Regional School Counsellor

Springwell Leeds Academy, Leeds, LS10 3JA

10 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  1st February 2026

• Closing date

  18 December 2025 at 8am

• Date listed

  18 November 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £23,286.00 - £28,347.00 Annually (Actual)

Regional School Counsellor job summary

Regional Specialist Occupational Therapist
Covering a number of schools across West & North Yorkshire
Permanent / Term Time/ Full Time
£33,206 - £40,102 actual annual salary

Are you a skilled and passionate Occupational Therapist ready to make a real difference in the lives of children and young people? Wellspring Trust are looking for a Specialist OT to join us, providing support across 6 specialist schools in West and North Yorkshire.

As a Specialist OT, you’ll work autonomously while being part of a multi-disciplinary team of professionals, including Speech & Language Therapists, Psychologists, and Positive Behaviour Support Practitioners. You’ll provide direct therapy, advice, training, and support to students, staff, and families, ensuring interventions are evidence-based and impactful.

We value your professional development—you’ll have opportunities to pursue areas of clinical interest, attend training, and contribute to service innovation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage your own caseload of students across schools, working closely with teachers, teams, and families.

• Conduct holistic assessments using clinical expertise and observation.

• Lead your professional growth, including appraisals, goal setting, and training opportunities.

• Supervise and mentor junior colleagues, promoting a positive and inclusive school culture.

• Monitor and manage risk while supporting colleagues to build awareness.

• Contribute to service development and innovation in clinical practice.

• Engage in specialist interest areas and professional networks to enhance practice.

Why join us?

• Generous annual leave entitlement

• Membership of a generous pension scheme

• Offering the flexibility and work life balance

• Continued CPD training and professional development

• Upskilling opportunities - invest in us and we will in you. If you are passionate about a career in education we have a plethora of training opportunities.

• Guided pathways for your career - individualised to suit you

• Wellbeing champions on site at all schools

• Regular wellbeing activities encouraging staff interaction

• Independent SAS school advisory service accessible for all staff

About the trust

Wellspring Academy Trust was established in 2013. Since then, we have grown into a vibrant community of 33 schools. Our schools are unique and united in aim - to make a difference.

We are a mixed community of mainstream Secondary and Primary, Special, and Alternative Provision schools. We operate in eight local authority areas, spanning South, West and North Yorkshire, Humberside and Lincolnshire. Our work has developed beyond our classrooms to offer wider services to benefit other schools and communities.

Salary: Commensurate with qualifications and experience, aligned with NHS Agenda for Change Band 6 £33,206 - £40,102 actual annual salary.
Hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week, Term time only (39 weeks).

Location: Employed by Springwell Leeds Academy, working across a designated group of special schools and alternative provision settings within NWYSP, with an expectation of travel

NEXT STEPS

For more information on this Regional Specialist Occupational Therapist role, please refer to the job description attached.

If you are interested in this excellent opportunity simply click APPLY NOW alternatively if you have additional questions then please reach out to Lauren Harper: l.harper@springwellacademyleeds.org

We are committed to equal opportunities and to promoting diversity. We want our people to reflect the diversity of our communities, and we welcome applications from people from all backgrounds, especially from under-represented groups, including those from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.

Safeguarding Statement:

Wellspring Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils. All posts are offered subject to enhanced DBS checks. References will be requested and an online search carried out for shortlisted candidates, prior to attendance at interview.

Further pre-employment checks, including prohibition from teaching, childcare disqualification and section 128 checks, if deemed relevant for the role, will be completed for the successful candidate upon acceptance of the post.

If you are currently living overseas or have lived / worked overseas in the last five years please be aware that you will be required to provide an overseas criminal records check from the country/ countries you have resided in, if you are the preferred candidate for the post.

As you will be working with children, this post requires you to undertake regulated activity. It is an offence to seek to work in regulated activity with a group with which you are barred.

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

Springwell Leeds is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

All candidates successfully selected for interview are required to complete a self-disclosure form.

The amendments to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 provides that when applying for certain jobs, certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’. This means that they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.

Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.

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 Springwell Leeds Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 5 to 16
• School size: 345 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 5 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Springwell Leeds Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/springwell-leeds-academy

Springwell Leeds Academy is a special school for children with Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) needs.

We are located on three sites accross the city of Leeds in Middleton, Seacroft and Tinshill - check job details for where each role is based.

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