School Counsellor

**Location** Illawarra & South Coast

**Advertisement Number** A900119046

**Number of Positions** 1

**Total Remuneration Package**: Remuneration package valued at up to $134,570.00. Base salary ranges from $75,791.00 to $120,322.00, plus leave loading and employer's contribution to superannuation. Base salary rates above the minimum are available depending on experience.

**School Name** Karabar High School

**Principal Network** Queanbeyan

**Staffing Area** Queanbeyan

**FTE** 1.000

**Contact Name** Judy Dougherty

**Contact Phone number** 0459 867 101

**Closing Date** 01-Mar-2023, 5:00:00 AM

**Job Category** Teachers

**Organisation** Teaching Service

**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.

Karabar High School is a partially Selective High school on Ngambri and Ngunnawal lands in Queanbeyan, in the border region of NSW and the ACT.

The school has a current enrolment of 1045 students in years 7-12, including 9% Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and 8% English as an additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D).

Karabar High School is committed to high expectations and opportunities for all. The school provides an inclusive and supportive environment that allows each student to develop to their potential with an academically selective stream Years 7-10, a Performing Arts stream in Stage 4 and six special education classes (MC, IM and Tutorial).

Karabar High School has a proud tradition of ensuring all students have the knowledge and skills required to be productive and contributing members of the local and wider community.

**Specific 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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