School Counsellor – Pitt Town Public School (0000BCCY)

Location

Sydney Region

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Number of Positions

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Total Remuneration Package: Package valued at up to $182,461. Base salary ranges from $101,122 to $160,983, 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 $160,983 – 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 Pitt Town Public 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 from the Senior Psychologist 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 perks 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.

Pitt Town Public School is a dynamic, caring and inclusive learning community in the Windsor Network of schools with a current enrolment of 262 students with 11 mainstream classes – Kindergarten to Year 6. The student population has 5% of students representing a range of cultural backgrounds and 10.7% of the school population represented by Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander students. In 2025, a Multicategorical Support class is being established. The core values of the school are underpinned by the Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL) Framework – safe, respectful, responsible learners and includes a restorative practices approach. Pitt Town PS has a strong focus on explicit teaching and using evidence-based teaching practices to deliver highly engaging numeracy and literacy lessons. We are committed to collaborative practices where teachers work together in teams to improve student learning outcomes, led by the executive staff, including the Assistant Principal Curriculum and Instruction (APCI). Visit the school website Pitt Town Public 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 work sites. 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.

Applicants are to include details of their WWCC clearance number as part of this application – WWCC must be NSW.

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.

Equal Opportunity Employer – 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.

We pay respect to the Traditional Custodians and First Peoples of NSW, and acknowledge their continued connection to their country and culture.

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📌 School Counsellor - Pitt Town Public School (City of Sydney)
🏢 Nsw Government
📍 City of Sydney