School Counsellor/Therapist

Oxford Spires Academy, Oxford, OX4 2AU

9 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  2 February 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  24 January 2026

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: £50,269.00 - £53,460.00 Annually (FTE) Term Time Only

School Counsellor/Therapist job summary

Oxford Spires Academy is looking to appoint a School Therapist with Autism Specialism to support the school’s Counselling and Therapy Team in delivering high-quality psychological and wellbeing support to students. The post holder will play a key role in supporting students with neurodiverse needs, particularly those with Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), ensuring therapeutic support is inclusive, responsive, and developmentally appropriate.

The role has a dual focus: supporting the Therapy Team through triaging counselling referrals, contributing to duty counselling provision, and assisting with associated administrative tasks; and providing targeted one-to-one therapeutic support to students with neurodiverse needs who are accessing counselling. The post holder will work collaboratively with therapists, pastoral staff, families, and external agencies to promote positive mental health, emotional wellbeing, and safeguarding outcomes for children and young people.

Hours: 08:30am to 12pm, Monday to Friday - term time only.

We are a highly sought after and well-established comprehensive in East Oxford with over 1350 students including 6th form. A strength of Oxford Spires is the warm, welcoming culture for students and staff alike and a huge sense of community.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and require all staff and volunteers to share and demonstrate this commitment. The successful candidate will have to meet the requirements of the person specification and will be subject to the relevant pre-employment checks which will, where applicable, include a health check, an enhanced DBS check, the Children’s Barred List check and satisfactory references.

It is an offence for an individual who has been disqualified from working with children to knowingly apply for, offer to do, accept, or do any work in a ‘regulated activity’. The position advertised is a ‘regulated activity’. Anthem will undertake a basic online check for all shortlisted candidates.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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.

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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 will not be accepted for this application.

About Oxford Spires Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1306 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Oxford Spires Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/oxford-spires-academy

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