Learning Support Coordinator - Primary - Lochinvar

Catholic Schools Office Maitland - Newcastle; Newcastle-Maitland; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fitness Passport

Employee Assistance Program

Training and staff development

Paid parental leave

Long service leave after five years

Job summary

St Patrick's Primary School, Lochinvar, part of the Catholic Schools Office Maitland - Newcastle, invites applications for a permanent full-time Learning Support Coordinator (K-6). The role focuses on ensuring every child has the opportunity to grow academically and spiritually, with a strong emphasis on inclusive practices and collaboration with families and external providers.

You will oversee the Learning Support team, coordinate personalised plans, and work with classroom teachers to

Qualifications

• Understanding of NSW disability legislation and NCCD.
• Experience designing Personalised Plans and Learner Profiles.
• Ability to use student data to determine adjustments.
• Experience with enrolment and transition processes.

Responsibilities

• Supervise Learning Support staff and coordinate team activities.
• Identify students with disabilities and coordinate assessments with external providers.
• Deliver interventions and differentiate curriculum with teachers.
• Oversee design and monitoring of Personalised Plans and Learner Profiles.
• Collaborate with teachers to align adjustments with curriculum plans.
• Lead professional learning for staff and inform parents.
• Liaise with other schools during transitions.
• Prepare documentation under disability legislation and privacy rules.
• Collect evidence for NCCD inclusion.
• Develop inclusive learning environments and build staff capacity.

Skills

Special Education

Disability expertise

Collaborative leadership

Catholic education understanding

Education

Four-year trained teacher

Postgraduate qualifications in Special Education

Active NSW Working with Children Check (WWCC)

NESA Accreditation

Job description

Learning Support Coordinator - Primary - Lochinvar

Catholic Schools Office Maitland - Newcastle – Lochinvar NSW

23h ago , from Catholic Schools Office Maitland - Newcastle

St Patrick's Primary School, Lochinvaris seeking a permanent full-time Learning Support Coordinatorto join the team, commencing January 2027.

St Patrick's Primary School, Lochinvar is a Catholic school community offering a loving, caring and compassionate environment for students from Kindergarten to Year 6. St Patrick’s provides a contemporary learning environment equipped with modern technology and facilities, as well as flexible learning spaces purpose-built for collaboration and personalised teaching and learning. Our highly qualified and dedicated staff strive to provide a high quality, supportive and innovative education that is responsive to the different needs of students, celebrates their strengths and provides opportunities for all to achieve excellence.

The Leader of Learning Support / Learning Support Coordinator (K-6) in a Catholic school has a unique role to play and is assigned with the task of ensuring each child has the opportunity to grow both academically and spiritually and to live a purposeful life. Examples of responsibilities of the Learning Support Teacher include, but are not limited to, the following:

• supervise the work of personnel in the Learning Support faculty/team.
• assist with the identification of students with special educational needs, consult and collaborate with parents, colleagues, CSO personnel and external providers, and facilitate referral and assessment procedures with Catholic Schools Office Student Support staff.
• deliver intervention, teach students, and assist teachers with curriculum differentiation.
• Oversee the design, implementation, and monitoring and review of adjustments, as documented in the Personalised Plan (PP) or Learner Profile (LP), collaborating with class teachers and other relevant personnel.
• work collaboratively with other teachers/educators to ensure that the adjustments developed to support students with disabilities are aligned to school curriculum plans.
• contribute to the provision of staff professional development and parent education programs.
• liaise with relevant schools particularly in relation to transition periods.
• coordinate the preparation of documentation required under legislation in line with privacy, confidentiality, and disability obligations, for example, pre-enrolment / transition documentation, submissions for increased support, etc.
• ensure the collection of evidence to support inclusion in the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data (NCCD).
• support the development of inclusive learning environments.
• manage programs and processes to support students with disability.
• build capacity of teachers and other school staff in the area of Special Education.

The teacher will promote the school as a place of learning and excellence in accordance with contemporary evidence-based learning and wellbeing principles (including digital learning) and will ensure the ongoing development and implementation of pedagogical practices that impact on student learning outcomes. The teacher will acknowledge and agree to the requirement to work within the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers.

CRITERIA/EXPERIENCE

• Ability to articulate a clear understanding of and a personal commitment to Catholic education and the mission of the Church through Catholic schools.
• Proven successful experience working with students (K-6) with all categories of disability: physical, cognitive, sensory, social/emotional.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with school staff, CSO staff and external stakeholders in order to establish productive partnerships and achieve educational outcomes for students.
• Experience in the delivery of professional learning for staff and parents.
• Demonstrated ability to lead a team and manage programs.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively gather and utilise assessment data, and other relevant student data, to determine the adjustments required for individual students and groups of students.
• Demonstrated ability to collaboratively prepare Personalised Plans and Learner Profiles for students with disability, interpreting and responding to specialist reports.
• Experience in supporting student enrolment and transitions.
• Detailed working knowledge of Disability legislation and the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data.
• Evidence of excellent organisational, interpersonal and administrative skills.

Qualifications/Accreditations

• Qualifications as a four-year trained teacher
• Postgraduate qualifications in Special Education and/or extensive special education experience.
• Active NESA Accreditation.
• Current paid NSW Working with Children Check (WWCC) number.
• Completion of anaphylaxis training.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

Salary is in accordance with New South Wales & Australian Capital Territory Catholic Systemic Schools Enterprise Agreement 2025.

• Work in quality schools where students are nurtured, challenged and encouraged to excel and grow

A corporate fitness program through Fitness Passport (T&C's apply)

• Employee assistance program (EAP)
• Training and staff development programs
• Paid parental leave for eligible employees
• Access to long service leave after just five years for eligible employees

Additional information

The Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable persons and preventing those in our care from suffering abuse or neglect. It is committed to implementing and maintaining compliance with the NSW Child Safe Standards and the National Catholic Safeguarding Standards and takes a zero-tolerance approach to abuse of children or vulnerable persons. All who work in the name of the Diocese must comply with the Diocesan Safeguarding Framework Policy and act in accordance with the Diocese’s Code of Conduct which includes the Diocese’s Safeguarding Commitment Statement.Employees are required to undergo a National Police Check and retain a valid NSW Working with Children Check where necessary, in accordance with legislation.