Head Teacher - Teaching & Learning - Ashcroft High School

NSW Police Force; Sydney; On-site; AUD 138,000 - 169,000; Full time

Job summary

NSW Department of Education is seeking a Head Teacher - Teaching & Learning at Ashcroft High School in the Sydney Region. The role leads teaching and learning, supports the QT framework, and oversees school programs with a strong focus on whole-person development and equity.

The successful candidate will join a high-capacity executive team, ensuring high-quality pedagogy, assessment, and student welfare across a diverse student body within a DoE framework.

Qualifications

• Successful applicants must satisfy teacher training and academic qualification requirements.
• Educational leadership skills to build capacity and manage performance of individuals and teams.
• Well developed communication and interpersonal skills to engage students, staff and parents.
• Knowledge of NSW Quality Teaching framework and inclusive teaching practices.

Skills

Executive leadership

Curriculum leadership

Communication skills

Resource management

Aboriginal education knowledge

Education

Teaching qualification

Job description

Job Description - Head Teacher - Teaching & Learning - Ashcroft High School (0000BF6X)

Head Teacher - Teaching & Learning - Ashcroft High School - 0000BF6X

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Location

Sydney Region

Advertisement Number A900159866

Number of Positions

1

Total Remuneration Package: Remuneration package valued at $174,015.00. This position attracts a base salary of $153,531.00, plus leave loading and employer's contribution to superannuation.

School Name Ashcroft High School

Principal Network Liverpool

Staffing Area Liverpool

FTE 1.000

Contact Name Dr Ted Noon

Contact Phone number 96078011

Contact School Admin - 99999999

Closing Date

11-Nov-2026, 5:00:00 AM

Job Category

TCH Other

Organisation

Teaching Service

Position Information

AHS has an enrolment of over 700, including 70% LBOTE and 16% students of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background. Equity funding assists considerable economic and social disadvantage. AHS has a highly-developed sense of vision and purpose, from which the construct of Place and Space and the Whole Person form the basis to various interconnecting layers. This focus means all aspects of human development are equally acknowledged and developed to assist comprehensive educational outcomes. With the young person at the centre, the core of pedagogical practice is the highly regarded and research-supported NSW DoE Quality Teaching Framework [QT] developed by the NSW Department of Education with the University of Newcastle in 2003. All school programs, all teachers are professionally supported all year round through consistent classroom visits and QT coding, one-hour feedback and coaching. Subsequent comprehensive data – including teacher and student reflections and journals, has been tracked since 2010 and included in whole school analysis, reports and research. The HT overseas the intersection of all relatedprograms, staff and PD.

Specific Selection Criteria

Applicants must satisfy the teacher training and academic qualification requirements for this position. In addition to the general selection criteria,

• To be part of an executive team leading a holistic learning approach to human development [the whole person] and an interconnected community model.
• To be part of an executive team that supports a wide range of student learning capacities entering the school, while engendering excitement in practice.
• To see learning as an integrated whole, i.e., awareness of all core elements of contemporary schooling in preparing young people fully for their post-school world.
• To acknowledge and embrace the NSW Quality Teaching model [2003] at the core of intellectually supported pedagogical practice and whole-school programs and outcomes.

General Selection Criteria

• Successful teaching experience with capacity to initiate improvement in teaching, learning and classroom practice
• Knowledge of curriculum, assessment and student welfare with the ability to lead and design quality, inclusive teaching and learning programs
• Educational leadership skills to build the capacity and manage the performance of individuals and teams
• Well developed communication and interpersonal skills with the capacity to build relationships and engage students, staff and parents
• Ability to plan and manage resources effectively and equitably to support teaching and learning
• Knowledge of and commitment to the Department's Aboriginal education policy

Conditions

An unconditional full approval to teach is a requirement. If you do not hold a full approval to teach with the NSW Department of Education, you are required to commence the application process at the same time as you apply for this teaching opportunity.

Special Notes

The Eligibility Requirements for Head Teacher Positions in NSW Government Schools are located here .

Applicants are to include details of their WWCC clearance number as part of this application.

About the NSW Department of Education

The Department of Education is the largest provider of public education in Australia with responsibility for delivering high-quality public education to two-thirds of the NSW student population. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, including but not limited to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, people of any age or gender, people from culturally and linguistically diverse groups and/or from the LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, refugees, people with disability, people with sensory differences, and neurodiverse people. If we can make some adjustments to our recruitment/interview process to better help you shine, please reach out to the contact person for this recruitment, details listed above. For more information, visit the NSW Department of Education’s Diversity, equity and inclusion webpage .

We pay respect to the Traditional Custodians and First Peoples of NSW, and acknowledge theircontinued connection to their country and culture.