Psychologist 0.4

Victorian Government; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Hallam Primary School, in the Melbourne southern suburbs, seeks a Range 4 Health and Allied Health professional to lead school health and wellbeing initiatives and provide early intervention services. The role supports the leadership team and liaises with the Department and external providers to ensure high quality wellbeing programs.

Responsibilities include implementing whole-school health plans, delivering short-term counselling, coordinating complex-need supports, and ensuring external

Qualifications

• Ability to implement small group and whole-school mental health prevention and promotion activities aimed at improving student mental health and wellbeing.
• Input into the development, implementation and evaluation of processes and strategies aimed at enhancing mental health prevention, promotion and early intervention.
• Experience in assessing, conceptualising and analysing wellbeing issues, and providing evidence-based direct counselling support to clients with a range of mental health needs.
• Coordinating supports for young people with complex needs including referrals to specialist services as appropriate.
• Strong communication, networking and interpersonal skills including the ability to liaise with a wide range of people.
• Clear understanding of legislative requirements regarding privacy of health information.

Responsibilities

• Enhance mental health prevention and promotion activities in the school by contributing to whole-school health and wellbeing plans, building staff capability to address student mental health and wellbeing.
• Provide early intervention services (including short-term counselling) for at-risk students and groups.
• Coordinate supports for students with complex needs with regions, local mental health service providers and other health professionals to engage further support.
• Manage the delivery of support services to students, teachers, parents and other school clients.
• Ensure all external providers deliver the required service.

Skills

Mental health promotion

Counselling

Stakeholder liaison

Communication skills

Privacy compliance

Job description

Occupation: Health and allied health

Location: Melbourne - Southern suburbs

Reference: 1548234

Selection Criteria

• Ability to implement a range of small group and whole-school mental health prevention and promotion activities aimed at improving student mental health and wellbeing, including the delivery of capability building and awareness raising activities for staff and/or students on key mental health and wellbeing issues affecting the schools student population.


• Demonstrated ability to input into the development, implementation and evaluation of processes and strategies aimed at enhancing mental health and wellbeing prevention, promotion and early intervention.


• Demonstrated experience in assessing, conceptualising and analysing wellbeing issues, and providing evidence-based direct counselling support to clients with a range of mental health needs.


• Demonstrated experience in coordinating supports for young people with complex needs including referrals to a range of specialist services as appropriate.


• Highly developed communication, networking and interpersonal skills including the ability to liaise effectively with a wide range of people.


• Clear understanding of legislative requirements regarding privacy of health information.

Role

Range 4 is distinguished by broader management responsibility, particularly in the areas of finance, human resource and other support functions.Range 4 is responsible for managing a range of functions under a wide range of conditions, subject to the size and complexity of school operations.

Objectives will, generally, be clearly defined; guidelines will be broad and day-to-day direction minimal.Management responsibility extends to ensuring appropriate support levels are maintained across the school.Range 4 generally provides key support and timely advice to the leadership team and school council and liaises with the general school community, the Department and other government agencies and service providers.

Specialised professional roles will carry a high level of independence and accountability where suitable scope is provided to achieve objectives.

Responsibilities

• Enhance mental health prevention and promotion activities in the school by contributing to whole-school health and wellbeing plans, building the capability of teaching staff and school leadership to address matters relating to student mental health and wellbeing, and helping to develop and deliver appropriate programs and strategies in the school according to specified school priorities


• Provide early intervention services (including short-term counselling) for individual students and groups identified as at-risk and/or experiencing or demonstrating mild to moderate mental health concerns; and

Coordinating supports for students with complex needs both within and external to the school, including proactively working with regions, local mental health service providers and other health professionals to engage further support as required.

• Manage the delivery of support services to students, teachers, parents and other school clients.


• Ensure all external providers deliver the required service.

Who May Apply

Diversity and Inclusion

The department is committed to diversity and inclusion and developing a workforce that is representative of the community we service. We value diversity and inclusion in all forms - culture, gender, religion, ethnicity, LGBTIQA+, disability and neurodiversity. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates are strongly encouraged to apply for roles within the Department.The Department recognises that the provision of safe, respectful and inclusive workplaces is essential to high performance and promotes flexible work and diversity across all schools and Department workplaces.It is our policy to provide reasonable adjustments for staff with disability (see Workplace adjustment guidelines ).

Additional support and advice on the recruitment process is available to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander candidates from the Koorie Outcomes Division (KOD) via [e-mail]

Applicants seeking part-time employment are encouraged to apply for any teaching service position and, if they are the successful candidate, request a reduced time fraction. Such requests will be negotiated on a case-by-case basis and will be subject to the operational requirements of the school.

Child Safe Standards

Victorian government schools are child safe environments. Our schools actively promote the safety and wellbeing of all students, and all school staff are committed to protecting students from abuse or harm in the school environment, in accordance with their legal obligations including child safe standards. All schools have a Child Safety Code of Conduct consistent with the department's exemplar available at:

The department's employees commit to upholding the department's Values: Responsiveness, Integrity, Impartiality, Accountability, Respect, Leadership and Human Rights. The department's Values complement each school's own values and underpin the behaviours the community expects of Victorian public sector employees,including those who work in Victorian Government Schools. Information on the department values is available at:

Conditions of Employment

• All staff employed by the Department and schools have access to a broad range of employment conditions and working arrangements.


• Appointment of successful applicants will be made subject to a satisfactory pre-employment conditions check.


• A probationary period may apply during the first year of employment and induction and support programs provided.


• Detailed information on all terms and conditions of employment is available on the Department's Human Resources website at http://www.education.vic.gov.au/hrweb/Pages/default.aspx

Location Profile

Hallam Primary School is situated within one of the most culturally diverse communities in the City of Casey. Nearly forty languages other than English are spoken within the school community. Hallam Primary School has started a SWPBS journey and continues to promote its values of safe, responsible, learner, kind as key components of school culture and development.

Hallam Primary School provides an inclusive and supportive learning environment.The school ensures a safe and orderly learning and teaching environment, implements school-based wellbeing support that incorporates fair and equitable student management processes, establishes effective curriculum, assessment and reporting procedures and has high expectations that all students can learn and be successful.

Staff work collaboratively and take collective responsibility for students' learning and wellbeing. This is consistent from Foundation, where many students enter the school developmentally vulnerable and make progressive gains through to Year 6. These gains are achieved through a structured learning environment aligned with the VTLM2.0 and purposeful explicit teaching.

Programs in Science-Technology (Science, Coding, Robotics, VR), Physical Education, Visual Arts, Performance Arts and LOTE (Auslan) and cooking and gardening through the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden program. Students are offered participation in a range of extra-curricular experiences such as camps, incursion and excursions throughout the year.

Applications close Tuesday 27 October 2026 at 11.59pm