School Counsellor

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Job Description - School Counsellor - Dareton Public School (0000B1I7)

School Counsellor - Dareton Public School - 0000B1I7

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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 Dareton 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.

Dareton Public School is proudly part of the NSW DoE Connected Communities strategy and is located in the far southwest of NSW. Dareton is an easy 20-minute drive from the regional city of Mildura (pop. 70,000), just across the magnificent Murray River in Victoria. Our beautiful school has a current enrolment of 57 students, of whom approximately 98% identify as Aboriginal. The school's 220 FOEI attracts generous equity funding which enables our school to form small classes. Opportunities within each classroom are further resourced and enhanced with significant in-class support. Dareton PS has been on a significant, long term improvement journey as a Connected Communities school. Engagement in this strategy has enabled the school to drive improved educational outcomes for Aboriginal children and young people. The strategy positions the school as a central hub that broadens the influence of the community and school leadership in the delivery of key services that support children and young people from birth through school into further training, study and employment. School Website - Dareton Public School

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