22 days remaining to apply

  • Job start date

    1 September 2025

  • Closing date

    8 June 2025 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    16 May 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

£6,668 - £7,114

Student Counsellor job summary

Job Title: Student Counsellor

Actual Annual Salary: £6,668 - £7,114 (Based on hours and working weeks)

Full Time Equivalent Salary: £38,419 - £40,989 (CLF Grade F). Based on 37 hours per week, all year round.

Contract Type: Fixed-Term

Contract Length: Fixed until 31/08/2026

Hours: Part-time 1 day (7.5 hours) per week

Additional role info: Working day to be mutually agreed

Start Date: September 2025

Your opportunity to help and support young people in Education.

Digitech Studio School are looking for someone to provide a professional and confidential, solutions focussed counselling service to students experiencing a wide range of psychological and emotional issues to:

  • Promote emotional health and well‐being to enable young people to access academy life.
  • Develop student resilience to support them to cope with any challenges they face.
  • Assist colleagues to develop skills and strategies to support students.

About you:

You will

  • Possesses a professional counselling qualification accredited by the British association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) or alternative professional organisation.
  • Be a registered member of a professional membership body and have at least 200 hours of counselling hours.
  • An understanding of effective ways to safeguard and support vulnerable students.
  • Previous experience of working with a caseload of clients and ability to select appropriate approaches and strategies based on an assessment of their specific needs.

Applicants are advised to refer to the full requirements of the role in the attached job description and person specification, prior to submitting an application.

DIGITECH STUDIO SCHOOL 

Digitech delivers a specialised curriculum for 14-19 year olds, where we offer progression into the creative digital and high-tech sectors.  We are located in Warmley, on the outskirts of Bristol and South Gloucestershire. Studio schools are small by design, and we only take 90 students into each year group. This allows us to meet the needs of individual students in a personalised way.   

Digitech Studio School has been on an enormous improvement journey over the last few years which has seen outcomes consistently improve year on year with all indicators. The academy is diverse in its intake and proud that we serve all of the families in our community. There is real pride from colleagues that they work at Digitech Studio School and contribute to a cause greater than themselves.   

Why work at CLF?

We are a diverse and inclusive community of 35 academies across five cluster regions in the South West that is committed to excellence and making a positive impact. Our people bring unique perspectives, but we’re all driven by a shared moral purpose and a passion for making a positive impact, whether in a teaching, leadership or support role. We’re proud to foster a culture where everyone can thrive, feel valued, and make a meaningful difference to the lives of others.

We are an equal opportunity employer and proud to serve a diverse student population and our communities. We strongly believe that representation matters and so encourage applications from underrepresented and global majority groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.

We aim to remove any barriers to employment, ensuring everyone can compete on equal terms. Job share, part-time and flexible working opportunities will be considered.

What we can offer you:

  • Access to a generous pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
  • Generous annual leave.
  • A comprehensive induction and ongoing commitment to wellbeing and career progression, through a range of training, apprenticeships and in-role/wider-trust development opportunities.
  • Well-being support through an Employee Assistance Programme.
  • Health benefits, including wellness sessions, gym discounts, and flu jabs.
  • A range of generous family leave options, including above industry average occupational maternity pay.
  • Additional benefits like cycle to work scheme, on-site parking plus many more!

Recruitment timeline:

• Closing Date: 8 June 2025 @11.59pm

• 12 June 2025

We welcome visits from potential candidates. If you would like to arrange a school visit prior to the closing date, please contact the academy/site directly to arrange a suitable appointment.

As part of our commitment to Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), we do not accept CVs – a full education and employment history must be provided through our application form.

Skilled Worker visas cannot be sponsored through this role, as it does not meet the requirements set out by government.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early, should we receive a high level of interest in the role. Therefore, candidates are advised to apply at their earliest convenience to avoid missing out. 

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.

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About Digitech Studio School

School type
Free School, ages 14 to 19
Education phase
Secondary
School size
590 pupils enrolled
Age range
14 to 19
Ofsted report
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Digitech is a 14-19 Studio School that is a fully integrated part of the Cabot Learning Federation. We are a specialist studio school providing a bespoke curriculum for the coders, designers, creatives, film makers and entrepreneurs of the future.

The school is going from strength to strength with improving outcomes each year. Student and parent voice is strong.

There are 220 students who study at Digitech and both staff and students enjoy this smaller setting and the benefits that this brings.

Digitech staff are a diverse group of professionals with representation from different ages, genders, cultural backgrounds and the BAME and LGBTQ+ communities. We actively welcome applications from BAME and LGBTQ professionals.

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