Wellbeing Health Professionals

Metropolitan Region North and South are seeking to employ Guidance Officers - Student Wellbeing as part of the department's commitment to expanding its wellbeing workforce under the Student Wellbeing Package initiative.
Guidance officers employed in this role will provide direct support for primary and secondary students' mild to moderate mental health difficulties. They will add to the support already available to students at their school and become an integral part of the school's existing school-based support team.
While guidance officers - student wellbeing are being employed under the department's generic guidance officer role description, this is a specialist role whose day-to-day activities and responsibilities align with the aim of the Student Wellbeing Package.

**Priorities of the role include**:

- Identification, support and therapeutic intervention planning for students' mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
- Provide advice and counselling on educational, behavioural, vocational, personal, social, family and mental health and wellbeing issues for students with mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
- Provide support and ensure safety plans for the school context are implemented for students who are self-harming and/or at risk of suicide.
- Support promotion, prevention, awareness and capability building regarding mental health and wellbeing within the school community and school leadership teams.
- Collect data relevant to the role of Guidance Officer - Student Wellbeing, including:

- collecting pre
- and post-intervention data from students and their families regarding the student's mental health and the impact of this on their overall functioning; and
- recording this data, alongside other key data, on a tracking tool for regional and state-wide data collection purposes.

Supervision and support
- The Guidance Officer - Student Wellbeing will be supervised by a Senior Guidance Officer in their region.
- The Guidance Officer - Student Wellbeing will be further supported by the Student Wellbeing team in their region and State Schools - Operations (DoE central office) to foster coordination and consistency of practice within and across the regions.

This is a permanent Guidance Officer position under the student wellbeing package.

**A mandatory requirement of this role is**:

- Current full registration as a teacher in Queensland. For more information please CLICK HERE.
- Teachers working in Education and Care Services(including State Delivered Kindergarten programs) require an exemption card issued by Blue Card Services. For more information please CLICK HERE.

AND one of the following;
- Completed coursework Masters, majoring in guidance and counselling, or an equivalent completed coursework Masters including study in the areas of psychoeducational assessment, counselling and mental health. OR
- General or provisional registration as a psychologist through the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) Psychology Board. OR
- an Australian Psychology Accreditation Council (APAC) accredited four or five year qualification in psychology that will enable general registration as a psychologist following completion of a board approved internship or accredited sequence of study.
- A brief resume no more than two pages including contact details for two referees (one of who should be your current supervisor)
- A maximum two page written response outlining your suitability for the role referring to the role priorities outlined in the GO Student Wellbeing - Additional Information document and key capabilities identified in the attached role description.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.