Work Type: Ongoing - Full-time
Salary: $100,894 - $114,476
Grade: AH3
Occupation: Education and training
Location: Melbourne - Western suburbs
Reference: VG/DE/SRS/1957180
About the role
Seeking an exciting opportunity to work in a multidisciplinary support team, with flexibility, hybrid working conditions, and the opportunity to build and share your skills and knowledge across a variety of experiences and activities? Join our Student Support Services (SSS)Team at the Department of Education. Our SSS team work closely, together and with our schools to enhance and enable successful student wellbeing and educational inclusion across their educational experience. This is an opportunity to guide your own work and work directly with students across ages, in your area of interest, such as disability, neurodiversity, inclusion and be part of a team that works to enhance positive outcomes for students.
The Student Support Services (SSS) Psychologist In collaboration with schools, provides high level psychology support services to school age students to improve student learning. Undertake advanced wellbeing and edcutaional assessments, reports, startegies and interventions that support students, parents and schools. Assist the coordination of student support services within a multi-disciplinary team. Contribute to student wellbeingand educational policy development. Provides leadership, professionally and operationally, within a multi-disciplinary student support team. Support teachers in the development of educational programs, particularly in respect to students with additional needs. Advise and direct team members in respect to complex cases, including Inclusion such as breaking the link between learning needs, disadvantage and student achievement. Provide authoritative professional advice in relation to issues involving student wellbeing. Collaborate with and provide advice to other student support services team members in respect to complex cases. Contribute to the professional development of other psychologist support service team members. Liaise with community service organisations, DFFH, hospitals, specialist programs and other professionals regarding the support needs for students. Providing consultative service and intervention for schools to respond effectively to critical incidents. Delivers Health, Educational and Wellbeing contact services via regular meetings with key contact schools to enhance school tiered level responses for educational outcomes for all. Undertakes advanced wellbeing interventions that support students and school educational programs, including the identification of broad wellbeing and inclusion needs and effective strategies to address these within the school and community.
Delivers Health, Educational and Wellbeing contact services via regular meetings with key contact schools to enhance school tiered level responses for educational outcomes for all.
Attributes
Extensive experience in the initiation, development and implementation of wellbeing support programs that foster resilience in children and young people and address their social, emotional and educational needs. Capacity to provide leadership to professional team members. Strong communication skills and the ability to influence others involved in the wellbeing of children and young people. Capacity to broker, design and deliver professional learning within a student support services team and other professionals, such as teachers. Capacity to manage the delivery of student wellbeing services. Highly developed capacity to assess, conceptualise and analyse more complex student wellbeing issues that translate to improving student support services.
Qualifications and Experience
A graduate or post-graduate qualification in psychology or equivalent, Essential must have: Full registration as a psychologist with the Australian Health Practitioners Registration Agency (AHPRA) with Psychologist work experience.
Further Information
For more details regarding this position please see attached position description for the capabilities to address in application.
The department values diversity and inclusion in all forms - gender, religion, ethnicity, LGBTIQ+, disability and neurodiversity. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. For more information about our work, working for the Department, diversity and inclusion, and our employment conditions visit the Department website and our Diversity and Inclusion page
Applicants requiring adjustments can contact the nominated contact person.
Information about the Department of Education's operations and employment conditions can be located at www.education.vic.gov.au.
For further information pertaining to the role, please contact Claire Appleby via [email protected].
Preferred applicants may be required to complete a police check and may be subject to other pre-employment checks. Information provided to the Department of Education will be treated in the strictest confidence.
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Applications close 11:59pm on Wednesday 25th November, 2026.