School Counsellor

Springwell Leeds Academy, Leeds, LS10 3JA

30 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  1st February 2026

• Closing date

  18 December 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  18 November 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £23,286.00 - £28,347.00 Annually (Actual)

School Counsellor job summary

We are seeking an exceptional School Counsellor to provide a high-quality, confidential, and accessible counselling service to students across our diverse group of specialist academies.

This is a unique and rewarding role where you will work directly with students experiencing a wide range of social, emotional, mental health (SEMH), and learning challenges. You will support pupils with SEMH needs, those with Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties (PMLD), and those attending our Pupil Referral Unit (PRU).

Your work will be pivotal in promoting student well-being, resilience, and personal growth, directly supporting their engagement in education and overall development. Initially focused at Springwell Leeds Academy, this role has exciting scope to help develop therapeutic support across other NWYSP and Wellspring Trust schools.

About Us

The NWYSP is a collaborative group of six (soon to be seven) specialist academies within the Wellspring Academy Trust. We operate as a single, cohesive system comprising schools for SEMH, PMLD, generic special educational needs, and a PRU. This unique partnership allows us to harness shared resources and expertise, fostering innovation and resilience.

When you join us, you become part of a forward-thinking team committed to sharing best practices and providing first-class professional development, ensuring every member of our community can thrive.

Safeguarding Statement:

Wellspring Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils. All posts are offered subject to enhanced DBS checks. References will be requested and an online search carried out for shortlisted candidates, prior to attendance at interview.

Further pre-employment checks, including prohibition from teaching, childcare disqualification and section 128 checks, if deemed relevant for the role, will be completed for the successful candidate upon acceptance of the post.

We are committed to equal opportunities and to promoting diversity. We want our people to reflect the diversity of our communities, and we welcome applications from people from all backgrounds, especially from under-represented groups, including those from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.

If you are currently living overseas or have lived / worked overseas in the last five years please be aware that you will be required to provide an overseas criminal records check from the country/ countries you have resided in, if you are the preferred candidate for the post.

As you will be working with children, this post requires you to undertake regulated activity. It is an offence to seek to work in regulated activity with a group with which you are barred.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Springwell Leeds is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

All candidates successfully selected for interview are required to complete a self-disclosure form.

The amendments to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 provides that when applying for certain jobs, certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’. This means that they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.

Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Springwell Leeds Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 5 to 16
• School size: 345 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 5 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Springwell Leeds Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/springwell-leeds-academy

Springwell Leeds Academy is a special school for children with Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) needs.

We are located on three sites accross the city of Leeds in Middleton, Seacroft and Tinshill - check job details for where each role is based.

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