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School Counsellor - Oxley Park Public School

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Permanent full-time job at Oxley Park Public School (Oxley Park, New South Wales, Australia) recruited via NSW Department of Education (Sydney NSW, Australia)

Job Reference 0000B15K

Closing date September 10, 2025, 2 a.m. (AEST)

Location Adelaide St, St Marys 2760 NSW, Australia

Type Full-Time

Status Permanent

Contact Lauren Askew

0436 848 652

About This Job

Position Information

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 truly collegiate role offering unique challenges and opportunities – both in your professional development and your ability to make an impact on the lives of children and young people.

The successful candidate will be based at Oxley Park Public School and provided with 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 you to engage with a diversity of students (and school communities) like no other child and adolescent psychologist role can. This is a chance to use your skills to make a real difference in the lives of children and young people at a time in their lives when it matters most.

School counsellors receive regular, individual professional supervision with the Senior Psychologist Education and participate in group and peer supervision as a member of the broader district school counselling team. You will most likely be collaborating with a number of school communities and colleagues, as well as outside agencies, with the opportunity to use and expand the full range of your skills and expertise as part of a supportive, multidisciplinary team.

School counsellors are provided with regular opportunities to participate in 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 our Fitness Passport program. The department will also cover your indemnity insurance as a psychologist.

Oxley Park Public School has 640 students enrolled P–6. Our motto of learning together for the future underpins our diverse and welcoming school community. Our school is open and inclusive supporting our culturally diverse population of students identifying as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (11%) and language background other than English (60%). The school was awarded a Nanga Mai award for outstanding programs to meet Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families.

Our dedicated and experienced staff work collaboratively to provide high quality teaching and learning in well resourced-learning spaces. The school is strongly supported through Instructional leadership with two APCI's

The provision of additional learning programs such as Speech Therapy, Bounce Back, Smiling Minds and additional support staff across the school supports the needs of the whole child.

The school has an active P&C that operate the canteen. The school has strong links with the community, in particular working with Mission Australia. This partnership is continuing to develop with events, playgroup, parent courses and whole school activities. The school supports and engages with a Chaplain to support student wellbeing. For more information, please visit the school website Oxley Park Public School

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.
  
  

Special Notes

This position commences on the 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 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 and people with disability. If we can make some adjustments to our recruitment/interview process to better enable you to shine, please contact the Diversity and Inclusion Team (dandi@det.nsw.edu.au) 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.

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