School Counsellor

Our Counsellor Practitioner supports the school's approach to student health, including mental health and wellbeing. The Counsellor promotes children's and young people's positive mental health by helping adults know how to be and what to do in response to their differing and sometimes distressed behaviour. You will help to identify children's needs, and co-ordinate and contribute to meeting them. Counsellors will be an integral part of our Health Academy which is part of our Learner Engagement Team. The Learner Engagement Team is led by a School Leader, who provides the overall direction for the faculty, but the Health Academy and the Counsellor will operate independently on a day to day basis.

Candidates will have the ability to lead, develop and evaluate specific interventions, and previous experience of working with children is a learning environment is essential. You should be able to support, inspire and motivate students as well as have the ability to work well as part of a lively and professional team.,

• GCSE English and maths Grade C/4
• Experience of working with children in a learning environment
• Experience of planning and delivering mental health related support
• Relevant responsibility in an educational setting
• Ability to collaborate and work as part of a team
• Knowledge of physical health needs and interventions
• Knowledge of nutrition and diet and how these impact on physical and mental health
• Ability to lead, develop and evaluate specific interventions
• Ability to lead workshops and group sessions with students and parents
  
  A hard working and committed team of colleagues
• Beautiful, historic school location, with a good range of shops, bars and cafes within a
short walk
• National Green Book Terms and Conditions of Employment
• Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Regular programmes of professional development to Teacher Development Trust
Gold Standard
• Support for and commitment to your future training and development needs
• On-site free car parking
• Cycle to work salary sacrifice scheme
• Annual free flu vaccination
• 24/7 employee assistance wellbeing scheme
We are seeking to appoint the best possible candidate and our recruitment process will reflect our desire to undertake all possible measures to achieve this. The Henry Box School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have enhanced DBS clearance and will need to undertake the DBS check with our organisation. Other relevant pre-employment checks will also be carried out including references from present and previous employers, a confidential health check and internet/social media checks.