Primary Psychotherapist

Nightingale Community Academy, London, SW17 7DF

20 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  3 March 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  11 February 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time: 3 days a week
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Scale NHS Band 6 £44,684 to £52,990 Actual £25,140.80 – £29,814.05

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are seeking a dedicated and enthusiastic Psychotherapist to join our multidisciplinary team. In this vital role, you will deliver high-quality therapeutic interventions to support learners’ emotional wellbeing, mental health, and personal development. You will work with individual pupils and groups, contributing to assessment, formulation, and care planning, while supporting staff to understand and respond to pupils’ emotional needs.

Working closely with the Principal, Senior Leadership Team, therapists, and teaching staff, you will play a key role in promoting a trauma-informed, psychologically safe learning environment that reflects the Academy’s aims and values.

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver individual therapeutic sessions for primary-aged pupils using integrative and play-based approaches.

• Assess pupils’ needs and develop, review, and adapt therapeutic plans and goals.

• Build safe, trusting relationships and support pupils with SEMH needs, including trauma and attachment difficulties.

• Work collaboratively with school staff, families (whereappropriate), and external agencies to support pupil outcomes.

• Maintain safeguarding, professional boundaries,accuraterecord keeping, and engage in supervision and CPD.

KeyRequirements:

• Qualified Integrative Counsellor/Psychotherapist with current BACP or UKCP registration and ongoing CPD.

• Proven experience delivering therapeutic interventions to primary-aged children, including those with SEMH needs.

• Strong understanding of trauma-informed and attachment-aware practice, including safeguarding responsibilities.

• Ability to build safe, trusting therapeutic relationships and deliver effective, play-based interventions.

• Strong communication,record-keepingand teamwork skills, with commitment to supervision and professional development.

What the school offers its staff

OHCAT is an exciting, forward-thinking organisation, and we offer many benefits to attract and keep our staff, contributing towardsmaintainingand improving wellbeing, and encouraging our required behaviours, achievements, values, and skills. Below is just aselectionof the benefits available to our employees:

Rewards & Benefits:

Pathways for progression within the trust, ensuring you can grow and thrive in a supportive and inclusive environment.

• Pension Scheme - you will be enrolled in either the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) or the Teachers' Pension Scheme (TPS), both offering life cover and financial protection for your family.

• Salary Sacrifice Schemes (Cycle SchemeandHome Electronics Scheme)

• Employee Wellbeing - We support employee wellbeing with access to counselling, mental health support, generous leave, flexible working, and enhanced parental leave including Employee Assistance Programme,MyGymDiscounts, Corporate Eyecare Scheme

• Employee Discounts (Blue Light Card, Costco Membership, Discounts for Teachers, and more)

• Other (Season Ticket Loan and Employee Referral Scheme)

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

Nightingale Community Academy and Orchard Hill College and Academy Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Appointments made will be subject to an Enhanced Disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Primary Psychotherapist JD & PS.pdf - 315 KB (opens in new tab)

About Nightingale Community Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 5 to 19
• School size: 137 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 5 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Nightingale Community Academy website
• Email address: CBoateng@nightingaleca.org
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/nightingale-community-academy

Nightingale Community Academy is a school for boys aged between 5 and 19 who have an Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP) or Statement of SEN for social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) needs.

Some learners also have Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), or other learning difficulties. At Nightingale Community Academy we are committed to raising the expectations of our learner group, removing barriers to learning and delivering attainment at the highest level.

“Since the start of the school in September 2016, the principal and his leadership team have shown a tireless determination to improve the education it offers. Their ‘no excuses’ approach means that nothing other than the highest quality of education is good enough”. (Ofsted February 2019) – (The full Ofsted Report, is now available on our website).

Nightingale Community Academy is committed to a multi-disciplinary approach to meeting learners’ needs, and promotes high quality professional development for all staff.

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