Student Counsellor

Occupation: Education and training

Location: Melbourne - Southern suburbs

Reference: 1497845

Location Profile

Brentwood Secondary College is located in the eastern Melbourne suburb of Glen Waverley. The College has a student population of 1560 with almost equal numbers of boys and girls. Brentwood is a vibrant learning community where all students are supported and encouraged to achieve success and to pursue excellence. A learning community is one in which all members of the community are continually learning, both individually and together; and where everyone is continually striving to improve.

The values that underpin the behaviours of the Brentwood Secondary College community include the values for community: compassion, empathy, integrity, respect and responsibility; and the values for learning: creativity, curiosity, discipline, reflection and resilience.

Brentwood Secondary College prides itself on academic excellence and excellent pastoral care. Students are supported in their intellectual, emotional, social and physical development by a highly professional group of teachers and education support staff. While the College focus is very much on academic excellence the belief that happy, healthy, resilient students learn best and achieve their best is a guiding philosophy.

- Demonstrated capacity to supervise Tertiary Wellbeing Students on placement at Brentwood
- Highly developed counselling skills and experience in counselling adolescents presenting with a range of issues who may be self‑referred, teacher or parent referred.
- Knowledge of case management and student support strategies, with a demonstrated capacity to deliver a comprehensive wellbeing service to students and families in an educational setting.
- Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to work collaboratively and network with the wide range of people within the education and wider community.
- Demonstrated ability to actively promote the safety and wellbeing of all students in line with the Child Safe Standards.

Role

Counselling of Complex Needs Students

- Provide one on one counselling for high risk and/or complex needs students
- Risk assessments on student crisis
- Assess and implement approach to crisis management of students

Case Management

- Refer students and families to external mental health service providers
- Collaborate with external mental health service providers
- Develop, implement and review case management plans for complex needs students
- Communicate case management plans and build partnerships with House leaders, Heads of Houses and other relevant stakeholders
- Attend SSGs and case review meetings
- Attend weekly House meetings
- Manage and allocate referrals from parents, HoS, SMs and teaching staff

Daily Organisation/Supervision of the Wellbeing Placement Program

- Co‑ordination and oversight of placement students
- Conduct daily meetings with placement students
- Conduct interviews with placement students and allocate roles
- Ongoing training and development of placement students
- Daily supervision of placement students as per the requirement of the placement student's tertiary institution
- Develop and maintain positive working relationships with university placement co‑ordinators
- Collate relevant data and statistics of Wellbeing activities
- Record and review case notes
- Ongoing communication with parents, teaching staff, House Hub
- Daily reporting to Wellbeing team and Assistant Principal – Director of Wellbeing

Any other duties as directed by the Principal or delegate.

Professional Development:

- Maintain awareness of current best practice in your area of work, DET and in secondary education
- Undertake ongoing professional learning and development
- Participate in professional development opportunities within areas relevant to your role
- Support continuous improvement, evaluation and evidence‑based innovation in school programs

College Community:

- Develop positive interpersonal relationships with students, staff and the wider College community
- Participate in the culture and life of the College.
- Support colleagues in their work.
- Participate in specific meetings of school committees as required.
- Make contributions to the Daily Bulletin, College newsletters, annual magazine and other school publications as appropriate.

Responsibilities

- Manage the design and production of school publications and documents.
- Provide professional student support services, e.g. therapist and psychological and counselling services.
- Provide strategic advice on specific support services and their impact on students, school curriculum and services.
- Manage the use of and access to school resource and reference material.

Who May Apply

Individuals with the aptitude, experience and/or qualifications to fulfill the specific requirements of the position.

Diversity and Inclusion

The department is committed to diversity and inclusion and developing a workforce that is representative of the community we service. We value diversity and inclusion in all forms – culture, gender, religion, ethnicity, LGBTIQA+, disability and neurodiversity. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates are strongly encouraged to apply for roles within the Department.The Department recognises that the provision of safe, respectful and inclusive workplaces is essential to high performance and promotes flexible work and diversity across all schools and Department workplaces.It is our policy to provide reasonable adjustments for staff with disability (see Workplace adjustment guidelines ).

Additional support and advice on the recruitment process is available to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander candidates from the Koorie Outcomes Division (KOD) via marra@education.vic.gov.au

Applicants seeking part‑time employment are encouraged to apply for any teaching service position and, if they are the successful candidate, request a reduced time fraction. Such requests will be negotiated on a case‑by‑case basis and will be subject to the operational requirements of the school.

Child Safe Standards

Victorian government schools are child safe environments. Our schools actively promote the safety and wellbeing of all students, and all school staff are committed to protecting students from abuse or harm in the school environment, in accordance with their legal obligations including child safe standards. All schools have a Child Safety Code of Conduct consistent with the department's exemplar available at:

The department's employees commit to upholding the department's Values: Responsiveness, Integrity, Impartiality, Accountability, Respect, Leadership and Human Rights. The department's Values complement each school's own values and underpin the behaviours the community expects of Victorian public sector employees, including those who work in Victorian Government Schools. Information on the department values is available at:

- All staff employed by the Department and schools have access to a broad range of employment conditions and working arrangements.
- Appointment of successful applicants will be made subject to a satisfactory pre‑employment conditions check.
- A probationary period may apply during the first year of employment and induction and support programs provided.
- All staff employed by the Department and schools have access to a broad range of employment conditions and working arrangements.
- Appointment of successful applicants will be made subject to a satisfactory pre‑employment conditions check.
- A probationary period may apply during the first year of employment and induction and support programs provided.
- Detailed information on all terms and conditions of employment is available on the Department's Human Resources website at http://www.education.vic.gov.au/hrweb/Pages/default.aspx

Applications close Wednesday 22 October 2025 at 11.59pm

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