VET Plumbing - Harvester Technical College

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About the business

Harvester Technical College first opened in 2009 to give students the opportunity to build their skills and knowledge in various trade pathways and an integrated VCAL Program, enabling them to graduate with both the technical and personal skills to become work ready employees and apprentices. 

Harvester College is a boutique Senior School hosting 170 students in specialised trade programs in years 10-12.  The college is located in North Sunshine on Suffolk Rd, but draws students from a much wider area to its specialised programs in Electrotechnology, Engineering and Building and Construction Carpentry and Plumbing.  All Pre – Apprenticeship Programs are delivered on site in our state of the art Trade Training Centre that opened in 2014.  These programs are combined with an integrated VCAL Program allowing students to focus on the trade they are studying in Literacy and Numeracy as well. 

About the role

The role will be teaching VET Plumbing at Certificate II level.  The successful applicant will also be required to further develop and implement curriculum content for competency based assessment. The applicant will be required to work as a team with other teachers and staff.

Most of the teaching will be in our workshops and requires the applicant to have high level skills in delivering technology programs that engage young people and have pathways into our senior programs.

The classroom teacher classification comprises two salary ranges- range 1 and range 2 The primary focus of the classroom teacher is on the planning, preparation and teaching of programs to achieve specific student outcomes.  The classroom teacher engages in critical reflection in order to improve knowledge and skills to better engage students and improve their learning. 

As the classroom teacher gains experience his or her contribution to the school program beyond the classroom increases.

All classroom teachers may be required to undertake other duties in addition to their rostered teaching duties provided the responsibility is appropriate to the salary range, qualifications, training and experience of the teacher.

Benefits and perks

This teaching position takes place during regular secondary school terms.  There is no attendance requirement at the school during school holiday periods.

Skills and experience

Responsibilities:

Core responsibilities include:

• Planning and implementing a range of teaching programs or
  courses of study
• Teaching an area of the curriculum or a general curriculum to a
  year level
• Monitoring, evaluating and reporting student progress in key
  learning areas
• Implementing strategies to achieve targets related to student
  learning outcomes
• Maintaining records of class attendance and recording student
  progress
• Implementing effective student management consistent with the
  school vision.
• Working with a mentor to participate in professional development
  planning, implementation and reflection developing a professional
  portfolio

  Qualifications Required:

• Bachelor of Education (Secondary) with Technology as one method (or Graduate Diploma equivalent) or  Permission to Teach from the VIT
• Certificate IV in Training and Assessment
• Certificate III iPlumbing
• Relevant trade and industry experience
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