Education Assistant - Lead

This is a permanent full time position commencing Term 4, 2026

Highgate Primary School (PS) is an Independent Public-School catering to approximately 1000 Kindergarten to Year 6 students.

Highgate PS is a great place to work. The staff are committed, hard-working, and willing to go above and beyond for each other and for the students. We all share ownership, accountability, and responsibility for the school community and the progress of our students. We work hard to create a great school with a healthy internal culture.

Find out more about our school by visiting highgateps.wa.edu.au or Schools Online.

The Role

The successful applicant, should ideally have great people skills, well-developed emotional intelligence, have a great sense of joy, humour and fun, and be loyal, hard-working and flexible in your mindset.

You would be an important member of our amazing student services team, made up of three Special Needs Education Assistant (SNEA) Lead, school psychologist, learning support teachers, deputy principals and a student wellbeing officer. You would provide a flexible and supportive response to individual students emotional, social and educational needs. You would be expected to model best practice and guide teams of Education Assistants to provide high quality and consistent care to high needs students.

You should build trust-filled, quality relationships with students, parents and staff. Ideally, you will have the skills to be able to support and encourage the students to participate in the educational program at Highgate, and achieve aims articulated in the Highgate PS vision…