Senior Psychologist Education

The Senior Psychologist, Education coordinates and professionally supervises a team of school counsellors/school psychologists to deliver high quality psychological services to schools. They work closely with schools, other members of educational services teams and agencies to improve student learning and wellbeing outcomes.

The Senior Psychologist, Education provides professional leadership in the delivery of psychological services to school communities and has a key leadership role as part of the networked specialist centres.

Coomealla High School (Student enrolments of 240, 44% Aboriginal students) is located on Barkindji country in the Wentworth Shire, close to the Victorian regional hub of Mildura.

As a Comprehensive High School, it offers a broad curriculum from Year 7 to 12 in a caring and friendly environment where teachers know their students and focus on academic achievement and wellbeing, in a positive school culture. The school has a dedicated team of teaching, counselling and learning support staff, with a Support Unit of 4 classes (3 x MC and 1 x IM) and a flexible learning class for small group learning.

The school benefits from working closely with the Parents and Citizens Association the local Aboriginal Education Consultative Group and the School Reference Group and is committed to building these connections. The school is committed to building transition to work skills, connections in the community and successful pathways to life beyond school.

With the inclusion in the Connected Communities Strategy, a major focus for the school is to improve equity outcomes with focused learning support and raised achievement and cultural safety for all students, the embedding of cultural awareness in all classrooms and the development of a school environment that embraces local Aboriginal culture and history and meaningful interaction with community. Visit the school website Coomealla High School

In addition to the general selection criteria:

• High level knowledge and skills in the provision of psychological assessment, counselling and evidence-based interventions within a school context.
• Demonstrated capacity to lead, clinically supervise and professionally develop school counsellors/school psychologists, including those working towards registration as a psychologist.
• Demonstrated capacity to build and maintain collaborative relationships with key stakeholders to support the learning and wellbeing of students, including students with complex and diverse needs.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and implement Department of Education priorities and initiatives within the school counselling service and in response to serious incidents

• Successful teaching experience with capacity to initiate improvement in teaching, learning and classroom practice
• Knowledge of curriculum, assessment and student welfare with the ability to lead and design quality, inclusive teaching and learning programs
• Educational leadership skills to build the capacity and manage the performance of individuals and teams
• Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills with the capacity to build relationships and engage students, staff and parents
• Ability to plan and manage resources effectively and equitably to support teaching and learning
• Knowledge of and commitment to the Department's Aboriginal education policy

• Be a registered or provisionally registered psychologist, or eligible for registration with the Psychology Board of Australia.
• Ability and willingness to travel between worksites.
• This position is under the Teachers award (Crown Employees (Teachers in Schools and Related Employees) Salaries and Conditions Award To be eligible to apply, you must have an unconditional, full approval to teach or have eligibility to apply for an approval to teach. If you do not hold a full approval to teach with the NSW Department of Education, you are required to commence the application process at the same time as you apply for this teaching opportunity.

This position commences on the 03 February 2026

Applicants seeking either permanent full time or permanent part time employment are encouraged to apply for this position. If the recommended applicant is seeking permanent part time employment (FTE from 0.1 to 0.9 inclusive), they will be offered an appointment at their desired FTE. Applicants on the eligibility list will be offered the remaining FTE but are not obliged to accept. Further information can be found on the merit selection webpage.

Applicants are to include details of their WWCC clearance number as part of this application.

About the NSW Department of Education

The Department of Education is the largest provider of public education in Australia with responsibility for delivering high-quality public education to two-thirds of the NSW student population. We welcome applications from all ages and genders, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse groups, the LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, refugees and people with disability. If we can make some adjustments to our recruitment/interview process to better enable you to shine, please contact the Diversity and Inclusion Team ) or visit NSW Department of Education Diversity and Inclusion

New merit selection application guidelines for classroom teachers, executives and principals have been introduced to provide greater clarity to applicants and selection panels. The guidelines are located here. To ensure that your application complies with the guideline page limits, your attachments must be in PDF format. Note: Applications must be lodged electronically. No paper-based application will be accepted.