About This Role
This School Psychologist role at St Jerome’s is a key part of a team that helps develop and grow a diverse school community. The psychologist contributes to individual, community, and whole-school well-being, working closely with staff, students, and the wider school community. The role involves a degree of autonomy while also working consultatively and collaboratively as a valued member of the school staff.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to building and sustaining well-being at individual, community, and whole-school levels
- Work collaboratively and relationally with staff, students, and the wider school community
- Exercise a degree of autonomy
- Work consultatively and collaboratively as an integrated and valued member of the school staff
- Support engagement and well-being through direct service provision
- Support the development and implementation of documented plans
- Provide staff consultation and support
- Develop, support, and implement whole-school initiatives
Requirements
- Eligible for registration as a psychologist (provisionally registered psychologists will be considered)
- Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain respectful and effective professional relationships based on subsidiarity and co-responsibility
- Demonstrated ability to utilise a consultative and collaborative process while working with others
- Demonstrated ability to work independently within professional boundaries
- Demonstrated capacity to actively seek out supervision with an openness and responsiveness to feedback to evaluate intervention effectiveness and adapt intervention goals and methods as required
- Maintain registration as a psychologist (or work towards this if provisionally registered)
- Adhere to professional standards and ethical practice
- Actively seek professional supervision and development
- Demonstrate a commitment to the ethos of the school
- Seek (and/or maintain) accreditation and faith formation requirements of Catholic Education WA
