Psychologist

NZ Ministry of Education; Auckland; On-site; NZD 85,000 - 126,000; Part time

Job summary

NZ Ministry of Education, Tamaki Herenga Waka Botany Office, is seeking a permanent Part Time (0.8 FTE) Psychologist to provide equitable psychological services for students with additional learning needs. You will apply a strengths-based approach and collaborate with schools, teachers and whānau to support learning and wellbeing.

Key duties include identifying contributing factors to learning and behaviour, guiding intervention plans, and using data to inform decisions at the school and system

Qualifications

• Experience in a large, complex organisation with multiple stakeholders.
• Proven ability to build relationships and partnerships to achieve shared outcomes.
• Experience working with children, young people and their families across diverse settings.
• Proven counselling, negotiation, mediation and contracting skills.
• Ability to use data and insights to inform decisions at system level.

Responsibilities

• Provide effective, equitable psychological services for students with learning needs.
• Apply a strengths-based approach to support student learning and wellbeing.
• Identify factors influencing learning, behaviour and wellbeing.
• Collaborate with schools, teachers and whānau to develop intervention plans.
• Offer professional guidance to education teams and monitor progress.
• Assess and monitor individual or group intervention plans for students

Skills

Complex organisation experience

Relationship building

Working with families/whānau

Counselling/mediation/contracting

Data-driven decision making

Education

Post-graduate Diploma in Educational Psychology or Clinical Psychology or equivalent

HPCA Act registration

Job description

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NZ Ministry of Education – Manukau City, North Island

We work toshapeaneducationsystem that deliversequitableandexcellent outcomes

Our organisation is made up of talented and committed people around Aotearoa, from a wide range of backgrounds and cultures. While we work in different groups and on different things, we all strive every day to make the biggest difference we can for our ākonga in our education system.

We have Permanent, Part Time (0.8 FTE) Psychologist role available at our Tamaki Herenga Waka| Botany Office.

The role of the Psychologist is to provide effective, efficient and equitable psychological services for the benefit of children and young people with additional learning needs in accordance with the goals, objectives and policies of the Ministry of Education.

As a Psychologist you will:

• 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 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

Salary range:$85,416 – $126,000 per annum plus kiwi saver. The successful candidate will be appointed at a salary which reflects individual skills and experience.

To be successful in this role you will have the following experience:

• 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.

You will also have the following Essential Qualifications:

• Post-graduate Diploma in Educatiional Psychology or Clinical Psychology or equivalent
• Registration under the Health Practitioner’s Competency Assurance Act

Te Mahau takiwā collectively provide leadership and integrated services to the education sector. This includes services such as learning support and education advice and regulation functions for schools and early learning services.

As a frontline group we develop and harness existing relationships with communities at the regional and local level through the Directors of Education, including deep relationships with iwi and hapū.

Our frontline groups are represented at the leadership level of decision making for Te Tāhuhu.The frontline hautū | deputy secretaries hold at least one National Portfolio to complement their frontline role. In Te Tai Raro, our hautū holds the National Portfolio for Pacific Education. This portfolio requires many parts of our organisation to work together to enhance collective impact for Pacific learner success, embedding the shifts in the Action Plan for Pacific Education.

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Applications close: Midnight, Monday 24th August 2026.

We want our people to feel valued for their unique qualities and have a sense of belonging. If you require assistance or adjustments to fully participate in the recruitment process, please let us know.

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