School Counsellor - Billabong High School

Educationhq; Culcairn; Sur place; AUD 65 000 - 90 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Billabong High School in rural NSW seeks a School Counsellor to support student learning and wellbeing. The role involves counselling, psychological assessment, and collaboration with teachers, families and external agencies to improve outcomes for children and young people.

The successful candidate will work across primary and high school aged students, with supervision and professional development provided within a multidisciplinary team. Applications welcome from eligible practitioners.

Qualifications

• Experience in counselling using evidence-based interventions for children and teens.
• Experience in psychological assessment of students and case formulation.
• Ability to collaborate with stakeholders to improve learning and wellbeing.

Responsabilités

• Provide counselling and psychological assessment of students.
• Collaborate with teachers, families and outside agencies to support wellbeing.
• Engage in supervision and professional development within a multidisciplinary team.

Connaissances

Counselling

Psychological assessment

Collaboration

Formation

Registered psychologist or eligible

Driver's licence

Approval to teach NSW Dept of Education

Description du poste

School Counsellor - Billabong High School

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 Billabong 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.

Billabong High School is a rural comprehensive high school located in the Greater Hume Shire between Albury and Wagga Wagga. The student population is approximately 321 students. The school is situated on Wiradjuri land and eleven percent of the student population identify as having an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background.

Students travel from a number of local townships to attend Billabong High School and the school works in partnership with the community to seek high quality educational outcomes for all students. Priorities include: pursuing excellence in line with the School Excellence Framework, driving literacy and numeracy growth, collaborative practice, and the development of an inclusive and positive school culture that promotes wellbeing for both students and staff alike. For more information, please visit the school website Billabong High School.

About this job

Position Information

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 Billabong 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.

Billabong High School is a rural comprehensive high school located in the Greater Hume Shire between Albury and Wagga Wagga. The student population is approximately 321 students. The school is situated on Wiradjuri land and eleven percent of the student population identify as having an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background.

Students travel from a number of local townships to attend Billabong High School and the school works in partnership with the community to seek high quality educational outcomes for all students. Priorities include: pursuing excellence in line with the School Excellence Framework, driving literacy and numeracy growth, collaborative practice, and the development of an inclusive and positive school culture that promotes wellbeing for both students and staff alike. For more information, please visit the school website Billabong 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.

Special Notes

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 webpage.

Merit selection application guidelines for classroom teachers, executives and principals provide clear advice for applicants and selection panels. The guidelines are available here.