Location

Regional NSW-Bathurst & Central West NSW

Number of Positions

1

Total Remuneration Package: Package valued up to $187,933 + incentives (where applicable). Base salary ranges from $104,156
- $165,812
* plus leave loading and employer's contribution to superannuation. Base salary rates above the minimum are available dependent on professional experience. *Note there is no automatic progression to the $165,812 SPAC salary level.

Contact Phone number 0474 859 467

Contact School Admin
- 99999999

Closing Date

28-Oct-2026, 5:00:00 AM

Job Category

School Support Staff

Organisation

School Administrative and Support

Position Information

About the Role
Full Time: 1.0 FTE (Full time equivalent)

Location:
Forbes Public School School psychologists are an essential part of the Department’s school counselling service and work in primary and high schools. They provide counselling and psychological assessment of students, to complement and enhance the work of teachers to strengthen student learning and wellbeing outcomes, and 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 Forbes Public School and provided with opportunities to work across the lifespan with both primary and high school aged students. Working 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 psychologists receive individual professional supervision with the Senior Psychologist Education and participate in group and peer supervision as a member of the broader 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 psychologists are provided with 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 access to a range of leave types, including recreation leave and flex leave, as well as leave loading, travel allowances and health and wellbeing benefits such as our Fitness Passport program. The department will also cover your indemnity insurance as a psychologist while working in our schools. Find out more about working as a school psychologist on the school counselling service pages of the NSW Department of Education website. Forbes Public School is situated on the Lachlan River, on the land of the Wiradjuri people, within the heart of the Forbes community. The school has an enrolment of 360 students,



30% of whom identify as having an Aboriginal heritage. We value diversity and provide quality learning across 14 mainstream classes and 5 special education classes that support students with moderate and/or severe intellectual disabilities (IO/IS), autism (AU), mild intellectual disability (IM) and emotional disability (ED). Our school counsellor plays a vital role in supporting the wellbeing, social, emotional and learning needs of students across both mainstream and support settings. This includes providing counselling, assessment and guidance, collaborating with teachers to enhance classroom practice, and building strong partnerships with families. In line with our Positive Behaviour for Learning culture and Stronger Smarter approach, the school counsellor plays a vital role in fostering a safe, caring, and high-expectations environment where every student is supported to thrive. As part of the wider NSW Department of Education team, the counsellor also connects families with additional services when needed, with sensitivity to the community’s history of drought and flood impacts that continue to be felt. School website Forbes Public School .

Key Accountabilities

- Provides counselling and psychological services to students, individually and in groups, including appropriate short term therapeutic interventions undertaken within the constraints of their training, experience and supervision
- Engages with and implements the procedures of the Qualified Practice Framework for the NSW School Counselling Service
- Works in consultation with the principal, school executive, staff and student support services to improve student learning and wellbeing outcomes and implement current depa

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