School Counsellor - Cobar High School

NSW Police Force; Cobar; On-site; AUD 104,000 - 166,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Leave loading

Employer superannuation contributions

School holiday leave

Travel allowances

Fitness Passport program

Indemnity insurance coverage

Job summary

School Counsellor position at Cobar High School in regional NSW is a key part of the NSW Department of Education’s School Counselling Service. The successful candidate will provide counselling and psychological assessment to support student learning and wellbeing, working across the lifespan with students from Year 7 to Year 12 and collaborating with multiple school communities.

Based at Cobar High School, the role offers supervision, professional development, and access to a range of support

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 the learning and wellbeing outcomes of children and young people including students from diverse backgrounds and needs.

Responsibilities

• Provide counselling and psychological assessment to students to support learning and wellbeing.
• Collaborate with teachers, families and external agencies to plan interventions and supports.
• Contribute to a multidisciplinary team within the School Counselling Service and participate in supervision and professional development.

Skills

Counselling experience

Psychological assessment

Stakeholder collaboration

Job description

Job Description - School Counsellor - Cobar High School (0000BFH0)

School Counsellor - Cobar High School - 0000BFH0

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Location

Regional NSW

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 Cobar 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.

Cobar is a well-resourced, far western mining community and rural service centre of approximately 5,000 people, located 720 km west of Sydney. As a small co-educational, comprehensive high school catering for students from Year 7 through to Year 12, with an enrolment of 220 students, inclusive of 24% Aboriginal students, the school aims to provide a safe and happy environment that caters for individual differences and provides opportunities for all students to maximise their potential. Cobar High School hosts a trade training centre which provides significant curriculum options within a vocational framework. As such the school values its connection with the wider community and maintains strong links with local industry. Cobar High School is committed to Positive Behaviour for Learning and our values are Respect, Excellence and Safety. This position will form part of a dynamic, motivated and collaborative team of professionals, many being early career teachers.

Staff at Cobar High School are eligible for incentive transfer after 3 years of service, 70% housing subsidy and attract incentives such as 3 personal leave days, mid-term breaks and retention benefits. For more information, please visit the school website Cobar 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.

Rural and Remote Incentives are available for eligible school counselling positions.

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 .

To meet the page limits outlined in the guidelines, all application attachments must be submitted in PDF format. Please note that late applications will not be accepted.

For technical support in applying for the role please contact School Recruitment Support at 1300 863 694.

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