School Counsellor Required: Little Chalfont Buckinghamshire
Dr Challoner’s High School
(23 hours over 3 or 4 days per week / Term time only / Some flexibility with hours)
We have a vacancy for a School Counsellor and Mental Health Specialist who will provide a counselling service for students in Years 7-13, as part of our experienced counselling team. The post also includes time devoted to working closely with our collaborative, friendly and highly capable pastoral team, along with the wider school community, to use their expertise to promote mental and emotional health and well-being. The successful candidate will be a team-player, an experienced counsellor, and be passionate about making a really positive difference in our school. They will need to perform duties within the codes of practice and ethics recommended by the BACP, UKCP or equivalent organisation.
Responsibilities include:
* Providing counselling services to students in Years 7-13.
* Collaborating with the pastoral team to promote mental and emotional health.
* Adhering to the ethical guidelines set by professional counselling organizations.
Within the Challoner’s High community you will experience:
* A positive place to work with excellent facilities and IT resources.
* Use of staff gym; free staff yoga and fitness classes on site; staff discounts at local shops and restaurants in Little Chalfont.
* Free flu jabs; some free food; excellent train links to London (on the Metropolitan line).
* Membership of Local Government Pension Scheme.
* Qualified daughters of staff are given priority in the schools over subscription criteria after 2 or more years’ service.
Dr Challoner’s High School is a leading selective state grammar school for girls, with a strong academic tradition and an ambitious outlook for the future. The school has a broad vision for education and is characterised by a highly purposeful pursuit of personal bests, a very strong sense of community, and a keen sense of fun bubbling under the surface. The school was graded Outstanding by Ofsted in November 2023 and was rated as ‘Leading’ in all areas by Challenge Partners in the same year.
The best advert however for working at Dr Challoner’s High School will always be our hugely rewarding students.
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