Student Counsellor

Location: Melbourne | Eastern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time / From 28/01/2025 - 31/12/2025

Organisation: Schools (Government)

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Education and Training

Reference: 1433903

**Selection Criteria**:

- 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 manage a range of complex wellbeing-related incidents and ensure that all relevant processes are followed (school-based, Department of Education and other legislative requirements).
- Demonstrated ability to actively promote the safety and wellbeing of all students in line with the Child Safe Standards.

**Role**:
**Key Responsibilities**:
**Counselling of Complex Needs Students**
- Provide one on one counselling for high risk and/or complex needs students
- Risk assessments on student is crisis
- Assessing and implementing 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 building partnerships with House leaders and Heads of Houses and other relevant stakeholders
- Attend SSG¿s and case review meetings
- Attend weekly House meetings
- Manage and allocate referrals from parents, House Hub staff, 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

**Administrative tasks**
- Collate relevant data and statistics of Wellbeing activities
- Record and review case notes
- Ongoing communication with parents, teaching staff and 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.

Range 3 is distinguished by the introduction of management responsibility and accountability for the delivery of professional support services. The role will usually impact beyond the work area or professional field. It seeks to gain cooperation of other staff members or members of the school community to achieve specific objectives, such as in school administration, operations or educational programs.

Direction on targets and goals is provided but the position will have some degree of latitude in determining how they are achieved. This latitude will generally be limited by standard procedures and school policy. Deviation from standard procedures and school policy will require guidance and direction from senior management.

The provision of business management responsibilities becomes a feature at range 3. Management of staff to achieve the expected outcomes is a key responsibility. Staff management issues will be resolved with mínimal reference to senior management, although guidance will be required in more complex cases. Senior management will be provided with timely reports and advice, although this will generally be confined to matters relating to the immediate work area, service provision or educational program and is unlikely to impact substantially on whole of school operations.

This is the minimum range for positions that carry a mandatory qualification requirement of not less than four years. Professional student support positions