Are you an excellent teacher looking for a rewarding challenge, working in a dynamic and innovative school? This school is the place you'll want to be!

The School of Special Educational Needs: Medical and Mental Health (SSEN:MMH) are seeking to establish a pool of Primary Teachers for permanent and fixed term, full-time and part-time vacancies which may arise during the 2026 school year. Appointments may be offered at any time for vacancies that commence during this period.

The Role

As a Primary Teacher with SSEN: MMH you will be a highly valued member of a team providing quality education to students whose physical or mental health presents difficulties in accessing their usual educational program. The co-teaching environment in our programs is diverse and dynamic on any given day, as you support individualised student needs within multi-age classrooms. Suitable applicants should have excellent communication and interpersonal skills as you work with various other staff within and beyond education. Meeting the needs of all students requires staff to work collectively with others, being open to their opinions and perspectives to achieve positive student outcomes.

These positions will appeal to teachers with a breadth and depth of primary curriculum and pedagogical knowledge. The role will suit self-reflective, motivated teachers with outstanding classroom teaching practice and a range of experiences teaching across subject areas as well as differentiating teaching to cater for student diversity. Our staff make use of multi modal learning approaches to achieve student outcomes and to engage students in active student learning. As a culturally responsive and inclusive school one of your key priorities should include providing all students with opportunities to achieve success through education.

Permanent teachers in other locations within the Department of Education, who would like to work at our school and retain their substantive position, can apply. If this interests, you please discuss with your principal or line manager before applying.

The School of Special Educational Needs: Medical and Mental Health

SSEN:MMH is one of seven specialist schools within Statewide Services. The SSEN:MMH administrative centre is based at Perth Children’s Hospital in Nedlands, with metropolitan programs in hospital and community health settings across campuses in the north and south metropolitan education regions. Staff are timetabled to programs across these various campuses including Shenton Park, Bentley, Joondalup, Midland, Murdoch, Nedlands and Tuart Hill to ensure we meet the needs of all referred students from Kindergarten to Year 12 and improve educational outcomes of these students.

SSEN:MMH is a school that strives for excellence through building the capacity of staff within a culture of support and by creating a learning environment where students can connect, learn and thrive. We encourage staff to share knowledge and exhibit self-reflective practices. The school has a focus on quality teaching, while staff self-improvement is promoted through Professional Learning Communities.

Staff at SSEN:MMH are responsive to diverse needs within a holistic framework of family, students' enrolled schools (both government and non-government), other Specialist Schools and Statewide Services teams, community support systems and the health community. Staff at SSEN:MMH are continuously establishing and maintaining the vital link between health service and schools that is necessary for a student’s total care. Our teachers work with interdisciplinary health teams, as well as collaboratively with other teachers and support staff. These teams assist us meet the educational, medical and psychosocial needs of students ensuring continuity of education.

Given the uniqueness of our school, we’re inviting applicants to join our free online SSEN:MMH 2026 Teacher Pool Information Session event on 4:00 pm Tuesday 1 July or Thursday 31 July 2025, and discover why working at SSEN:MMH is an exciting and rewarding career. During these events, you’ll learn more about our school, our communities, and some of the incredible experiences that come from working with students with medical and health needs, families, schools, and health teams. Presenters include some of our amazing staff members. At the end, we’ll wrap things up with a hugely valuable Q&A so you can really see if this is going to be the right fit for you.