Location
Central & North Coasts - Newcastle & Hunter Valley-Port Macquarie & Mid-North Coast
Number of Positions
1
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 - 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.
The successful candidate will provide counselling and psychological assessment to complement and enhance teachers’ work to strengthen student learning and wellbeing outcomes, and help families manage their children’s learning and mental health needs. This is a truly collegiate role offering unique challenges and opportunities for career development and impact on the lives of children and young people.
Based at Taree West Public School, the role offers opportunities to work with students from primary to high school ages, engaging with a diversity of students and school communities. School counsellors receive regular individual and group supervision, collaborate with school communities and outside agencies, and participate in continuing professional development. The NSW Department of Education supports completion or maintenance of registration with the Psychology Board of Australia. Benefits include school holiday leave, travel allowances, the Fitness Passport program, and indemnity insurance coverage.
Taree West Public School serves 507 students, including 112 Aboriginal students, in an 48,000‑person regional town. The school is a Positive Behaviour for Learning school with core values of respect, responsibility, care and kindness.
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.
This position commences on 27 January 2026
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.
This is a permanent full‑time position 1.0 FTE (Full‑time equivalent).
About the NSW Department of Education
The Department of Education is the largest provider of public education in Australia, 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 and people with disability. If we can make adjustments to our recruitment/interview process to better enable you to shine, please contact the Diversity and Inclusion Team ( ) or visit NSW Department of Education Diversity and Inclusion.
New merit selection application guidelines for classroom teachers, executives and principals have been introduced to provide greater clarity to applicants and selection panels. The guidelines are located here. To ensure that your application complies with the guideline page limits, your attachments must be in PDF format.
Note: Applications must be lodged electronically. No paper‑based application will 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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