School Counsellor - Bega High School

NSW Government; Coomba Park; On-site; AUD 104,000 - 166,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

School holiday leave

Travel allowances

Health and wellbeing benefits

Job summary

NSW Department of Education at Bega High School is seeking a qualified School Counsellor to support student learning and wellbeing through counselling and psychological assessments. The successful candidate will work within a collaborative, multidisciplinary team based at Bega High School and will engage with a diverse student population across the district.

The role offers professional supervision, ongoing development, and opportunities to contribute to student outcomes while adhering to NSW

Qualifications

• Experience in counselling using evidence-based interventions with a demonstrated understanding of the mental health needs of children and young people.
• Experience in the psychological assessment of children and young people, including case formulation and report writing.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with key stakeholders to improve learning and wellbeing outcomes for diverse students.

Responsibilities

• Provide counselling and psychological assessment of students to complement and enhance learning and wellbeing.
• Collaborate with teachers, families and external agencies to support students across multiple sites.
• Engage in supervision, professional development and operate within a multidisciplinary school counselling team.

Skills

Counselling

Psychological assessment

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Registered psychologist (AHPRA)

Provisionally registered psychologist

Job description

School Counsellor - Bega High School - 0000BFP1

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Location

Advertisement Number A900160338

Number of Positions

1

Total Remuneration Package: Package valued at up to $187,933. Base salary ranges from $104,156 to $165,812, plus leave loading and employer's contribution to superannuation. Base salary rates above the minimum are available depending on experience. *Note there is no automatic progression to $165,812 - SCAC. Access to SCAC is available once a school counsellor has progressed through all salary steps and upon successful application for Advanced Certification level against the NSW School Counselling Service PPF.

School counsellors are an essential part of the department’s School Counselling Service .

They provide counselling and psychological assessment of students to complement and enhance the work of teachers to strengthen student learning and wellbeing outcomes, and they help families understand and manage their children’s learning and mental health needs. This is a truly collegiate role offering unique challenges and opportunities – both in your professional development and your ability to make an impact on the lives of children and young people.

The successful candidate will be based at Bega High School and provided with opportunities to work across the lifespan with both primary and high school aged students. Working as a school counsellor in a NSW public school will enable you to engage with a diversity of students (and school communities) like no other child and adolescent psychologist role can. This is a chance to use your skills to make a real difference in the lives of children and young people at a time in their lives when it matters most.

School counsellors receive regular, individual professional supervision with the Senior Psychologist Education and participate in group and peer supervision as a member of the broader district school counselling team. You will most likely be collaborating with a number of school communities and colleagues, as well as outside agencies, with the opportunity to use and expand the full range of your skills and expertise as part of a supportive, multidisciplinary team.

School counsellors are provided with regular opportunities to participate in continuing professional development and the NSW Department of Education will support you to complete or maintain your registration with the Psychology Board of Australia. Other benefits include school holiday leave, travel allowances and health and wellbeing benefits such as our Fitness Passport program. The department will also cover your indemnity insurance as a psychologist.

Established in 1952 in the heart of Bega's commercial and residential precinct, Bega High School is a comprehensive rural high school that draws students from all parts of the Bega Valley Shire. The closest government secondary school is 50 kilometres away and the school's geographical drawing area ranges from Tathra, Cobargo through to Wolumla and Bemboka. The current enrolment is 745 students, including 10% Aboriginal students. A Special Education faculty comprises multi-categorical, emotional disturbance, mild intellectual disability and severe intellectual disability classes. The wide ranging curriculum includes school-based and TAFE-based vocational education, and students follow various learning pathways exemplified by the range of school-based traineeships and apprenticeships for Stage 5 and 6. The school's most recent situational analysis identified three key areas for improvement. Our approach involves the evaluation of explicit teaching, student support, professional learning and consistent improvement to ensure students are at the centre of our activities. These drive our strategic directions of Student growth and attainment, a Learning culture of high expectations and Educational leadership. For more information, visit the school website Bega High School .

Specific Selection Criteria

• Experience in counselling using evidence-based interventions with a demonstrated understanding of the mental health needs of children and young people.
• Experience in the psychological assessment of children and young people, including case formulation and report writing.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with key stakeholders to improve the learning and wellbeing outcomes of children and young people including students from diverse backgrounds and needs.

Conditions

• Be a registered or provisionally registered psychologist, or eligible for registration with the Psychology Board of Australia.
• Ability and willingness to travel between worksites. Must have a valid unrestricted provisional or full driver’s licence with the ability to drive oneself.
• This position is under the Teachers award ( Crown Employees (Teachers in Schools and Related Employees) Salaries and Conditions Award 2024 ). To be eligible to apply, you must have an unconditional, full approval to teach or have eligibility to apply for an approval to teach. If you do not hold a full approval to teach with the NSW Department of Education, you are required to commence the application process at the same time as you apply for this teaching opportunity.

Successful applicants will be provided with a Departmental induction program, ongoing professional learning and professional supervision.

Find out more about working in the school counselling service. Visit the Department’s School Counselling Service pages to discover more about working as a school psychologist or school counsellor in NSW public schools.

Applicants are to include details of their WWCC clearance number as part of this application – WWCC must be NSW.

Applicants seeking either permanent full time or permanent part time employment are encouraged to apply for this position. If the recommended applicant is seeking permanent part time employment (FTE from 0.1 to 0.9 inclusive), they will be offered an appointment at their desired FTE. Applicants on the eligibility list will be offered the remaining FTE but are not obliged to accept. Further information can be found on the merit selection webpage.

About the NSW Department of Education

The Department of Education is the largest provider of public education in Australia with responsibility for delivering high-quality public education to two-thirds of the NSW student population. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, including but not limited to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, people of any age or gender, people from culturally and linguistically diverse groups and/or from the LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, refugees, people with disability, people with sensory differences, and neurodiverse people. If we can make some adjustments to our recruitment/interview process to better help you shine, please reach out to the contact person for this recruitment, details listed above. For more information, visit the NSW Department of Education’s Diversity, equity and inclusion .

We pay respect to the Traditional Custodians and First Peoples of NSW, and acknowledge theircontinued connection to their country and culture.