Are you wanting to be a teacher's aide? Ideally you would need to have done, or are willing to undertake a TAFE course for Education Support, so you know what you have to do and how best to work with the children you are placed with, But I know women who have gotten SLSO jobs without having done that course. THere is some information on the DEC site here http://www.dec.nsw.gov.au/about-us/c...-support-roles It can be a tough job to get a hold of - schools only employ SLSO's if they have the children that qualify for aide hours and for some children, that may only be a few hours a week. If they don't have any children that need aide's then you don't get the work, but being in Sydney, that's probably not going to be hard as you have more schools to work with. You just need to start approaching schools and one of the best ways to do that is to volunteer within the school first - schools always need helpers for their literacy programs etc to listen to children read one on one. Once you actually have children at school it's so much easier because the school *knows* you.