Psychologist

Job Description
Location: Melbourne | Eastern Metropolitan
Job type: Full time / From 28/01/2025 - 27/01/2028
Organisation: Schools (Government)
Salary: Salary not specified
Occupation: Health and Allied Health
Reference: 1449382
Location Profile
Dandenong South Primary School (DSPS) is located in the South-Eastern Victoria Region, thirty-nine kilometres from Melbourne. The school is bordered by residential, commercial and industrial zones. The school has a kindergarten onsite coordinated in partnership with the City of Greater Dandenong and Best Chance Child Family Care. Facilities include a state of the art gymnasium, music room, a performing arts space, award winning Learning and Discovery Centres, modernised classrooms, enviable school grounds, a double storey classroom building and a Community Hub.
The school is divided into five sub-schools; Foundation, Year 1, Year 2, Years 3 and 4 and Years 5 and 6. We pride ourselves on maintaining small class sizes along with a highly experienced teaching staff so that we can provide the best possible teaching and learning environment for our students. Dandenong South Primary School also invests in an array of student support programs in Mathematics, Reading, Writing, oral language and wellbeing. This helps in creating personalised pathways to success for all our students. The programs offer intervention as well as enrichment opportunities to students at each grade level. An Allied Health team consisting of a Psychologist, a Speech Pathologist and an Occupational Therapist also work with identified students across the school. Specialist areas include Indonesian as LOTE, visual arts, performing arts and physical education. Intensive swimming programs and visiting sports organisations provide coaching sessions that complement our Physical Education and Health curriculum.
The spacious playgrounds are well established with plenty of shade areas provided by established trees and shade sails over the junior and senior playground equipment as well as three large sandpits. We also have extensive soccer pitches, a football and cricket oval, netball court, basketball court, several decked outdoor spaces, a school garden, a covered bike shed, a sensory garden and a reclusive courtyard area where students have opportunities to engage in physical exercise and leisurely activities.
We are proud to have a diverse student cohort where majority of our students have a language background other than English. To meet the needs of the students who predominantly speak English as an additional language (EAL), the school offers a range of literacy intervention programs. These include first phase and second phase EAL programs, LEAP (Literacy Enhancement Assessment Program) oral language, Speech Therapy Assistants (STA), phonological awareness, and reading and writing programs. The school has a Play Based Learning approach through its Investigations program in Foundation to Year 2 classrooms. Inquiry Learning consolidates this approach in Years 3-6. We ensure each and every student is learning at a standard and in a manner that will maximise their chances of successful, sustained and enjoyable learning. Our NAPLAN results over the past five years have shown that students at our school usually perform better than their peers in similar schools, acknowledging the effective teaching and learning practices at the school. Through our continued focus on literacy and numeracy, we anticipate that this positive trend will continue.
Dandenong South Primary School offers a well-resourced before and after school program. Additionally, DSPS offers a variety of after school programs.
The school continues its relationship with a number of partnering organisations to provide a Community Hub, which offers playgroup, English language classes and other programs tailored to the needs of the local community. The Hub offers support to families by familiarising them with the school setting and builds relationships with school staff to provide a safe, supportive and accessible venue for a range of community services.
At Dandenong South Primary School, our vision is to provide students with a positive and engaging learning environment which will equip them with the knowledge, skills and social competencies they need for the future. We want our students to become respectful and responsible citizens who positively contribute to society.
Selection Criteria

SC1 Suitable experience in the initiation, development and implementation of programs, procedures and policies that foster resilience in children and young people and address their physical, social and emotional needs to support their educational needs.
SC2 Capacity to provide advice to the school leadership team regarding the delivery of a range of wellbeing support services to school students.
SC3 Ability to provide professional learning that informs and influences the work of others involved in the engagement and wellbeing of students, such as other wellbeing support staff and teachers.
SC4 Highly developed capacity to assess, conceptualise and analyse student wellbeing issues that translate to improving student support services.
SC5 Highly developed communication, networking and interpersonal skills enabling effective liaison with a range of people in the education community and beyond.

Role

Provide high level psychology support services to school age students to improve student learning.
Undertake advanced wellbeing interventions that support students and schools.
Assist the coordination of student support services within a multi-disciplinary team.
Contribute to student wellbeing policy development.
Provide leadership, professionally and operationally, within a school environment.
Support teachers in the development of educational programs, particularly in respect to students with additional needs.
Provide authoritative professional advice in relation to issues involving student wellbeing.
Collaborate with and provide advice to DET student support services team members in respect to complex cases.

Responsibilities

Manage the delivery of support services to students, teachers, parents and other school clients.
Ensure all external providers deliver the required service.

Who May Apply
Individuals with the aptitude, experience and/or qualifications to fulfill the specific requirements of the position.
EEO AND OHS Commitment
Applicants seeking part-time employment are encouraged to apply for any teaching service position and, if they are the successful candidate, request a reduced time fraction. Such requests will be negotiated on a case-by-case basis and will be subject to the operational requirements of the school.
The Department of Education is committed to the principles of equal opportunity, and diversity and inclusion for all. We value 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 roles within the Department. The Department recognises that the provision of family friendly, supportive, safe and harassment free workplaces is essential to high performance and promotes flexible work, diversity and safety across all schools and Department workplaces. It is our policy to provide reasonable adjustments for persons with a disability.
Child Safe Standards
Victorian government schools are child safe environments. Our schools actively promote the safety and wellbeing of all students, and all school staff are committed to protecting students from abuse or harm in the school environment, in accordance with their legal obligations including child safe standards.
DE Values
The department's employees commit to upholding the department's Values: Responsiveness, Integrity, Impartiality, Accountability, Respect, Leadership and Human Rights. The department's Values complement each school's own values and underpin the behaviours the community expects of Victorian public sector employees, including those who work in Victorian Government Schools.
Other Information
All staff employed by the Department and schools have access to a broad range of employment conditions and working arrangements.

A graduate or post graduate qualification in psychology or equivalent is required.
Registration with the Australian Health Practitioners Registration Agency (AHPRA).
Appointment of successful applicants will be made subject to a satisfactory pre-employment conditions check.
A probationary period may apply during the first year of employment and induction and support programs provided.

Conditions of Employment

All staff employed by the Department and schools have access to a broad range of employment conditions and working arrangements.
Appointment of successful applicants will be made subject to a satisfactory pre-employment conditions check.
A probationary period may apply during the first year of employment and induction and support programs provided.


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