School Counsellor - Monaro High School

NSW Department of Education; Cooma; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional supervision

School holiday leave

Travel allowances

Fitness Passport

Indemnity insurance

Job summary

The NSW Department of Education invites applications for a school counsellor based at Monaro High School in Cooma. You will provide counselling and psychological assessment to support student learning and wellbeing, collaborating with teachers and families to understand and manage mental health needs.

The role offers professional supervision, ongoing CPD, and participation in a multidisciplinary team. Travel between worksites is required.

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.
• 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 requires unconditional full approval to teach or eligibility to apply for an approval to teach.

Responsibilities

• Provide counselling and psychological assessment for students.
• Collaborate with teachers, families and outside agencies to support learning and wellbeing.
• Participate in supervision and professional development within a multidisciplinary team.
• Contribute to planning and wellbeing initiatives across school communities.
• Prepare case formulations and reports to inform student support strategies.

Skills

Counselling

Psychological assessment

Collaboration

Travel

Driver's licence

Registration eligibility

Job description

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 Monaro 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. Monaro High School is a comprehensive rural high school located in Cooma that proudly serves the communities of the Monaro district. Our 382 students from Year 7 -12 come from a range of cultural and socio-economic backgrounds providing an inclusive and diverse school community. The school offers a quality academic, vocational curriculum and student wellbeing support to accommodate all students. Monaro High School is committed to gaining the best possible educational outcomes for all students, with the school’s current strategic directions of Student Growth and Attainment, High Impact Teaching and Wellbeing core to our practice. Monaro High School boasts state of the art facilities thanks to recently completed, multi-million dollar upgrade. Facilities include a 350 seat performing arts centre, innovation hub including professional standard recording and digital media studios and indoor 3 court sports centre. Specialised outdoor play area for students with disabilities and contemporary teaching spaces are found throughout the school. Situated in the beautiful town of Cooma, the school is conveniently situated between Canberra, the Snowy Mountains ski fields and the South Coast. For more information, please visit the school website Monaro High School.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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. 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.