School Counsellor

**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.

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.

Lindfield Learning Village (LLV) is a K-12 school with an entitlement of 58 teaching staff and 11 non-teaching staff. LLV has a current enrolment of 814 students, with our community demographic including 8 students of First Nations background, and 365 students with a language background other than English. LLV is considered a flagship school for NSW Public Education (Deloitte Business case 2019), implementing an educational model which includes stage-not-age progression and student-directed, transdisciplinary learning. Human-centred learning design supports individual, personal pathways for every student. All teachers are required to work in a collaborative co-teaching environment and to engage in researching their own practice.

The school seeks to establish a culture which builds relationships based on transparency, honesty and mutual respect, where all members of the school community support each other and where we respect others' expertise, experience and points of view, and listen with an open mind. Visit the school website Lindfield Learning Village

**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.

**Special Notes**:
**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.

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