Creative Arts Phychotherapist (Online)

TCES National Online School, Wimbledon, SW19 4EE

9 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  March/April

• Closing date

  15 February 2026 at 10:59pm

• Date listed

  5 February 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £44,101.00 - £49,447.00 Annually (Actual)

Creative Arts Phychotherapist (Online) job summary

We are seeking a skilled and passionate Creative Arts Psychotherapist, with art or music specialism, to join our National Online school. In this virtual role, you will deliver therapeutic provision to pupils (aged 7-19) across the UK who are unable to access mainstream education.

TCES National Online School delivers online therapeutic education to pupils with complex co-morbid needs, including pupils with neurodiverse identities, social and emotional mental health needs, and Autism, which have presented barriers to them accessing mainstream school-based education, including multiple exclusions.

You will provide a specialised contribution (art or music) to the clinical assessment and psychotherapeutic treatment, as part of our multi-disciplinary therapy team and wider therapeutic offer to our pupils. Additionally our therapists hold a caseload of children with significant trauma and adverse childhood experience who require a more specific, bespoke, and at times intensive, input. To ensure a consistent therapeutic practice across the provision, you will work closely with the teaching and inclusion teams to meet the needs of the young people they work with and support them to engage in learning, providing advice on moderating the learning environment, as well as scaffolding a therapeutic understanding & culture through training, workshops and general promotion of therapeutic practice to all staff.

Essential requirements to be successful in the role are:

• A champion of therapeutic support and advocate for young people, with similar values to ours: Expect the very best from each other; Develop a strong work ethic; Respect and appreciate all difference; Include everyone and exclude no one; Listen to and involve everyone; Never give up on each other!

• Resilient and robust, role modelling outstanding professionalism.

• Hold HCPC registration with a recognised Creative Arts Psychotherapy (Art / Music) degree qualification and further professional development accreditations.

• Substantial demonstrable experience in successfully working with vulnerable young people, those with complex mental health needs and/or those with challenging behaviours.

• The ability to plan and coordinate sessions online, proficient with communication and supporting sensory progress for pupils through universal and intensive therapeutic offers.

• Proficient digital skills, including a good understanding of IT systems and the ability to use them effectively as a member of an online school.

• Creative and innovative, whilst maintaining principles of clinical governance.

• Organised with attention to detail.

• Proactive and innovative, collaborating with team members in other disciplines, whilst also with the ability to work flexibly and independently.

In return we offer:

• An opportunity to join a leading, accredited provider of online specialist education, directly contributing to the positive outcomes for pupils.

• Competitive terms and conditions, with the opportunity to deliver clinical provision outside of TCES schools, as well as support train staff and parents in therapeutic principles through Great Minds Therapy and Training Services.

• Continuing Professional Development: paid comprehensive training for all staff.

• IT equipment: Chromebooks and mobiles supplied as well as technical support where necessary.

TCES, NOS and Great Minds are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils and expects all staff to share this commitment. The appointment is subject to all relevant checks such as references, medical clearance and a satisfactory enhanced DBS disclosure.

We are an equal opportunity employer.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About TCES National Online School

• School type: Online provider, ages 5 to 25
• Education phase: All through school
• School size: No information available
• Age range: 5 to 25
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: TCES National Online School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/tces-national-online-school

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