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.

Boorowa Central School is a beautiful farming village in Hilltops region Southwest Slopes of NSW. Its main industry is agriculture, located 3 hours southwest of Sydney, northeast of Canberra within 30 min of Young and Yass.
Our School is vibrant and inclusive with around 270 students. Approximately 14% of the students identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. It acknowledges and celebrates the Ngunnawal and Wiradjuri cultures who are the traditional owners of the land within the school and broader community. The school is staffed by a blend of experienced, enthusiastic teachers who deliver high quality, teaching and learning activities. Teaching staff and students are very well supported by exceptional SLSO's and SASS. The school has a focus on instructional leadership to target student growth in Literacy and Numeracy from K12. Students have access to state of art technology in every learning space and excellent facilities, a Commercial Kitchen, Trade Training Centre, with resources that provide opportunities for students in K-12 to experience 'hands-on' learning in a range of curriculum areas.
We are committed to continuing to strengthen strong partnership with local community. With a strong focus on 'raising caring, resilient young people who are community-minded and strive for individual success'. School website Boorowa Central 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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