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 Forbes 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 skilled 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 advantages 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. 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 320 students, 25% 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). Students at Forbes Public School are supported through a Positive Behaviour for Learning culture, lead collaboratively by a team that ensures a whole school, proactive and shared approach to student wellbeing. This is supported by the Stronger, Smarter approach that enhances the high expectations culture shared between all at Forbes Public School. For more information, please visit the school website Forbes Public School .

- 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.
- 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.

- school holiday leave
- travel allowances
- health and wellbeing benefits such as our Fitness Passport program
- indemnity insurance as a psychologist

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. Successful applicants will be provided with a Departmental induction program, ongoing professional learning and professional supervision.

About the NSW Department of Education The Department of Education is the largest provider of public education in Australia with responsibility for delivering high-quality public education to two-thirds of the NSW student population.

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. If we can make some adjustments to our recruitment/interview process to

📌 School Counsellor (Forbes)
🏢 NSW Department of Education
📍 Forbes