School Counsellor (two days per week, term time only)
Wycombe High School, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, HP11 1TB6 days remaining to apply
Start date details
Required from June 2025 (an earlier start date may be available)
Closing date
24 April 2025 at 9am
Date listed
27 March 2025
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
- £30,361.00 - £32,594.00 Annually (FTE) Bucks Pay Scale 4, point 21 – 25 (currently £30361 - £32594 pro-rata for 39 weeks per annum, 15 hours per week (actual salary £10486 - £11258 per annum)
School Counsellor (two days per week, term time only) job summary
We are seeking to appoint someone with recent experience of working as a counsellor for children/young people aged 11-18. Knowledge or experience of working in an educational environment would be desirable but is not essential.
The successful candidate will provide a caring and supportive environment, where concerns can be explored safely. This will involve working with a diverse range of issues including bereavement and loss, transition, anxiety and low-mood, eating disorders, self-harm, anger management, bullying and abuse.
The mental health and wellbeing team consist of a mental health lead, mental health officer and school counsellors. The school counsellors contribute to the whole school approach, delivering preventative work to all students, which includes drop-in sessions, triaging students for support, extra-curricular activities, upskilling staff with CPD opportunities and promoting staff wellbeing.
The successful candidate will work within, and adhere to, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) Ethical Framework, or equivalent organisation.
We are an ambitious and compassionate school, with staff who contribute eagerly to all aspects of school life. In a recent staff survey, 100% of staff stated they were proud to work at Wycombe High School. This is a great opportunity to work in an outstanding all girls’ grammar school, voted the Sunday Times Parent Power ‘Secondary School of the Year 2023’.
Key Dates
Deadline for applications: 9am on Thursday 24 April 2025 (we reserve the right to close this position early if we receive sufficient applications)
Interviews will take place: Thursday 1 May 2025
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 Wycombe High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1322 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Wycombe High School website
Wycombe High School is a girls’ selective state academy school with 1304 students on roll, of whom around 400 are in the Sixth Form. Each year 192 girls are admitted into Year 7. All students are assigned to a vertical tutor group consisting of about 21 students; usually three students from each year. group There are six houses with 10 tutor groups in each house. Our school is part of the Wycombe High School Academies Trust.
The school has educated girls of High Wycombe for over a hundred years and is very highly regarded in the local and wider community. There is a strong and shared sense of community and collective pride, built on core values. Parental support is strong. We have excellent links with other local schools, colleges and universities. We have a knowledgeable and supportive Governing Body fully involved with all aspects of school life, and an enthusiastic and active Parents and Friends Association.
Our staff are professional, forward-looking and committed to extending the horizons of our students, encouraging them to aim high, to take on leadership roles and to become independent learners. We have an ambitious development plan, with a focus on improving the quality of teaching and learning, both within and beyond the classroom.
We are a National Support School, a Teaching School and one of 35 Mathematics Hubs nationally. We are delighted to have been recently designated as a National Mathematics and Physics SCITT in 2017 and have strong community partnerships. We have invested substantially in IT systems and training. We also have an outstanding reputation for the performing and visual arts. Numerous educational visits take place each year and for every age group, at home and abroad.
Our school motto summarises our ethos and sense of community. All those who study, work at, or send their children to our school are part of this community and are role models for our ethos.
Fortiter, Fideliter, Feliciter
(Courageously, Faithfully, Joyfully)
Courageously:
Each student is encouraged to embrace our core values of honesty, respect and hard work. She is encouraged to speak out against injustice, supported to take risks, and is not afraid of failure. She learns new subjects and skills. She pushes herself to her personal limits and beyond. She is encouraged to listen to the opinions of others, as well as to voice her own. She accepts responsibility for herself and other students. She leads the school in partnership with staff and the governing body. She is independent and innovative in thought and action.
Faithfully:
Every student is expected to uphold our school rules and traditions. She acts with integrity and is truthful and honest in all she does. She keeps promises and is reliable. She works hard to achieve her full potential. Above all she is a good friend, a good neighbour and a good citizen. She contributes positively to school life and society.
Joyfully:
All our students contribute to making our school the happy and joyful place it is. Each student demonstrates mutual respect and empathy for all and is proud of her own achievements and those of others. She shows commitment to a fair and peaceful community and embraces diversity. Our students are happy and positive in approach, and support others to be the same.
As an immediate adopter of the Early Career Framework, any NQT applying will be guaranteed two years on a reduced timetable, a dedicated mentor and access to an exceptional career development programme.
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