Head of Learning Area - English

This is a permanent full-time position commencing Term 1, 2027

Denmark Senior High School (SHS) is a high performing school located in the Shire of Denmark within the Great Southern region of Western Australia. Built on its current site in 2000, the school is set on 19 hectares of land one kilometre east of the town centre. The school provides a comprehensive Year 7 to Year 12 secondary school education.

At Denmark SHS, our commitment to supporting our students to ‘strive to achieve’ is embedded in everything we do. We seek to provide every student with a pathway to a successful future. Quality student outcomes are the result of our fostering the qualities of resilience and social capability; literacy and numeracy competency; and through developing teamwork, critical and creative thinking, innovative and entrepreneurial skills. Further, our focus on staff development serves to both enhance their practice and models the value of being life-long learners to our students. Our key priorities work together to create the conditions for our students to thrive – student success; teaching excellence; health & wellbeing; and relationships & partnerships.

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

The Role

Denmark Senior High School (SHS) is an Independent Public School seeking to appoint a highly competent and enthusiastic Head of Learning Area – English, Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) and Languages to join their senior leadership team.

The successful applicant will ideally display innovation in curriculum leadership, assuming immediate respon…