School Based Therapist
Rock Ferry Primary School, Birkenhead, Merseyside, CH42 2BLThis job expired on 10 July 2025 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
10 July 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
3 July 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £31,067.00 - £34,313.00 Annually (FTE) Actual Salary £8756 pro rata
School Based Therapist job summary
Term time only, 12 hours per week.
Your role would involve:
To provide a therapy service for children in school, ensuring that the children and young people are provided with therapeutic and emotional support
Provide a range of professional development programmes on mental health and wellbeing for school leaders, teachers and other professionals who work with children and young people, to help to build ‘mentally healthy’ schools and communities where all children can thrive and flourish
Ensure high quality clinical practice and delivery of a full and effective service
Plan and deliver group work in consultation with the school and the headteacher
Build relationships with families and other systematic support programmes.
At Rock Ferry Primary School, we are committed to being an inclusive primary school with a determination to provide an excellent education for all our children which allows them to “be the best they can be” in every area of their life.
Staff, pupils, parents and visitors often comment about the warmth of the relationships they see and feel as they walk around the school and this is testament to the strong emphasis we place on emotional and mental health, positive recognition, and providing our children with a happy, safe learning environment in which they can flourish: emotionally, socially and academically.
We have some very vulnerable children and families in school so you must be prepared to provide pastoral care, guidance and support to raise self esteem and develop skills of resilience, independence and perseverance.
Rock Ferry Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share these values. Safer recruitment practice and pre-employment background checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. This includes a request for references, prior to interview. Shortlisted candidates are expected to provide evidence of qualifications at interview and a satisfactory, enhanced DBS check will be undertaken before final confirmation to the successful candidate.
Rock Ferry Primary School is a trauma informed school and holds the Gold level for Attachment and Trauma Sensitive Schools Award (ATTSA). The successful candidate must be willing to learn, model and embrace our values and ethos with pupils and parents.
All applicants will be considered on the basis of suitability for the post regardless of sex, race or disability.
Application Process: Interested candidates are invited to submit an application through MyNewTerm website our online portal, outlining your suitability for the role and how you would contribute to the vision and values of Rock Ferry Primary School.
Further details of deadlines and other information can be found on the School and Cheshire Academies Trust websites. Application forms for the above post are available online at www.wirral.gov.uk and also via our school website: https://www.rockferry.wirral.sch.uk/page/vacancies/154869
Further information about the job
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.
About Rock Ferry Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 320 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Rock Ferry Primary School website
School location
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