Senior Psychologist, Education

Senior Psychologist, Education - Mannering Park Public School

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

Job Reference 0000B0B2

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

Location Vales Rd, Mannering Park 2259 NSW, Australia

Type Full-Time

Status Permanent

Contact Jo McDonald

0459872185

About This Job

Position Information

The Senior Psychologist, Education coordinates and professionally supervises a team of school counsellors/school psychologists to deliver high quality psychological services to schools. They work closely with schools, other members of educational services teams and agencies to improve student learning and wellbeing outcomes.

The Senior Psychologist, Education provides professional leadership in the delivery of psychological services to school communities and has a key leadership role as part of the networked specialist centres.

Mannering Park Public School is on Awabakal and Darkinjung traditional land and serves a small township located on a peninsular on the southern shores of Australia's largest and most picturesque saltwater lake, Lake Macquarie.

Mannering Park Public School has 200 students enrolled from K–6 and have dedicated staff, who ensure every student is known, valued and catered for through a restorative framework of caring students, committed staff and a connected community. The school receives School Based Allocation Resources (SBAR) funding for Aboriginal Education, socio–economic backgrounds, integration and low-level adjustment for disability and support. The school has an established Emotional Disturbance class (ED) and Multi-Category class (MC).

The school's Aboriginal student population is 20% and the school has strong links with Muru Bulbi, the local Aboriginal Education Consultative Group (AECG). We are a proud member of the muru gul gul community of schools' network and work in collaboration with schools, external service providers, professional groups and learning networks. The wider school community, including an active P&C, is strongly focused on improving student academic outcomes, social and emotional development and improving the capabilities for all students through High Potential and Gifted education. For more information, please visit the school website Mannering Park Public School

General Selection Criteria

• Successful teaching experience with capacity to initiate improvement in teaching, learning and classroom practice
• Knowledge of curriculum, assessment and student welfare with the ability to lead and design quality, inclusive teaching and learning programs
• Educational leadership skills to build the capacity and manage the performance of individuals and teams
• Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills with the capacity to build relationships and engage students, staff and parents
• Ability to plan and manage resources effectively and equitably to support teaching and learning
• Knowledge of and commitment to the Department's Aboriginal education policy
  
  

Specific Selection Criteria

In Addition To The General Selection Criteria

• High level knowledge and skills in the provision of psychological assessment, counselling and evidence-based interventions within a school context.
• Demonstrated capacity to lead, clinically supervise and professionally develop school counsellors/school psychologists, including those working towards registration as a psychologist.
• Demonstrated capacity to build and maintain collaborative relationships with key stakeholders to support the learning and wellbeing of students, including students with complex and diverse needs.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and implement Department of Education priorities and initiatives within the school counselling service and in response to serious incidents
  
  

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

Applicants are to include details of their WWCC clearance number as part of this application.

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.Seniority level

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