Overview
Job Description - School Counsellor - Red Hill Public School (0000B69W). School Counsellor - Red Hill Public School - 0000B69W.
Location
Regional NSW - Tamworth & North West NSW.
Number of Positions
1
Remuneration
Total Remuneration Package: Package valued at up to $182,461. Base salary ranges from $101,122 to $160,983, 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 $160,983; 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.
Responsibilities
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 collegiate role offering opportunities for professional development and making an impact on the lives of children and young people. The successful candidate will be based at Red Hill Public School and will have 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 engagement with a diversity of students and school communities. This is a chance to use your skills to support children and young people at a critical stage of development. School counsellors receive regular, individual professional supervision with the Senior Psychologist Education and participate in group and peer supervision as part of the broader district school counselling team. You will collaborate with school communities, colleagues, and outside agencies, and will have opportunities to use and expand your skills as part of a supportive, multidisciplinary team. School counsellors have access to 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 the Fitness Passport program. The department will also cover indemnity insurance as a psychologist.
Red Hill Public School is located on Wiradjuri lands in Wagga Wagga. The school serves over 370 students P-6, with 38% identifying as Aboriginal and 25% from language backgrounds other than English. The school includes specialist classes, a Departmental preschool, a multi-categorical-style class, and an Early Intervention Centre, and hosts an outreach school for the NSW Centre for Effective Reading Wagga team. Targeted support is provided to students with additional needs through intervention programs in reading and numeracy. The school emphasises professional learning and data-informed decisions to address individual student needs, with a focus on attendance, wellbeing and learning outcomes.
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.
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.
* 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.
Successful applicants will be provided with a Departmental induction program, ongoing professional 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.
Applicants seeking either permanent full time or permanent part time employment are encouraged to apply for this position. If the recommended applicant is seeking permanent part time employment (FTE from 0.1 to 0.9 inclusive), they will be offered an appointment at their desired FTE. Applicants on the eligibility list will be offered the remaining FTE but are not obliged to accept. Further information can be found on the merit selection webpage.
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 all ages and genders, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse groups, the LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, refugees, neurodiverse people and people with disability. If we can make adjustments to our recruitment/interview process to better help you shine, please contact the hiring manager using the contact details provided above. For more information, visit NSW Department of Education Diversity and Inclusion. Merit selection guidelines for classroom teachers, executives and principals provide clear 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. Late applications will not be accepted.
We pay respect to the Traditional Custodians and First Peoples of NSW, and acknowledge their continued connection to their country and culture.
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