37 days remaining to apply

  • Job start date

    4 November 2024

  • Closing date

    27 August 2024 at 9am

  • Date listed

    19 July 2024

Job details

Job role

  • Pastoral, health and welfare

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Part time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£7,079.50 - £7,800 pro rata (£39,951 - £44,019 FTE )

School Counsellor 0.2. (1 day a Week) Term Time Only job summary

The BRIT School is looking for a dynamic, innovative and reflective counsellor/psychotherapist to provide excellent counselling to the school.


This 1 day a week role allows for the right person to positively contribute to the therapeutic work that takes place in support of the mental and emotional wellbeing of the students aged 14-18. Experience of engaging and working with adolescents is therefore essential. 


This exciting opportunity requires someone who is highly motivated and has the capacity to be playful, warm and empathic.


Supporting the day to day running of the Counselling Service is also a part of the role, which would need for the successful candidate to be familiar with using computerised systems and applications.


We are particularly interested in hearing from those within the Global Majority and LGBTQ+ communities.


The BRIT School is a unique institution offering specialist education in the arts and related technologies, alongside the full range of National Curriculum subjects. It is sponsored by the British Record Industry Trust and has a unique relationship with the performing arts industries. 


The BRIT School runs a five term academic year with some school holidays falling at different times to the standard three term school breaks. Please see our website for further details of our term dates.



The BRIT School is committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.



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.

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About BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology

School type
Independent school, ages 14 to 19
School size
1436 pupils enrolled
Age range
14 to 19

The BRIT School is the leading Performing and Creative Arts school in the UK and completely FREE to attend. It provides a unique education for over 1,400 pupils aged between 14 and 19 in the fields of music, film, digital design, community arts, visual arts and design, production and performing arts as well as a full academic programme of GCSEs and A Levels.

The BRIT School has produced many successful, singers, musicians, dancers, technicians, film-makers, performers, designers, games-makers, set-makers, community arts practitioners, DJs, actors, stuntmen, producers, authors and a whole cast more.

Former Students have so far won 12 BRIT Awards, 19 Grammys, 2 BAFTAS and 2 Oscars, a Laurence Olivier Award, a UK Theatre Award and 2 London Evening Standard Awards.

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