School Counsellor - Moree Secondary College Albert Street Campus

Educationhq; Sydney; Vor Ort; AUD 65.000 - 90.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Rural and Remote Incentives

Professional supervision

Induction program

Zusammenfassung

NSW Department of Education seeks a School Counsellor based at Moree Secondary College Albert Street Campus to provide counselling and psychological assessment for students, supporting teachers and families in learning and wellbeing goals.

The role is part of a collaborative district school counselling team, offering professional supervision and opportunities to engage with diverse student communities, with rural incentives and induction support available.

Qualifikationen

• Experience using evidence-based counselling interventions.
• Experience conducting psychological assessments of children and young people.
• Ability to collaborate with schools, families and external agencies.

Aufgaben

• Provide counselling and psychological assessment to students to support learning and wellbeing.
• Work across primary and high school aged students within a multidisciplinary team.
• Engage with school communities to improve attendance and engagement.

Kenntnisse

Counselling

Psychological assessment

Collaboration

Ausbildung

Registered psychologist

Jobbeschreibung

School Counsellor - Moree Secondary College Albert Street Campus

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 Moree Secondary College Albert Street Campus and be 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.

Moree Secondary College is situated on Gamilaroi country and is part of the Connected Communities Strategy. We service the students from the agricultural region surrounding and within the township of Moree (town population 7,000). Our college services approximately 390 college students, of which, 67% identify as ATSI (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander).

The college is committed to creating connected classrooms with staff who have completed targeted professional learning to strengthen their knowledge and understanding of assessment capable visible learners. We continue to create strong connections with the school community to improve attendance and engagement inclusive of Moree community groups, Moree Local AECG, and external agencies. Our college is located in the centre of Moree which also hosts outstanding recreation, sporting, banking, performing arts, and shopping facilities. For more information visit the school website Moree Secondary College Albert Street Campus.

About this job

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 Moree Secondary College Albert Street Campus and be 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.

Moree Secondary College is situated on Gamilaroi country and is part of the Connected Communities Strategy. We service the students from the agricultural region surrounding and within the township of Moree (town population 7,000). Our college services approximately 390 college students, of which, 67% identify as ATSI (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander).

The college is committed to creating connected classrooms with staff who have completed targeted professional learning to strengthen their knowledge and understanding of assessment capable visible learners. We continue to create strong connections with the school community to improve attendance and engagement inclusive of Moree community groups, Moree Local AECG, and external agencies. Our college is located in the centre of Moree which also hosts outstanding recreation, sporting, banking, performing arts, and shopping facilities. For more information visit the school website Moree Secondary College Albert Street Campus.

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

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

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. For more information, visit the NSW Department of Education’s Diversity, equity and inclusion webpage.