School Counsellor
YMCA DownsLink Group, Horsham
School Counsellor
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YMCA DownsLink Group, Horsham
- Part time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted 2 days ago, 16 Nov | Get your application in today.
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: c887e6b1b1ba4ea0b9766aca2fd6e64f
Full Job Description
- Run a suitable appointment system flexible to the needs of the school, offering students appropriate assessments and counselling appointments
- Manage the tight time boundaries of the role and the often complex and varied workload
- Liaise with school staff over referrals, waiting lists and appointments
- Carry out initial clinical and risk assessments and establish appropriate referral pathways with other services where appropriate. Continually assess risk throughout each student's counselling.
- Follow YMCA Dialogue safeguarding procedures; to know who the School's Designated Safeguarding Officer/s is and how to contact them when a safeguarding concern arises
- Work at all times within the BACP Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions
- Maintain individual membership of the BACP and to become a Registered Member (or other professional body such as HCPC)
- You will establish good professional working relationships with key school staff, Please note we're not responsible for the content of job ads, as they're posted by the recruiter. We'll aim to resolve the reported issue and we'll use your feedback to improve the quality of our ads.
We are recruiting for an experienced and qualified counsellor with experience of working with young people to join our team and deliver the school counselling service at Millais School, a girls' secondary school in Horsham, West Sussex. We are seeking a qualified counsellor who is passionate about making a difference to lives of the children and young people they work with. You will have a keen interest in and experience of working with young people of secondary school age., You You will have a Counselling or Psychotherapy qualification, minimum Level four and ideally Level six, and two years' post qualifying experience in individual counselling or therapy with young people. This will include working with risk issues - You will also have a sound understanding of child protection and vulnerable adult safeguarding issues, policies, and procedures
- You will have proven experience in safeguarding children and young people; responding to, managing, and referring safeguarding issues
- You will have a BACP Membership; BACP Registered or Accredited. Or other professional body e.g. HCPC
- You will have a keen interest in working with children and will be familiar with using creative therapeutic approaches, along with experience of working in a school setting
15 hours per week / £33,130 per annum pro rata / Permanent - term time only / Working Tuesday and Wednesday 8.30am - 4.30pm. Our mission is to help children and young people have a fair chance to be who they want to be. We do this by providing a safe home, increasing life skills and self-confidence, and improving emotional wellbeing and mental health. Established in 1996, Dialogue School Counselling is a BACP accredited school counselling service covering Sussex and Surrey. Dialogue has built an excellent reputation with schools, professionals and commissioners and the service has developed and expanded over the years, now operating across Brighton & Hove, East and West Sussex, and Surrey. Dialogue has built an excellent reputation with schools, professionals and commissioners and the service has developed and expanded over the years, now operating across Brighton & Hove, East and West Sussex, and Surrey.