School Counsellor
The Billericay School, Billericay, Essex, CM12 9LH17 days remaining to apply
Start date details
Monday 6 January 2024
Closing date
9 December 2024 at 9am
Date listed
20 November 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
- £19,494.39 - £20,960.50 Annually (FTE) Scale 8 Point 25 – 28
School Counsellor job summary
1. Students
To offer a confidential counselling service for students who are referred via Head of Year, responding appropriately to their issues
To promote a caring and supportive environment where concerns can be explored.
To develop and use a range of solution focused interventions to support the students.
To work closely with the Pastoral Teams to ensure the wellbeing of students, sharing information as appropriate as well as guidance and support where necessary.
To ensure good communication with the DSL and DDSL in relation to students at risk
2. Administration
To keep clear and concise records of all sessions, which will remain confidential unless there is a safeguarding concern.
To manage initial assessment and consent paperwork.
To provide a termly evaluation report for Governors via DH Pastoral around the work being done with students and the impact
3. General
To work within the codes of practice and ethics recommended by the BACP, UKCP or equivalent professional organisation.
To be aware of, and comply with, policies and procedures relating to safeguarding and child protection, health and safety, confidentiality and data protection reporting all concerns to the appropriate person
To attend and participate in relevant meetings as required
To participate in training and performance development as required
To provide information on the counselling service and the role of the counsellor to parents and carers
Monitor the case load and progress of our Volunteer Trainee Counsellors.
The duties above are neither exclusive nor exhaustive and the postholder may be required by the Headteacher to carry out appropriate duties within the context of the job, skills and grade.
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
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About The Billericay School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1697 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- The Billericay School website (opens in new tab)
The Billericay School is one of the largest schools in Essex with a roll of almost 1700 students, including 300 in the Sixth Form. The school site enjoys an enviable location; close to the town centre, yet situated in spacious grounds, the school is positioned on an elevated site with distant and sweeping views down towards the River Thames and beyond. In times past, a windmill stood nearby, a piece of local history still commemorated in the school badge.
Teaching takes place in five principal blocks.
The original structure, that dates from the school's foundation some sixty years ago includes an open air, furnished and planted quadrangle for lower school students to use during the summer months.
Other buildings include a modern Technology and Business Studies block, an Art, Food Technology and Textiles building and a Sixth Form Centre that provides a modern, attractive environment for our older students.
Other resources include a large assembly hall with television link, a drama studio, a music suite with recording studio, a media area with video editing suite and a large library/ resource based learning centre, which includes extensive ICT and study facilities as well as housing over 30,000 books.
The school's sporting facilities are exceptional, including a swimming pool, sports hall, gymnasium and fitness suite.
Our grounds include tennis and netball courts and football, rugby and cricket pitches. The school has recently achieved the national Sportsmark Award for its sporting excellence and work with the community.
The school also has a medical room, with the services of qualified staff throughout the school day.
It is also worthy of note that many of our staff have chosen to send their own children to the school. What greater sign of confidence could there be!
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