School Counsellor - Palm Avenue School (NSW Centre for Effective Reading) - 0000BG6N .

Location

Sydney Region Advertisement Number A900160737

Number of Positions

1 Total Remuneration Package: Package valued at up to $187,933. Base salary ranges from $104,156 to $165,812, 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 $165,812 - 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 Name Palm Avenue School Principal Network Girraween Staffing Area Parramatta FTE 1.000 Contact Name Melissa Moss Contact Phone number 0474 859 467 Contact School Admin - 99999999

Closing Date

25-Nov-2026, 5:00:00 AM

Job Category

TCH Other

Organisation

Teaching Service 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.

The successful candidate will be based at Centre for Effective Reading (CER) 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 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 chance 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.

The NSW Centre for Effective Reading (NSW CER) is a NSW Department of Education and NSW Health initiative. NSW CER is a state-wide provision for students referred from eligible government and non-government schools. NSW CER supports primary aged, rural and remote students with complex reading difficulties who have been accepted for support.

NSW CER has hubs located in Dubbo, Wagga Wagga and Lindfield with a multidisciplinary team consisting of Speech Pathologists, Psychologists and specialist teachers to provide the best support and intervention for students. A comprehensive assessment (either face-to-face or remotely) is provided by a multidisciplinary team. These results form the personalised interventions for each student.This includes staff training in program implementation, regular monitoring and feedback, personalised learning meetings, direct intervention, targeted professional learning and class-based strategies.

Reading intervention is provided for 12 months and adjustments to the intervention are made throughout in response to student progress. For more information, please visit the school website Palm Avenue School - NSW Centre for Effective Reading.

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.
- Highly competent in using technology to support the delivery of telepsychology.

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 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.

Special Notes Palm Avenue School (NSW Centre for Effective Reading) is relocating to Lindfield College in Sydney commencing from 2027. The successful applicant will be based at the CER Lindfield site. Applicants may also request to work from the CER Wagga or Dubbo sites, an approved NSW government school or a Department of Education office, subject to operational requirements.

The successful applicant must be prepared and able to travel to hubs, rural and remote schools and Sydney for Professional Learning.

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

Find out more 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.

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

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 better help you shine, please reach out to the contact person for this recruitment, details listed above.

For more information, visit the NSW Department of Education’s Diversity, equity and inclusion webpage.

Merit selection application guidelines for classroom teachers, executives and principals provide explicit advice for applicants and selection panels. The guidelines are available here.

To meet the page limits outlined in the guidelines, all application attachments must be submitted in PDF format. Please note that late applications will not be accepted.

For technical support in applying for the role please contact School Recruitment Support at 1300 863 694.

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