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.

Chullora Public School (CPS) has an enrolment of approximately 392 students and caters to the needs of a low Socioeconomic status (SES) and high Non-English-Speaking Background (NESB) community. Currently there are 3 students across K-6 who identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. 99% of students come from a Language Background Other Than English (LBOTE. Extracurricular activities include PSSA, Breakfast Club, Games Room, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), the Arts and Mathematics (STEAM Education) Reading 4 Life, Speech Pathology, Occupational Therapy, Community Gardening, Robotics and Coding. There are 17 mainstream classes and a Support Unit with 3 classes for students with Autism and special needs. With a focus on explicit teaching, a major aspiration of Chullora Public School is that all students make significant gains in Literacy and Numeracy each year. A dedicated staff hold high expectations for teaching and learning and demonstrate this through commitment to their own ongoing learning, improvement and active engagement as a professional learning community. The CPS parent community highly values education and opportunities for student leadership and the school has a very committed and hard-working P&C. For more information, please visit the school website Chullora Public 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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