Applications close Wednesday 19 February 2025 at 11.59PM
Overview
Work type: Part time Salary: Salary not specified Grade: Ed Support Level 1-Range 4 Occupation: Health and Allied Health Location: Eastern Metropolitan Reference: 1464592
Selection Criteria
1. Demonstrated affinity and enthusiasm for working with young people including evidence of experience in counselling or outreach support for students in youth orientated environments, particularly secondary schools, training organisations or youth support services.
2. Evidence of exceptional interpersonal and communication skills to effectively liaise with teaching staff, school administration and also a range of community agencies.
3. Demonstrated ability to identify issues and barriers that could prevent students from achieving future success, and to assist school leavers to develop strategies that will empower them.
4. Evidence of excellent organisational and management skills, demonstrating comprehensive ICT skills, an ability to work independently and as a proactive member of a small dynamic team.
5. Evidence of the ability to produce clear, comprehensive notes and reports for individual case work enabling cross team access for consultation, decision making and action plans.
Role
This role encompasses aspects of welfare, mental health and current teenage issues in a multicultural, highly academic select entry school environment. The provision of support and counselling, including crisis management, at both an individual and group level is the key component of this role. Development and encouragement of supportive relationships with students, the school community and outside agencies including initiation and presentation of wellbeing programs are included in the role. A clear understanding of the issues of privacy, confidentiality, and the school’s position in terms of mandated responsibilities is expected to always form the basis of counselling and support. The role requires a minimum of individual supervision on a day-to-day basis but is dependent on team consultation and decision making. The role forms an integral part of a dynamic student wellbeing team enabling a group support approach for highly aspirational, focused students from Year 9 -12.
Responsibilities
This role has student but no staff supervisory responsibilities.
Act in accordance with guidelines, processes and policies whilst always maintaining confidentiality and privacy.
Provide counselling services for highly aspirational students on an individual basis, including liaison with parents, regarding welfare and academic progress concerns.
Respond to crisis situations as they arise, implementing timely and appropriate support for students, families and staff. This may include assisting with risk assessments and safety plans.
Facilitate and support restorative practices, group conflict resolution and/or mediation sessions, mental health and all general youth counselling including referral to outside agencies as required.
Provide staff with ongoing feedback and personal support to strengthen relationships between student support services and teaching practices.
Develop effective referral and communication processes including maintaining accurate case notes and records of all counselling and interview sessions.
Work in a multi-disciplinary wellbeing and inclusion team, to build the capacity of the team to support student achievement, engagement, and wellbeing. Provide advice and professional development for staff.
Act as a resource person for students, families and staff. Establish and maintain effective networks with external providers, and assist staff, students and families to access those services.
Liaise with other Department areas (including secondary school nurses and Student Support Services staff) and external service providers where necessary to provide support to students.
Provide a supportive environment to facilitate both classroom and individual activities, counselling and personal development for individual and student groups.
Other duties as directed by the Principal.
Who May Apply
Required Qualification
For Social Workers, applicants must be eligible for membership with the Australian Association of Social Workers.
Have demonstrated direct counselling experience.
Have a current Working with Children Check.
Applicants must be qualified as a psychologist, social worker, mental health nurse or occupational therapist.
Please note:
Continued professional learning is a registration requirement under the National Law, which governs the operations of the National Boards and Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).
Conditions of Employment
This vacancy is to replace an employee on parental absence and is for a period of seven years or until the employee absent on leave returns to duty at the school.
Location Profile
Nossal High School is committed to being an innovative, inclusive, and dynamic educational environment. We challenge ourselves to be creative and critical thinkers with good communication skills and the resilience necessary to succeed in an ever-changing world. We build skills, self-confidence, leadership abilities and community spirit through a rigorous, rich, and varied curricular and co-curricular program. We want our graduates to be ambitious, ethical, and responsible citizens who conduct themselves with humility and compassion.
Nossal High School Values:
- Leads and develops leadership
- Creates and cultivates creativity
- Is respectful and fosters respectful citizenship
- Inspires and seeks inspiration
- Is ethical and develops ethical behaviours
- Pursues excellence and celebrates individual progress
- Develops resilience and independence and nurtures wellbeing
- Encourages a strong work ethic with an emphasis on personal growth
The Nossal High School Motto - 'Embrace the Challenge' is a phrase that instils the hope and high expectations we have for Nossal students to grow in intellectual, social, physical and leadership pursuits.
Nossal High School was established in 2010 as the first co-educational fully academically selective Government school in Victoria. Along with the only other three academically selective schools, it forms the Victorian Select Entry Network of schools. Located in the urban growth corridor on the grounds of Federation University Berwick campus, the school draws enrolments from right across the Melbourne metropolitan area and into regional areas and offers programs for students in Years 9 - 12 only. Entry is competitive and via a common entry exam administered through VCAA and an independent testing company. Students in Year 8 or equivalent can apply to sit the exam for entry into Year 9 for the following year and can preference up to three of the schools. Enrolments are capped at 208 per year level for a school total of 832. Retention rates are very high with very few students leaving the school prior to year 12 completion and nearly all students exit to university.
Applications close Wednesday 19 February 2025 at 11.59PM
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