Student Health and Wellbeing - Other

Selection Criteria

SC1: Strategic Development and Implementation: Demonstrated ability to develop, implement, and evaluate programs that foster resilience and improve student wellbeing, engagement, and mental health.

SC2: Counselling and Behaviour Support: Demonstrated experience in conducting direct counselling, behaviour interventions, and providing support services for young people.

SC3: Collaborative Leadership and Communication: Demonstrated capability to lead, influence, and mentor others (including teaching staff) in wellbeing initiatives, alongside exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.

Who May Apply

Required

• Applicants must be qualified as a psychologist, social worker, mental health nurse, occupational therapist or counsellor of a prescribed class. Specifically:
  • For Psychologists, applicants must hold full registration with AHPRA
  • For Mental Health Nurses, applicants must hold full registration with AHPRA and hold a postgraduate qualification in mental health
  • For Social Workers, applicants must be eligible for membership with the Australian Association of Social Workers
  • For Occupational Therapists applicants must hold full registration with AHPRA
  • For Counsellors applicants must have completed a Bachelor or Master of Counselling and be a practising member of either the Australian Counselling Association (ACA) or the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA)
• Demonstrated direct counselling experience
• A current Working With Children Check.

Desirable

• For Psychology applicants, specialisation in educational and/or developmental psychology.