School Counsellor - Box Hill Public School

Educationhq; Sydney; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

School holiday leave

Travel allowances

Health and wellbeing benefits (Fitness

Indemnity insurance

Job summary

Box Hill Public School in Sydney's NSW region is seeking a School Counsellor to support student learning and wellbeing through counselling and psychological assessment, working within a collegiate multidisciplinary team.

You will engage with families and school communities to promote mental health and inclusive education, with supervision and ongoing professional development provided by the department.

Qualifications

• Experience in counselling using evidence-based interventions for children and young people.
• Experience in psychological assessment of children and young people, including case formulation and reporting.
• Ability to collaborate with stakeholders to improve learning and wellbeing outcomes for diverse students.

Responsibilities

• Provide counselling and psychological assessment to students to support learning and wellbeing.
• Collaborate with teachers, families, and external services within a multidisciplinary team.
• Engage in supervision and professional learning; contribute to district school counselling team.
• Support ongoing professional development and registration with the Psychology Board of Australia.

Job description

School Counsellor - Box Hill Public 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 Box Hill Public 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.

Box Hill Public School, located in Sydney's Northwest Growth Corridor, opened its temporary campus on George Street in 2025 and will move to a new permanent site on Terry Road in 2028 with a co-located high school. The permanent school will accommodate up to 1,000 students, featuring innovative, flexible learning spaces, as well as a Support Unit and a preschool. Serving a culturally diverse community, with 87% of students from English as an Additional Language background, the school has a current enrolment of 655 students in K-6 and is projected to grow to over 800 by 2027. Box Hill Public School's vision is to foster an environment where all students are motivated to reach their full potential, supported by evidence-based teaching pedagogies grounded in the science of learning, where every student has the potential to accomplish extraordinary things, regardless of their starting point.

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

This position commences 28 January 2027.

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.

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.