Position Information : 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.
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.
Excelsior Public School, current enrolment 565 (with 72% from a non-English speaking background), is located in The Hills area of Sydney.
Excelsior Public School has an experienced and dedicated staff and a proactive and supportive parent community with high expectations for student achievement. School learning spaces include traditional classrooms and open plan learning spaces that operate using a co-teaching model. The school has a strong focus on collective teacher efficacy including collaborative planning, programming and co-teaching. School priorities include high achievement in literacy and numeracy outcomes, and student welfare and enhancing teaching and learning through quality teacher professional learning and explicit teaching. For more information, please visit the school website Excelsior Public School.
- 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 202
- Special Notes : Successful applicants will be provided with a Departmental induction program, ongoing qualified learning and professional supervision.
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.
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📌 School Counsellor - Excelsior Public School (Sydney)
🏢 Teaching Service
📍 Sydney
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