Self-Employed School Counsellor (1 day a week)
Bullers Wood School for Boys, Bromley, BR1 2NW12 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2026
Closing date
17 June 2026 at 9am
Date listed
5 June 2026
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 1 day per week - 8.30am - 14:30pm
Contract type
- Casual
Hourly rate
- Competitive
What skills and experience we're looking for
School Counsellor – Bullers Wood School for Boys
- Self‑Employed School Counsellor required for 1 day per week
- Term time only, up to 36 weeks per academic year
- Start date: September 2026
- The Role
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You will work closely with the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL), Assistant Headteacher: Personal Development and Wellbeing, Heads of Year, SENDCo and other pastoral staff to ensure that pupils receive timely, appropriate and effective support.
We are flexible, based on candidate availability, on the day which can be offered, across Monday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday.
The working day is 08:30am – 14:30pm, including a 35‑minute lunch break. Whilst the post is for one day per week, there is flexibility to adjust the working day on occasion to accommodate school holidays, INSET days or operational needs, agreed in advance with the DSL.
You will coordinate referrals, caseloads and waiting lists with the school’s existing counsellor to ensure continuity of care across the week.
The role is self‑employed, with the counsellor invoicing the school for services delivered each month.
The School Counsellor will provide confidential one‑to‑one therapeutic support to boys aged 11–16, offering up to five scheduled sessions per day and a drop‑in service during morning break.
What the school offers its staff
Employee Assistance Programme for all staff
CPD
Option to join LGPS
Further information about the job
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 job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Bullers Wood School for Boys
- School type
- Free Schools, None, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 894 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Bullers Wood School for Boys website
- Email address
- crobertson@iniciotrust.org
Thank you for expressing an interest in our school. As the founding Headteacher, I am delighted to welcome you to Bullers Wood School for Boys, a boys’ comprehensive school in Bromley.
We opened in September 2018 and are now in our fifth year of operation. We have 900 boys on roll from Years 7 to 11. Our ambition is for our boys to progress on to Bullers Wood Sixth Form, located on our partner school site - Bullers Wood School for Girls.
Our aim is to provide an outstanding education for boys within a culture of high aspiration, courtesy and respect. It is our core belief that all of our boys can enjoy and achieve success whatever their starting points.
In February, the School underwent its first ever OFSTED Inspection where Inspectors rated the school as ‘Good’ in all categories. The successful candidate will be joining an organisation where “Leaders have created a school in which their vision of ‘healthy, happy, resilient and successful’ pupils guides every aspect of school life.” It is a place where “pupils feel happy and safe” and where relationships are “welcoming and peaceful.”
Our first cohort of Year 11 boys will be sitting their GCSE examinations this summer. Therefore, with our first ever set of GCSE results and an Ofsted Inspection under our belts, we will be an established ‘grown-up’ school.
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