Commencement Date: Term 3, 2026 - 20 July 2026
Employment Type: Term-Time, Permanent (school terms only)
Hours: 48 hours per week (Monday to Friday). Payment for hours of work will be averaged over the calendar year, based on 38 hours per week averaged across 52 weeks.
Salary: Boarding Supervisor - $36.94 gross per hour + 12.75% Super
Closing Date for Applications: 5.00pm, Friday 17 July 2026 (unless filled prior)
Please note that applications for this role may be reviewed as they are received. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible if you are interested in this opportunity.
The College is an initiative of the Diocese of Cairns and Catholic Education Services. The College offers individualised and flexible multiyear secondary education programs for young people disengaged from mainstream schooling. The College provides a variety of innovative teaching and learning practices that acknowledges young people’s complex education and social needs and empowers them to identify and pursue individual transition to adulthood, further education, employment, back to a mainstream school setting and importantly a connection to the community. Staff at the College will be multi-disciplinary in response to the diverse needs of young people and their families.
The College is a registered Special Assistance School across three campuses located within Edmonton. Manoora and the main campus in Cooktown. Cooktown has an enrolment for 38 young people in. The Cooktown campus includes a 32-bed years 7 to 12 residential unit for weekly and full-time boarders. While Manoora and Edmonton provide alternative educational pathways via day schooling for young people in years 7 to 12.
Young people who attend Holy Spirit College include Indigenous and non-Indigenous young people disengaged from mainstream education for a range of reasons including:
For further information about the role, please download the Position Description 
231208 Boarding Supervisor Holy Spirit College.pdf
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Terry Parsons - Head of Boarding
Holy Spirit College, Cooktown Campus
P: 07 4082 1900
E: secretary.holyspirit@cns.catholic.edu.au
Intending applicants must be fully committed to creating and maintaining a child safe organisation.
To understand our commitment and initiatives to truth telling, healing and reconciliation view our Reconciliation Action Plan
Catholic Education is an equal opportunity employer.IDNP
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