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School Counsellor

Rainhill High School, Prescot, Merseyside, L35 6NY

This job expired on 24 January 2020 – see similar jobs

• Job start date

  3 February 2020

• Closing date

  24 January 2020 at 9am

• Date listed

  6 January 2020

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Full-time equivalent salary: £20,475 to £29,250 per year (full-time equivalent)
• Additional allowances:

  Continuing Professional Development ; • Take responsibility for personal professional development, keeping up-to-date with research and developments which may lead to improvements in the counselling service provided. ; • To arrange and deliver relevant training for staff as and when needs are identified.

School Counsellor job summary

Are you passionate about supporting young people? Do you want to join a high performing school? Rainhill High School, including Rainhill Sixth is the place for you!

Our School’s mission is the ‘Pursuit of Excellence’ in everything that we do.

We are looking for a part time self-employed School Counsellor to join our hard working and successful school as a valued business partner. The role is primarily to provide one to one counselling to pupils, to maintain appropriate records and liaise regularly with the Headteacher, SLT, SENCO and other professionals as necessary.

This is a service level agreement for above outlined services to be provided to Rainhill High School on a contractor basis; it is not a contract of employment and as such, Stephenson Multi Academy Trust take no responsibility for the tax or insurance arrangements of the successful contractor.

Purpose
To provide a high-quality counselling service to students experiencing a wide range of emotional problems.
To provide support, guidance and advice to parents, carers and the school where needed.
To observe confidentiality and to support the school’s pursuit of excellence for all students.
Contribute to the safeguarding and promotion of the welfare and personal care of children and young people

Specific Responsibilities
• To provide an independent and confidential counselling service to pupils at Rainhill High School through individual sessions, responding to their personal, social, emotional or educational concerns.
• To promote a caring and supportive environment where such concerns may be explored.
• To be responsible for maintaining appropriate and confidential records.
• To play an active role in safeguarding the pupils at Rainhill High School by adhering to the relevant school policies including the school’s safeguarding policy.
• To perform duties within the codes of practice and ethics recommended by the BACP, UKCP or equivalent organisation.
• To provide regular audit information/reports such as trends, patterns of problems, numbers, age range and types of problems to SLT.
• To facilitate workshops with staff/parent/family of pupils and provide information when required about the counselling service, the role of the School Counsellor and the boundaries of confidentially to pupils, staff and parents.
• To be responsible for their own professional development maintenance and updating knowledge and awareness through continuing professional development (CPD).
• To maintain a high level of knowledge and awareness of changes and developments in the fields of counselling and education and their impact on the delivery counselling.
• To ensure that as a counsellor, they are properly and regularly supervised.
• To undertake any other reasonable duties as required by the head teacher.

This is a service level agreement for above outlined services to be provided to Rainhill High School on a contractor basis; it is not a contract of employment and as such, Stephenson Multi Academy Trust take no responsibility for the tax or insurance arrangements of the successful contractor.

Commitment to safeguarding

Rainhill High School and Sixth Form is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people as well as promoting equality of opportunity and community cohesion; where the diversity of different backgrounds and circumstances is appreciated and positively valued and expects all staff, volunteers and other workers to share in this commitment.

This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosing & Barring Certificate and online searches as part of our Safer Recruitment & Selection Procedures.

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About Rainhill High School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1830 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Rainhill High School website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: jobs@rainhillhighschool.org.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/rainhill-high-school-prescot (opens in new tab)

11-18 Mixed Comprehensive 1847 on roll

Rainhill High School is a co-educational secondary school and sixth form centre located in Rainhill, Merseyside, England.

The school converted to an academy under Rainhill Learning Village in March 2017. More recently, the school has become part of the Stephenson Trust.

Our Partners

Founded in 2015 by former Liverpool and England striker, Robbie Fowler, The Fowler Academy’s results are impressive. Receiving glowing reports from OFSTED and Pearson qualifications, The Fowler Academy were awarded 'Most Inspirational Post 16 Provider in 2019's Educate Awards and were shortlisted in the 2021 TES Awards, as best national provider and have recently moved to their new home, the former first team training ground for Liverpool FC, Melwood.

Partnerships with the LFC Foundation and Rainhill, The Fowler Academy's blended offer of football and post 16 education is both exciting and innovative, ensuring excellent outcomes for students.

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