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Position of Leadership – Learning Leader - St Therese's School, Bentley Park

  • 494560
  • Cairns
  • St Therese's School - Bentley Park
  • School Leadership
  • Full time - Fixed Term
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Position of Leadership - Learning Leader

Commencement Date: Monday 21st April 2025

Employment Type: Full time, Fixed Term Leadership Position (3 years)

This position holds a substantive permanent teaching position within Catholic Education, Diocese of Cairns.

Salary Range: Graduate $84,077 to Proficient 8 $121,092 FTE gross pa + 5 PPoL Points ($15,810 gross pa) 

Closing Date for Applications: 7am, Friday 28th February 2025

St Therese's School, Bentley Park

St Therese's Parish School is an integral part of the Cairns Diocese and the Edmonton Parish. Located just 20 minutes south of Cairns City, St Therese's provides Catholic Education to an area that is currently referred to as the 'growth corridor' of Cairns.  The first Catholic school in Edmonton, Edmonton Convent School, was established by the Sisters of Mercy on the 29th April, 1929, with an enrolment of just 30 students. Its original location was on the Bruce Highway in the small township of Edmonton - an area that had been originally established as a sugar-milling town to serve the many surrounding sugarcane farms. Since those early days, the school has undergone many changes in its history and was renamed in 1965 to that of St Therese's School.  In 1995, the school was relocated to its current position where it has continued to grow in order to meet the growing enrolment numbers that have resulted from the development of residential areas south of the city. Today, it has an enrolment of approximately 620 students, Prep to Year 6. The school is proud of its rich historical story as well as the modern facilities that are now available to students, enabling a holisitic and quality educational learning environment. 2011 saw the completion of the school master plan following $5.5 million in combined capital projects undertaken as part of the Building the Education Revolution and planned facilities expansion.

About the Role

The Learning Leader is a Primary Position of Leadership (PPOL), with an allocation of 5 POL points, is responsible for ensuring quality assurance for curriculum, assessment and reporting at St Therese’s School, focusing on promoting and driving a learning culture and continuous improvement in student learning outcomes. As a member of the leadership team, the role requires that the Learning Leader models and embraces the Catholic ethos and identity of the school community, integrating beliefs and values into all facets of their role.
 
The Learning Leader will work as an effective member of teams within the system, ie the school leadership team, system consultants and leaders, fostering a culture of positive accountability between colleagues. This middle leader will ensure alignment of essential duties and responsibilities with strategic and operational goals of the school and system, teacher planning expectations, evaluation and review cycles.
 

Typical duties performed may include, but are not limited to:

  • Work is completed in a timely manner, and performed to a highly advanced quality standard
  • Fostering a strong professional learning culture, leading opportunities that focus on building staff capacity
    in evidence-based processes and strategies to improve student outcomes
  • Fostering a culture of positive accountability between colleagues by providing timely and regular updates
    to the line manager, leadership team and year level cohorts
  • Monitoring, implementing, coordinating, maintaining and reviewing the Learning Framework and the
    school curriculum documents
  • Delivering induction to new teaching staff, providing observations and feedback, on all matters pertaining
    to student learning
  • Managing and reports expenditure against an agreed budget
  • Managing school subscriptions associated with learning and teaching, and monitoring usage and
    effectiveness of programs, including digital applications, to improve student learning outcomes
  • Developing and building capacity of staff to design and construct a comprehensive range of quality
    assessment tasks and associated marking guides
  • Partnering with classroom teachers, to support the design and implementation of classroom strategies
    that promote student engagement and achievement
  • Actively collaborating with teaching staff to embed cross curriculum priorities and general capabilities in
    curriculum planning
     
  • Supervising, monitoring and providing feedback on Tier 3 teacher planning to ensure student learning is
    differentiated appropriately for specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities and in
    all year levels
     
  • Collaborating and consulting with staff to co-design teaching programs that support engagement,
    supporting high expectations and standards, participation and learning of all students, including academic
    support, enrichment, and intervention

Work Requirements

  • Current QLD College of Teacher's Registration
  • Be fully supportive of the ethos of Catholic Education
  • Experience working with students who have diverse learning needs and those requiring learning support in a school setting

What we offer

  • Annual Leave with 17.5% leave loading
  • 12.75% Employer Superannuation Contributions
  • Access to salary packaging options to maximise your salary 
  • Access to long service leave after 7 years of continuous service 
  • 14 Weeks’ paid parental leave 
  • Access to Employee Assistance Program

For further information about the role, please download the Position Description  Download File Download File 2025 PPOL - Learning Leader.pdf

Intending applicants must be fully committed to creating and maintaining a child safe organisation.

Catholic Education is an equal opportunity employer.

Enquiries: 

Principal
Kathy Fleming
P:  07 4081 3400
E:  principal.bentleypk@cns.catholic.edu.au 

 

 

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