[Immediate Start] School Counsellor

Location

Regional NSW - Bathurst & Central West NSW

Advertisement Number

A900149010

Number of Positions

1

Remuneration

Total Remuneration Package: up to $182,461. Base salary $101,122 to $160,983, plus leave loading and employer's contribution to superannuation. Base salary rates above the minimum are available depending on experience. Note: there is no automatic progression to $160,983 - SCAC. Access to SCAC is available once a school counsellor has progressed through salary steps and upon successful application for Advanced Certification level against the NSW School Counselling Service PPF.

Role overview

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.

Based at

The successful candidate will be based at Blayney High 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.

Supervision and collaboration

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.

Professional development and benefits

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.

Blayney High School is a small rural comprehensive school in the Central West of NSW situated within a 40-minute drive from two larger regional towns (Bathurst and Orange). The school population is steady at approximately 300 students inclusive of 12.85% Aboriginal students and approximately 27% students with additional needs. Over 70% of students are from low SES backgrounds. Students come from a wide area, many from the small rural villages and the local town-based schools known as the Heritage Schools Learning Community.

Blayney High School has an excellent reputation within the education districts and wider community and has a strong tradition of providing an inclusive education that not only addresses the academic needs of the students but provides opportunities and wellbeing programs to support all students to achieve their best. Blayney High School has a very committed teaching, administrative and executive staff with a range of experience. Student leadership and participation in sports, the arts, school service and community are actively developed. In addition, Blayney High School has a highly successful learning community, with collaborative projects, such as renaissance reading and feedback based on quality success criteria, which have contributed to the overall development of all students. School website Blayney High 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.

This position commences on 27 January 2026.

This is a permanent full-time position 1.0 FTE (Full-time equivalent). 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.

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.

Note: Applications must be lodged electronically. No paper-based applications will be accepted

We pay respect to the Traditional Custodians and First Peoples of NSW, and acknowledge their ongoing connection to country and culture.

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