Position Information

The Department of Education serves the NSW community by providing world-class education from early childhood through to adulthood.

School counsellors work as a member of an interdisciplinary team, working with school and Departmental staff to enhance student learning and wellbeing. They are appointed to a base school and provide psychological counselling services to students in allocated public schools from Preschool to Year 12.

This position will be based at Canterbury Vale School and will work as part of the state-wide Refugee Student Counselling Support Team (RSCST). The RSCST builds the capacity of Departmental staff through consultation regarding counselling and complex case support, the design and delivery of professional learning, and project work to improve supports for students of refugee background in NSW public schools.

You will be required to and be willing to travel between worksites. Travel within NSW will be required.

Selection Criteria

To be successful in this role you will have:

• Teaching qualifications and eligibility for an approval to teach in NSW Department of Education schools
• Registration or provisional registration as a psychologist, or eligibility for registration with the Psychology Board of Australia
• Demonstrated understanding of the mental health needs of children and young people, including those from a refugee background
• Experience in cognitive, emotional, and behavioural assessment of children and young people including those from a refugee background
• Experience working in a cross-cultural context, and the ability to support others in providing evidence-based psychological and therapeutic interventions that improve learning and wellbeing for children and young people from refugee backgrounds
• Well-developed interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills, including report writing
• Ability to work collaboratively with schools, parents, and agencies that support students and families from a refugee background
• Knowledge of and commitment to the Department’s Aboriginal education policies

Conditions

An unconditional full approval to teach is a requirement. 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.

All Department of Education employees working in an SSP are required to be vaccinated as outlined at Vaccination requirements for school sites (nsw.gov.au). The successful candidate for this position will be required to confirm vaccination status prior to the department finalising their appointment and entry on duty. Find the department’s latest advice on COVID-19 (coronavirus) at https://education.nsw.gov.au/covid-19.

Special Notes

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

This advertisement is for two Teacher School Counsellor – Refugee Student Support positions.

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, 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 ([email protected]) 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

Please apply online at www.iworkfor.nsw.gov.au. Job reference: 000098P7. Applications close at 4:00pm, Wednesday 9 November 2022.

For more information, please contact Lisa Warner on telephone 0457 188 128 or via email to [email protected]