Educational Psychologist — Supporting Learning & Wellbeing

New Zealand Government; Christchurch; On-site; NZD 86,000 - 117,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

KiwiSaver

Job summary

The Ministry of Education in Christchurch is seeking a permanent full-time Psychologist to provide effective, equitable services for children with additional learning needs. You will work with schools and families, applying evidence-based interventions and collaborating to support learner goals.

You will also assess, plan and monitor intervention plans, using data to inform decisions and promote inclusive practices across education settings.

Qualifications

• Experience in a complex organisation.
• Experience in building relationships and partnerships to achieve shared outcomes.
• Working effectively with children and young people and their families/whānau across a diverse range of settings.
• Proven experience counselling, negotiating, mediation, and contracting.
• A proven ability to use data and insights to identify trends, risks and opportunities, to influence and guide organisational and system-level decision making.

Responsibilities

• Apply a strengths-based approach.
• Identify patterns or contributing factors that may be influencing learning, wellbeing and behaviour.
• Enhance inclusive practices in early learning services, schools, kura and other educational settings.
• Collaboratively support progress with learner goals.
• Provide professional support and guidance to schools, teacher and parents/caregivers/whānau and in collaboration, support the development and implementation of intervention plans.
• Assess, analyse, hypothesise, collaboratively plan, support and monitor the implementation of individual (or group) intervention plans for students who have additional learning needs.

Skills

Counselling

Negotiation

Mediation

Contracting

Data-informed decisions

Education

Master's level qualification / Postgraduate Diploma in Educational Psychology or Clinical Psychology

Tools

Driver's licence

Job description

The Ministry of Education in Christchurch is seeking a permanent full-time Psychologist to provide effective, equitable services for children with additional learning needs. You will work with schools and families, applying evidence-based interventions and collaborating to support learner goals.

You will also assess, plan and monitor intervention plans, using data to inform decisions and promote inclusive practices across education settings.