About The BUSY School…

The BUSY School is part of The BUSY Group, a not-for-profit organisation presenting over 47 years as a community partner providing employment services, vocational education and training, apprenticeships, mentoring, Inclusive Employment Support, and allied health services.

The BUSY School is an independent Special Assistance School with 10 campuses across Queensland and New Zealand, providing an alternative program for Year 11 and 12 students who are disengaged or at risk of disengaging from education. Our program has expanded to include The BUSY School Online (TBSO) offering flexible access to our program for all students across Queensland.

Each campus provides a supportive and safe learning environment for young people by providing them with an education program that includes vocational education and training (VET), work experience and opportunities for school-based apprenticeships and traineeships. Our team support the students to gain employability and transferability skills to increases their sense of wellbeing, resilience, belonging, academic achievement, career exploration and employment outcomes.

Our teams’ focus is centred at re-engaging our students to learn, remain eligible for a Queensland Certificate of Education (QCE) and gain employment or further training outcomes upon student’s graduation from Year 12.

The BUSY School is seeking qualified teachers for our relief teaching pool!

The Townsville Campus is looking for Teachers to express interest in working as relief teachers. Each campus provides a supportive and safe learning environment for young people in years 11 and 12 by providing them with support that increases their sense of wellbeing, resilience, belonging, academic achievement, career exploration and employment outcomes.

BUSY BENEFITS:

• Competitive, casual day rate + 12.5% superannuation
• Impacting and changing the lives of youth to teenage in learning, remain eligible for a QCE and gain employment and further training outcomes
• Small classes of max. 16 students
• Collegial campus-based team of a Campus Principal, teachers, learning support, teacher aides, education youth workers, employment pathways, work readiness and administration officers, and additional student support from external providers, as required
• Clear pathways for internal advancement
• BUSY Benefits program - retail discounts and access to Fitness Passport
• Enjoy work that genuinely impacts lives
• Employee Assistance Program with Sonder Wellbeing App

ABOUT YOU

Casual relief teaching staff are required to:

• Hold a Current QCT Registration

Desirable experience and characteristics:

• Experience working with QCAA and QCE requirements, accountabilities and processes is preferable
• Motivated and genuine passion to work with disengaged youth and support students as part of holistic school team
• Experience and/or high level of understanding of trauma-informed and restorative practices is desirable
• You have experience in developing and implementing a range of strategies to support diverse needs of students through differentiation, support and behaviour management strategies.

Next steps...

This role will actively commence recruitment from the date of advertisement. The closing date of this ad is dependent on the appointment of the role.

The BUSY Group is an organisation that prioritises the safeguarding of children and all vulnerable people by actively adopting strategies that embed a culture of zero tolerance for abuse of any kind. The appointment of successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory employment screening including criminal history and relevant working with children checks. 

The BUSY Group is committed to achieving a diverse workforce and strongly encourages applications from First Nations People, veterans, people from culturally diverse backgrounds and people with disabilities.