4 Healthcare Recruitment are welcoming expressions of interest for schools based psychologist role in Melbourne's western suburbs
18th June, 2025
4 Healthcare recruitment are a specialist allied health recruitment agency, partnering with clinician and client partners to create positive healthcare outcomes for the people of Australia.
4 Healthcare Recruitment partner closely with a variety of education settings, including but not limited to Independent schools, Catholic schools and special education needs settings. We use our extensive backgrounds in education recruitment, combined with our current specialisation in allied health to help schools to expand their wellbeing teams.
Ciara Timbs | Schools Psychologist specialist | is partnered with a leading school in Melbourne's western suburbs for the recruitment of their newest wellbeing team member. With a more recent uptake in mental health services from young people within the education system, this school is expanding their wellbeing team to increase the availability of counselling, intervention and assessment services.
This school caters to high school aged children, in a mainstream education setting and has a focus on wellbeing. The Counselling Service, as part of a wider pastoral care program, takes a holistic approach and provides an experience for students that enhances both emotional and physical well being
Responsibilities
* Counselling & interventions; have relevant experience in counselling around a range of mental health issues, as well as school and behavioural issues
* have experience in conducting psycho-educational assessments
* write reports with effective recommendations and work collaboratively with both internal and external stakeholders
* Team work; as a member of School Staff provide psychological input to the development, implementation and evaluation of school or system learning programs, goals and outcomes
* Providing professional learning to other schools employees to build capacity of education professionals and families to improve students' learning and developmental outcomes
Qualifications & Skills
* Registration with AHPRA; full registration preferred, and an educational and developmental endorsement will be highly regarded
* Experience working with young people, preferably in a mental health context
* Excellent communication skills, and an understanding of ethical responsibilities and confidentiality
* Experience conducting assessments and diagnostics, as well as experience working with more complex cases
* Ability to work as part of a wider school community, including working with other education staff, wellbeing team members, with families, and school leadership teams
Benefits
* School based hours; experience true work life blend with school based hours and limited after school commitments
* Term time only roles | School holidays - extended leave
* Full and part time opportunities
* Remuneration; 90-120k plus super
If you are an experienced schools psychologist, or a psychologist looking to move in to an education setting please reach out to organise a confidential discussion with Ciara on ********** or ******************
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