School Counsellor

Ambition Community Trust, Dukinfield, SK16 4UJ

18 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  2 June 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  7 May 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: 35 hours excluding 30 minutes of lunch break. Monday to Friday.
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £31,586 - £35,235

What skills and experience we're looking for

Qualifications and Experience:

Essential:

• Qualified Counsellor or Psychotherapist: Recognised qualification in counselling or psychotherapy (Level 4 diploma or higher).
• BACP/UKCP Registration: Full membership or accreditation with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), or an equivalent body.

• Experience with Children: Proven experience working with children in a school or educational setting, ideally with children aged 9–12 (Key Stage 2/3).
• Knowledge of Child Development: Strong understanding of child development, mental health issues, and the emotional needs of children in a school environment.
• Safeguarding: Familiarity with safeguarding policies and practices in educational settings, with up-to-date safeguarding training.
• DBS Check: Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check required.

Desirable:

• Experience in Schools: Prior experience working in a primary or secondary school as a school counsellor or in a similar pastoral role.
• Specialised Training: A recognised qualification in Children’s Counselling. Additional training in specific therapeutic approaches such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Solution

Focused Therapy, Play Therapy, or Art Therapy.

• Experience with Special Educational Needs (SEN): Experience supporting children with SEN, including autism spectrum conditions, ADHD, and other neurodevelopmental disorders.
• Crisis Management: Experience in dealing with crisis situations, such as self-harm, suicide ideation, bullying, or bereavement.

What the school offers its staff

Join us on an exciting journey: School Counsellor – Ambition Community Trust

This is a unique and exciting opportunity to be part of something new and transformational.

Ambition Community Trustis a newly formed and forward-thinking multi-academy trust committed to building a truly therapeutic, relational approach across all our schools. As our School Counsellor, you will be at the heart of this vision — helping shape and deliver a trust-wide therapeutic offer and contributing to the creation of a nurturing, inclusive community for pupils, staff, and families alike.

You will work as part of a growing multi-disciplinary Therapeutic Team spanning 9 schools, supporting the emotional, psychological, and social well-being of pupils of both primary secondary school age. You’ll provide a safe, confidential space for young people to explore their experiences while also working closely with teaching staff, parents, and external agencies to champion their holistic development.

This role is more than counselling — it’s a chance to help build a new kind of school culture: one rooted in trauma-informed practice, emotional safety, and relational inclusion. You’ll contribute to the Trust’s professional development offer, helping to embed therapeutic thinking and practice across all levels of school life.

If you have experience working in education in a supportive role and are passionate about the well-being and potential of every young person, this could be the career-defining role you’ve been waiting for.

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

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Ambition Community Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Ambition Community Trust website
• Email address: sunil.b@myendeavour.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/ambition-community-trust-limited

Arranging a visit to Ambition Community Trust

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email sunil.b@myendeavour.uk.

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