Student Support Team
Regents Park State School has a Student Support Team that consists of the Guidance Officer, Social Worker, Speech Language Pathologist, Head of Special Education Services, Deputy Principals and Principal. If you have a concern regarding your child's progress, you can discuss this with your child's teacher, who will refer your child and their needs to the Student Support Team for advice and follow up actions.
Guidance Officer
The School Guidance Officer works three days a week. Guidance Officers employed as a wellbeing
professional may:
▪ Provide wellbeing support and counselling to students
focused on prevention and early intervention.
▪ Provide individual and small group counselling, and
therapeutic intervention to students on a range of
issues, including those related to: - mental health concerns - personal relationships - stress - school attendance and engagement with the
curriculum - family issues.
▪ Provide support and ensure safety plans for the school
context are implemented for students who are self
harming and/or at risk of suicide.
▪ Apply their understanding of the mental health
continuum to identify when students require additional
mental health support outside of the school context
and provide referrals to external agencies.
▪ Support and monitor students following a critical
incident or emergency to support wellbeing.
▪ With student agreement, work with other wellbeing
and school staff to ensure strategies developed with
the student can be put in place in the classroom and
school community.
▪ Provide support to students as they transition into
alternative education programs and settings and
reintegrate back into mainstream schooling.
Social Worker
The Social Worker works three days per week. Social workers employed as a wellbeing professional
may:
▪ Use evidence-based intervention strategies to support
young people experiencing challenges with mental
health, and social and emotional wellbeing.
▪ Provide therapeutic counselling and support through
individual or group sessions, utilising specific
psychological strategies to address mild to moderate
mental health concerns.
▪ Apply strengths-based, person-centred and trauma
informed frameworks to work alongside students to
maximise their engagement with education.
▪ Identify individual strengths and challenges, and
provide support to students to overcome barriers in
relation to school attendance.
▪ Provide support and ensure safety plans for the school
context are implemented for students who are self
harming and/or at risk of suicide (when the social
worker has relevant mental health training).
▪ Support students and parents/carers in communicating
with the school and accessing support within the
community.
▪ Identify when students need additional support and
provide appropriate referrals, within the school or to
external agencies, and facilitate access to this support.
▪ With student agreement, work with other wellbeing
and school staff to ensure strategies developed with
the student can be put in place in the classroom and
school community.
Chaplaincy Program
Our Chaplaincy Program is funded by the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations through the National School Chaplaincy and Student Welfare Program.
The Chaplaincy Program is voluntary and assists our school to support the spiritual, social and emotional wellbeing of students. This can include support and guidance about ethics, values, relationships and spirituality; the provision of pastoral care; enhancing engagement with the broader community. Chaplains cannot induct children into a certain religion or faith.
The Chaplaincy Program is not to be confused with the support provided by the Guidance Officer. At Regents Park State School the Chaplain does not provide counselling services to students and or parents, these matters must be referred to the school's Guidance Officer.