Teacher School Counsellor

2 weeks ago

Sydney, Australia NSW Government -Teaching Service Full time

**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.

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.

Rivendell School is a Centre of Excellence supporting adolescent students with mental health diagnoses in a secondary setting. The school is part of a joint NSW Ministry of Health and Department of Education (DoE) facility, located within the historical Thomas Walker Estate at Concord West and shares the site with the Rivendell Child, Adolescent and Family Mental Health Service. Onsite, Rivendell School provides a positive and inclusive learning environment for students admitted to the Yaralla and Lawson programs of the Rivendell Mental Health Unit. The school also operates two DoE programs for students with an emotional disorder. Paterson program supports students in stages 4 and 5, and the Sulman program supports students in Stage 6. Offsite, Rivendell School staff two learning centres. One is within the Walker Adolescent High Severity Psychiatric Unit in the Concord Centre for Mental Health and the other is at Gna Ka Lun Acute Adolescent Mental Health Unit attached to Campbelltown Hospital. The school provides a high-quality rich curriculum consisting of stage and individualised academic programs, targeted vocational programs, and the opportunity for students to participate in a range of engaging extracurricular activities including sport, cultural and creative arts. Wellbeing is embedded across all programs in the school. Our staff is committed and demonstrate a strong ethos of communication and collaboration within a very supportive and collegial environment.

**Selection Criteria**:
We are looking for School Counsellors with qualifications in Education and Psychology. To be successful in these roles you will have:

- Teaching qualifications and eligibility for an approval to teach in NSW Department of Education schools
- Be a registered or provisionally registered psychologist, or eligible for registration with the Psychology Board of Australia
- Have demonstrated understanding of the mental health needs of children and young people
- Experience in counselling children and young people using evidence-based interventions
- Experience in cognitive, emotional and behavioural assessment of children and young people
- Well-developed interpersonal, oral and written communication skills, including report writing
- Ability to work collaboratively and liaise with key stakeholders to enhance outcomes for children and young people
- Knowledge of and commitment to the Department's Aboriginal education policies

**Conditions**:
Ability and willingness to travel between worksites.

**Special Notes**:
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.

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