Senior Psychologist Education - Nuwarra Public School

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.

Nuwarra Public School opened in 1974 and has over 500 students currently enrolled. Included in this number are 19 mainstream and 8 Special Education Classes (5 Hearing Support and 3 Autism Mild/Moderate intellectual disability). It is situated in the Chipping Norton Network within the suburb of Moorebank, New South Wales.

Nuwarra Public School provides a differentiated and innovative environment where the school and community work in partnership to achieve quality learning experiences within a culture of high expectations and inclusivity.

The core values of Nuwarra Public School are an acceptance of difference and a movement from tolerance to understanding. This is accomplished within a safe, nurturing environment emphasising the importance of respect, cooperation and the recognition of every student's right to equitable access of the curriculum. We provide opportunities for all students to reach their full potential academically, socially, physically and emotionally ensuring that all students are known, valued and cared for.

Nuwarra is an active member of the Moorebank Community of Schools. Our school has a diverse population comprised of students from many cultural and socio–economic backgrounds.

Our school supports PBL (Positive Behaviour for Learning), taking a pro–active approach to behaviour by explicitly teaching behavioural expectations in all school settings. We uphold the expectations of be safe, show respect and always try.

Nuwarra Public School offers a balanced approach to school life. We value participation while striving for excellence. As life–long learners, staff and students actively embrace the integration of technology across the curriculum.

Nuwarra Public School – Excellence. Innovation. Opportunity.

In addition to the general selection criteria:

• Successful experience as a school counsellor and registration as a psychologist.
• High level knowledge and skills in the provision of psychological assessment, counselling and evidence based interventions within a school context.
• Demonstrated capacity to lead, support and professionally develop school counsellors/school psychologists, including those working towards registration as a psychologist.  
• Demonstrated capacity to establish interagency partnerships to assist schools to meet  the wellbeing needs of students, in particular those students needing psychological intervention and support.  
• Demonstrated ability to implement school counselling strategies to support Department of Education initiatives.

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

• 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.
• Ability and willingness to travel between worksites

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.