<p><b>Learning Support Teacher – Full Time</b></p><p> </p><div>Bellfield College is a high quality, independent, co-educational K – 12 school. It seeks to provide the distinctive identity, relationships, learning and leadership, supporting its staff and families to meet the high expectations for the achievement and holistic development of its students in our local, national and international communities.</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>Bellfield College have a future focused mindset and maintain a positive and effective learning environment through well-prepared and varied lessons, which cater to the range of student abilities and interests.</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div><b>About the role </b></div><div>The Learning Support Teacher will provide direct and timely specialist assistance to students in regular classes with additional learning and support needs, with a focus on students who fall into the NCCD Substantial Level of Adjustment. </div><div>The role will reflect the needs of individual students and school priorities and programs that support students with additional learning and support needs. </div><div>The role will be underpinned by a collaborative and consultative approach so that the student and/or their parent or carer are actively involved in the student’s education.</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div><b>Key responsibilities </b></div><div>Includes but not limited to; </div><div> </div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>• Provide additional support and individualised instruction in a highly structured manner, including adjustments for students to most courses, curriculum areas, activities &amp; assessments. </div><div>• Provide personalised and explicit instruction to support one or more learning areas </div><div>• Plan personal care and/or safety support or intervention, in addition to active monitoring and supervision. </div><div>• Expected to undertake all duties of teaching staff including playground supervision, off campus professional development and school directed activities. </div><div>• Provide adjustments to enable access to learning, which includes, but is not limited to: </div><div>• Specialised equipment </div><div>• Specific planning for access to activities or facilities </div><div>• Modification to school environments, such as buildings and facilities </div><div>• Environmental adjustments to support participation in learning </div><div>• Support Year 7 transition program assisting students with differing learning needs to transition from year 6 into year 7 successfully and writing transition support plans for each student, communicating these to families and future year senior school staff. </div><div>• Coordinate the orientation day for students new to college for year 7. </div><div>• Support students both within the classroom and outside of the classroom to assist in their individual learning needs. This includes sitting in class with students and assisting their learning through prompting, adapting delivery of lessons to best suit student needs, clarifying/ breaking down tasks into smaller more achievable steps. </div><div>• Supporting students both academically as well as socially. </div><div>• Conduct discussions with students around their goals and how they can achieve these as well as areas of concern for them and how we can assist. </div><div>• Collaborate with teachers to make adjustments to their programs, lesson plans and classroom teaching environment to best suit the needs of students and monitor these adjustments. </div><div>• Implement standardized assessments on students to identify level of ability in literacy and evaluated these and used this information to develop individual learning plans. </div><div>• Coordinate Best Start Year 7 Assessment and identify students requiring additional support in the areas of Literacy and Numeracy. </div><div>• Communicate and collaborate with external therapists of students, organised school-based therapy sessions. </div><div>• Supervise exams for students with disability provisions. </div><div>• Collate data required for the National Consistent Collection of Data (NCCD) submissions and offer advice and support to the teaching team in collecting data for NCCD. </div><div>• Writing meeting agendas, minutes, leading discussions and planning around student support requirements. </div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Duties will also include: </b></div><div>• work collaboratively with the classroom teacher to support assessment for learning of their students with additional educational needs and identify specific learning and support needs </div><div>• plan, implement, model, monitor and evaluate teaching programs for students with additional learning and support needs in conjunction with regular classroom teachers </div><div>• plan, implement, model, monitor and evaluate personalised adjustments for learning where required, with the classroom teacher, student and/or parent or carer </div><div>• model exemplary classroom practice when tailoring adjusted learning programs for students with additional learning needs </div><div>• provide direct support for students with additional learning and support needs through a range of strategies (including direct instruction, delivery of adjusted learning programs, assessment and monitoring of progress) including the areas of social integration, language and communication, literacy, numeracy and behaviour. This may include students with confirmed disabilities. </div><div>• provide professional specialist advice, support and mentoring to classroom teachers on: - how best to cater for the diverse learning needs in their classrooms, and </div><div>• how to effectively work in partnership with families to maximise learning opportunities for students at school and at home </div><div>• provide professional specialist advice and assistance about students with additional learning needs to the school’s learning and support team </div><div>• assist with professional learning for class teachers and support officers</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div><b>What next? </b></div><div>If you’d like to express interest, send through a full resume and covering letter addressing your interest and suitability to the role directly to the Head of Senior School Mouina Ramadan at <a href="mailto:mouina.ramadan&#64;bellfield.nsw.edu.au" rel="nofollow">mouina.ramadan&#64;bellfield.nsw.edu.au</a>and cc Sarah Fisher <a href="mailto:sarah.fisher&#64;bellfield.nsw.edu.au" rel="nofollow">sarah.fisher&#64;bellfield.nsw.edu.au</a></div><div> </div><div><br /></div><div>Applications will only be considered from applicants who have the right to work in Australia, appropriate NESA accreditation and retention of a valid Working with Children Check. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>Bellfield College is committed to providing equal opportunity and supporting our communities by providing opportunities to grow and make a real difference. We work hard to create a safe and inclusive environment for all.</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>Bellfield cares about keeping children and young people safe. Protecting and promoting the emotional, physical, cultural and spiritual wellbeing of children, young people, and employees, is central to all aspects of the operations and culture of Bellfield College. </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><p></p>