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About this job
Position Information
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.
This position may be eligible to be relocated to another base in Albury, Wagga Wagga, Newcastle or Coffs Harbour for the successful candidate. For clarification and further information, please contact the panel convenor.
This Senior Psychologist Education position will provide professional leadership to the state-wide Refugee Student Counselling Support Team (RSCST) to build the capacity of Departmental staff in the provision of direct, secondary, and tertiary refugee support across NSW public schools. The team builds staff capacity by providing complex case support and designing and delivering professional learning and resources. The team also delivers tailored interventions to support the safety, wellbeing and belonging of students of refugee background.
General Selection Criteria
- 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
Specific Selection Criteria
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 from refugee backgrounds.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and implement Department of Education priorities and initiatives within the school counselling service and in response to serious incidents
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.
- Successful experience as a school counsellor and registration as a psychologist.
- Ability and willingness to travel between worksites. Travel within NSW may be required.
Special Notes
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 (dandi@det.nsw.edu.au) 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.