Position: School Officer - Assisting Student Learning
Per Hourly Range: $33.20-$34.61 per hour pending experience
Tenure: Term Time, Fixed Term
Commencing Date: 22 April 2025
Closing Date: Monday, 28 April 2025 unless filled prior

Holy Spirit Catholic School, Cranbrook is a place where children learn and find strength - the Spirit. As a Catholic co-educational primary school located in Cranbrook, Holy Spirit has an enrolment of 685 students from Prep-Year 6. The dedicated staff continuously strive for educational excellence based in the Catholic tradition, underpinned by the school’s motto is 'Strength in the Spirit'.

About the role
Holy Spirit Catholic School, Cranbrook is seeking a dedicated School Officer - Assisting Student Learning (ASL) to commence as soon as practicable. This role is a term time, fixed term position working 25 hours per week for the duration of the 2025 school year.

The School Officer – Assisting Student Learning (ASL) works under the direction and supervision of a teacher to provide learning and classroom support to all students including students who have identified additional needs to access and participate in schooling.

This role requires the School Officer to provide support to students with complex communication needs, engaging in communication in non-verbal formats. Providing support in all areas of the students needs including toileting, transfers and signs of medical attention required. The School Officer is willing to work in a team to provide adequate support.

Typical Duties

The typical duties of the role may include:

Providing support to individual students inside and outside the classroom to enable them to participate in learning and school activities

Assisting students (either individually or in groups) with specific learning needs including scribing, reading and providing feedback and observations to the classroom teacher(s)

Supporting student engagement by reinforcing appropriate student behaviour

Providing practical assistance to students in using classroom technology

Performing administrative tasks of record maintenance, producing resources (eg. Printing, laminating etc) and other classroom administrative support

Maintaining a clean and tidy classroom environment/learning space including storage facilities and assisting in setting up appropriate classroom/learning space

Providing support to students in relation to their physical needs (eg. mobility support) and personal care (eg. toileting, feeding)

Mandatory Criteria

Current Working with Children Suitability Card - The successful candidate will require a paid Blue Card before commencement as per the No Card, No Start policy developed by Queensland Government.

Current Driver’s Licence

Ability to travel from time to time within the Catholic Diocese of Townsville

Ability to perform the physical requirements of the role in a safe manner.

Desirable Criteria

No formal qualification is required;, however, a Cert III in School Based Education Support or equivalent.

Some employees may be subject to pre-employment medical assessments during the selection process. Depending on the nature of the position, it may be necessary for successful applicants to be immunised against certain preventable diseases in order to minimise the risk of transmission.

For more information, please refer to the Position Description

What we offer

Competitive hourly rate

Annual Leave at 17.5% leave loading

Salary packaging options

Modern facilities, equipment and resources

Access to long service leave after 7 years of continuous service

Up to 14 Weeks’ paid parental leave

Deferred Salary Scheme

Corporate health insurance

Induction, professional development and learning opportunities

Wellbeing programs and initiatives

Our Organisation

Townsville Catholic Education supports a diverse region extending from Townsville to the Burdekin and Whitsunday regions in the south, and north to Ingham and Halifax, south-west to Winton, and west to the border with the Northern Territory, encompassing Mount Isa and several small, isolated western towns and east to Palm Island. Townsville Catholic Education provides a supportive, flexible working environment where care for the individual is an important part of our ethos. We employ motivated people who want to work together to produce excellent outcomes for our students. Our staff are recognised as being central to achieving our mission. Townsville Catholic Education has standards of conduct for workers to maintain a safe and healthy environment for children. Our commitment to these standards requires that we conduct working with children checks and background referencing for all persons who will engage in direct and regular involvement with children and young people and/or adults-at-risk. The organisation is fully committed to child safety and has a zero tolerance to abuse of children or adults-at-risk.

How to apply

Click on the link to apply via the Careers page.