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.

Mulwaree High School is a large comprehensive rural high school in Goulburn, comprising of 850 students, including 5 support classes. The student population comprises 9% Aboriginal students and 5% EASL/D. The school has a staff with a diverse range of experience and offers a wide academic curriculum as well as catering extensively to the interests of all students in sport, academia and the arts. A strong emphasis is placed on literacy and numeracy across the whole school and positive growth in NAPLAN has been seen over the past few years.
Mulwaree High School has strong community links and promotes a number of leadership opportunities for students and staff. The student body is capably represented by six student leadership teams.
The school has a strong focus on building student pride in learning and creating a culture of continual improvement and high expectations. Mulwaree High School is committed to the values of kindness, resilience, respect, responsibility and opportunity and aims to develop young people who make a positive difference as good citizens. For more information, please visit the school website Mulwaree High School.

**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**:
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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