AHP3 Senior Psychologist

Department for Education, South Australia; Port Pirie; Hybrid; AUD 112,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Department for Education in Australia seeks a Senior Psychologist to lead school-based psychological services, providing professional guidance and supervision to a team serving children with diverse needs.

You will collaborate with educators, allied health professionals, and families to implement targeted interventions and support learning and development in line with cultural responsiveness and inclusive practice.

Qualifications

• Essential: Current and full registration with the Psychology Board of Australia.
• Desirable: Area of practice endorsement – educational and developmental psychology and/or clinical psychology and/or counselling psychology.

Responsibilities

• Provide support within school and preschool settings for children with additional needs.
• Lead, supervise and support psychologists and provision psychologists within an interdisciplinary team.
• Develop evidence-based psychological interventions and proactive whole-site approaches.

Skills

Educational psychology

Developmental psychology

Clinical psychology

Counselling psychology

Education

General registration with Psychology Board of Australia

Psychology Board of Australia approved supervisor

Job description

Department for Education

Job reference: 863583

Location: 5540 - PORT PIRIE, 5554 - KADINA

Job status: Ongoing

Eligibility: Open to Everyone

Why work with us

You will work alongside highly experienced psychologists with strong expertise in school-based psychological practice. The role is supported by the Senior Psychologist, who provides professional leadership, supervision, and direction, with a strong focus on your ongoing professional growth and development.

Collaboration is at the heart of everything we do. You’ll be part of a large and diverse multidisciplinary team, working closely with allied health professionals and experienced educators. This environment supports shared learning and skill development.

We are committed to culturally responsive practice, inclusive education, and strengths-based practices. Our work is guided by respect, equity, and a strong belief in the capacity of every learner to thrive.

About The Role

Student Support Services works with schools and preschools to provide support to assist them in meeting the needs of all children. The role requires the incumbent to participate in the implementation of a service model that supports the provision of integrated and targeted services to meet the needs of children and young people with additional needs.

The trend of increasing learner complexity is well documented in the literature. Increasing numbers of children and young people are being identified with complex learning difficulties and disabilities often with co-existing conditions such as autism and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Increasing numbers of children are in schools who have difficulties arising from premature birth, have survived infancy due to advances in medical interventions, have rare neurological disorders and foetal alcohol syndrome. Behavioural issues are becoming increasingly more challenging and complex with a range of co-morbidity factors (including mental health) that require skills and expertise to identify underlying causes to better address the needs of the children and young people.

The Senior Psychologist is a member of an inter-disciplinary team, providing delegated line management, professional support and supervision to psychologists and provision psychologists and working with children and young people with developmental, cognitive, social, emotional, behavioural and physical difficulties, and exceptional needs (including giftedness) and their families. The Senior Psychologist works closely with the Team Manager, other Senior Psychologists, psychologists, preschool and school staff, and parents to develop evidence based psychological interventions that include proactive, targeted and intensive strategies that can be adapted for learning and home contexts. This position will have a greater focus on proactive whole site and Partnership approaches. The role requires the recruitment, retention, induction and professional support, development and supervision of psychologists with a focus on meeting professional and service delivery standards.

Student Support Services are on a cultural response journey, as such we value and prioritise Aboriginal ways of knowing, doing and being.

Qualifications

Essential: Current and full registration (general) with the Psychology Board of Australia. Psychology Board of Australia approved supervisor.

Desirable: Area of practice endorsement – educational and developmental psychology and/or clinical psychology and/or counselling psychology.

Special conditions

The successful applicant is required to gain a Department for Human Services (DHS) working with children check (WWCC) prior to being employed which is required to be renewed every five years before expiry.

The incumbent will be required to undertake RRHAN -EC (Responding to Risks of Harm, Abuse and Neglect - Education Care) Facilitator Lead (Masterclass) extended course or the online (Fundamentals) course which will be required to be updated every three years.

For all other Special Conditions please refer to the attached Position Description.

Remuneration

AHP3 $112,139 - $120,284 per annum (1.0 FTE) + superannuation (12%) + leave loading and applicable allowances.

Enquiries

Enquiries can be directed to Russell Willsmore, Team Manager, via tel: [phone] or email: [email protected]

People of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent and/or those who have a disability are strongly encouraged to apply.

Additional Note

Multiple full-time and part-time ongoing positions available. The fraction of time (FTE) may be negotiated with successful applicants.

Alternative working arrangements, including drive-in, drive-out arrangements, may also be considered.

Working from home arrangements are available to successful applicants.

Applications close: 19/11/2026 11:30 PM

Attachments

• Application Cover Sheet - PSAct..pdf
• How to Apply PS Act guidelines.pdf
• Position Description - AHP3 Senior Psychologist.pdf
• VL233 Pre-employment declaration.pdf

Flexibility Statement

The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.