Psychologist - Metropolitan North Region, Education

Join the Department of Education Student Wellbeing Workforce and make a real difference by supporting school teams to assist students with mild to moderate mental health concerns, while enjoying work-life balance in a supportive and inclusive workplace that values your contribution.

Apply now to help strengthen student wellbeing across our schools.

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About the Role

As part of the Queensland Government's Student Wellbeing Workforce, we aim to ensure every Queensland state school student has access to a wellbeing professional. The focus of the role is to provide support for students with mild to moderate mental health concerns. Wellbeing professionals employed through the Student Wellbeing Workforce work as part of schools' established student support teams to enhance the wellbeing and mental health support available to students.

Queensland state schools offer a unique and rewarding setting where you can enjoy flexible family-friendly work schedules while being part of our established workforce of experienced wellbeing professionals. We are recruiting wellbeing professionals to work in state schools with vacancies in the Metropolitan North region.

We are seeking to fill various HP3 Psychologist permanent and temporary roles across primary and secondary state schools in the Metropolitan North region, with the possibility of extension.

As a school-based Psychologist and a specialist member of a multi-disciplinary team, you will offer therapeutic support to students with mild-to-moderate mental health concerns including:

• Provide professional support and information for students, parents, carers and school communities that facilitate partnerships in decision making for the enhancement of all students' learning.
• Provide services such as counselling, assessment and intervention, focusing on students' mental health and wellbeing.

The school-based Psychologist reports to the base school Principal for operational and administrative matters. They report to regional Senior Advisor/s, Psychology and/or Senior Psychologists the for all professional practice and clinical matters.

Your Responsibilities

As the Psychologist, your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Undertake individual and group counselling and therapeutic interventions with students, parents and families to assist them in resolving personal or relationship concerns.
• Provide advice on diagnoses provided by external professionals and monitor students' progress.
• Administer specialised psycho-educational assessment of students with learning and/or adjustment difficulties including assessments of cognitive, academic, behavioural, emotional, social and adaptive functioning.

Please refer to the attached role description for the full list of responsibilities and mandatory requirements for this position.

Interested? To Apply

• Attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should be familiar with your relevant work history).
• Attach a written statement (2-page maximum) in response to the attached role description.

We welcome all applicants to share any support needed to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive.

Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department.

Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.