identify underlying causes to better address the needs of the children and young people.

The Senior Educator provides delegated line management, professional support and supervision to special educators, special educators (hearing) and behaviour support coaches and works with children and young people with developmental, cognitive, social, emotional, behavioural and physical difficulties, and exceptional needs (including giftedness) and their families. The Senior Educator is placed in a team and works closely with the Team Manager, other senior educators, special educators, special educators (hearing), behaviour support coaches, other Student Support Services Staff, preschool and school staff, and parents to develop evidence based interventions that include proactive, targeted and intensive strategies that can be adapted for learning and home contexts. This position will have a greater focus on proactive whole site and partnership approaches.

The role requires the recruitment, retention, induction and professional support, development and supervision of inclusive educators, special educators (hearing) and behaviour support educators with a focus on meeting professional and service delivery standards.

See the Senior Educator job description (PDF 1 MB) for more information.

Eligibility

Applicants must hold a current full teacher registration to teach in South Australia. If not permanent with the Education Department, applicants must meet the department's minimum teacher employment requirements before taking up an appointment.

How to apply

See the:

• Senior Educator registration of interest form (DOCX 978 KB)
• applying for jobs in the Department for Education (DOCX 75 KB)

for information on how to apply.