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.

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 career 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 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 mainland 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 Professional 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 departmental priorities
- Contributes to the social, emotional, and academic development of students, and supports schools and students with complex behavioural needs
- Administers cognitive, social, emotional and behavioural assessment of students, reports on the results of assessments and interventions and collaborates to improve learning, wellbeing and mental health outcomes
- Works collaboratively with learning and support teams, parents and carers, and other agencies, to develop appropriate school based support for students
- Responds as part of a team to assist schools experiencing serious incidents
- Refers students and/or their families and carers to other agencies that will support the development of student health and wellbeing outcome

Essential Requirements

- Knowledge of and commitment to the Department’s Aboriginal Education Policy , Partnership Agreement with the NSW AECG Inc. and the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy
- General or Provisional Psychology Registration with the Psychology Board of Australia
- Valid and current Working with Children Check clearance – WWCC must be NSW<

📌 School Psychologist – Forbes Public School (Bathurst)
🏢 NSW Department of Education
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