School Counsellor
John Mason School, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 1JBThis job expired on 18 April 2023
Start date details
ASAP following safer recruitment checks
Closing date
18 April 2023 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
21 March 2023
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 15 hours per week, term time only plus five INSET days (39 weeks)
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Grade 9, Point 23-26 (£30,151-£32,909FTE)
What skills and experience we're looking for
The successful applicant will:
Work effectively and flexibly within the school team
Provide one to one counselling sessions and workshops with students
Be part of a team that supports the physical, mental health and emotional wellbeing of students at John Mason School
Work with a diverse range of issues including transition, sexuality, eating disorders and self-harm, depression, anger management, anxiety and fears
Identify student’s mental health needs and consider appropriate ways of meeting these in partnership with other professionals
Contribute to the safeguarding and promotion of the welfare and personal care of children and young people.
What the school offers its staff
John Mason School is a friendly, dynamic school with a supportive and warm ethos.
Further details about the role
We are seeking to appoint a skilled, experienced, empathic and well-qualified School Counsellor to work as part of our pastoral team. You will provide excellent, high-quality confidential counselling support, engaging students by using a variety of proven counselling and therapeutic techniques tailored to their unique and individual needs. Applications are invited from suitably qualified and accredited counsellors with experience in complex counselling of children and young people.
Commitment to safeguarding
Abingdon Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding children and young people. All post holders in regulated activity are subject to appropriate vetting procedures and a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Enhanced check. The Trust is fully committed to the principles of equal opportunity, di-versity and inclusion and welcomes applications from less well-represented groups in the school and Trust. Posts in regulated activity are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974 and all shortlisted candidates will be required to disclose information about their previous criminal convic-tions. All staff are expected to promote fundamental British values.
Additional documents
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About John Mason School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1043 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- John Mason School website
- Email address
- recruitment@abingdonlearningtrust.org
John Mason School is part of the Abingdon Learning Trust and is fully committed to the safeguarding and wellbeing of all its students and staff.
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