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**About the School**:
Mudgeeraba State Special School is an Independent Public School that is invested in providing personalised learning pathways for each student to ensure we succeed while enacting our school motto 'Happiness through Achievement'.
The passion of both the students and teachers is evident in our school community through quality teaching happening in every learning environment. There is no surprise that our school has earned a well-deserved reputation as a school of choice. Our community has high expectations and the capacity to deliver quality programs, while ensuring we care about every student and member of our school community.
**About the Role**:
**As the Guidance Officer, your responsibilities will be to**:
- provide guidance and counselling services to students and their families to help guide students' personal and social development
- identify individual's barriers to learning and help plan support programs
- provide advice about education and career pathways, and can help define and coordinate a career pathway
- work directly with students in addition to working with a student's teachers, school support personnel, family, other specialists or external support providers
- provide advice and counselling on educational, behavioural, vocational, personal, social, family, and mental health and wellbeing issues
- complete psychoeducational assessments and career development also form an important part of the work guidance officers undertake to enhance positive educational outcomes and career pathways for all students
- provide leadership, support and case management in responding to some of the most complex and challenging of circumstances including student protection matters, critical incidents, mental health issues, and suicide prevention and postvention support
- deliver a diverse range of skills and knowledge and an ability to form strong and productive relationships with key stakeholders in order to develop and implement plans and programs that are responsive to the needs of students
Guidance officers will deliver a broad range of services to school community members. You will contribute to the development of a comprehensive student support and wellbeing program that is responsive to the needs of the school community. If you are someone who is motivated to join the leadership team to deliver the vision of our school community and to develop our people and culture, then we would love to hear from you
**Interested? To apply**:
- Attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (one of whom should be your current supervisor)
- Attach a maximum 2 page written response outlining your suitability for the role referring to the key capabilities identified in the attached role description.
Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department.
Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.