Student Wellbeing and Support Specialist
We are seeking a highly skilled Student Wellbeing and Support Specialist to join our team.
* This role is responsible for providing psychological services to students, ensuring they have the support needed to succeed academically, socially and emotionally.
* The successful candidate will be a psychologist registered with AHPRA with experience in supporting students from the ages of 3 to adulthood.
The key responsibilities of the position include:
Key Responsibilities
1. Providing recommendations and evidence for Disability Inclusion Profiles.
2. Providing advice and professional learning programs to others, including teachers and other school wellbeing staff, to build capacity and improve students' wellbeing, learning and developmental outcomes.
3. D deliver and facilitate professional support services within the school, including mental health prevention and early intervention practices (including short-term counselling) that promote student social, emotional and educational development and the mental health and wellbeing of students.
4. Planning and implementing evidence-based intervention strategies for students with complex needs including collaborating with families, other professionals and agencies when appropriate to effectively manage risk.
5. Facilitating effective working relationships and partnerships with parents, school staff and external support agencies, involving a multidisciplinary approach to provide comprehensive support, case management and a referral service that optimises students' access to and engagement in educational programs.
6. Collaborating with staff to develop intervention strategies that enhance student learning, behaviour and mental health outcomes.
7. Working collaboratively to enhance mental health prevention and promotion across the school by ensuring policy and procedures for student protection, educating students with disabilities, behaviour support, the containment of critical incidents and mandatory record keeping are implemented.
8. Providing leadership and support in response to student protection issues and complex mental health incidents and emergencies, including the development and implementation of responsive programs for school and student needs.
9. Balancing the ethical issues of consent, privacy and confidentiality for each student with appropriateness of sharing information with others and maintain a comprehensive and professional record-keeping system that complies with policy and the legal requirements for access to these official records.
10. Maintaining professional competence through continued participation in regular professional supervision sessions and relevant professional development.
EEO AND OHS Commitment
Applications are encouraged from all qualified candidates. The Department of Education is committed to diversity and inclusion.