School Counsellor

Looking for a new challenge?

We are seeking to appoint a skilled and committed School Counsellor to join our supportive, enthusiastic and collaborative Inclusion Team, at our Sikh faith school based in Stoke Poges.

The key purpose of this role is to provide high quality counselling to young people experiencing a wide variety of emotional problems, including self-esteem and anger management. You will be working closely with a member of the Senior Leadership Team to ensure the highest standards of wellbeing for all students supporting the Schools’ core purpose of developing safe, secure and healthy students who achieve well and develop into mature and confident adults.

Pioneer Secondary Academy is a smaller than average secondary school with a calm atmosphere and and high ambitions for its students who are:

“confident, articulate young people who think carefully about their role in the world and display positive behaviour and attitudes.”

This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future success of Pioneer Secondary Academy (PSA) and its children as part of a school being launched under new leadership and governance and planning for a dynamic successful future. We are now seeking to appoint an individual who shares our passion for learning and our determination to change lives through the education we provide.

Key Responsibilities

• To provide an independent and confidential counselling service to pupils at Pioneer Secondary Academy through individual sessions, responding to their personal, social, emotional or educational concerns.
• To promote a caring and supportive environment where such concerns may be explored.
• To be responsible for maintaining appropriate and confidential records.
• To play an active role in safeguarding the pupils at Pioneer Secondary Academy by adhering to the relevant School policies including the School’s safeguarding policy.
• To perform duties within the codes of practice and ethics recommended by the BACP, UKCP or equivalent organisation.
• To provide regular audit information/reports such as trends, patterns of problems, numbers, age range and types of problems to SLT.
• To facilitate workshops with staff/parent/family of pupils and provide information when required about the counselling service, the role of the School Counsellor and the boundaries of confidentiality to pupils, staff and parents.
• To be responsible for their own professional development maintenance and updating knowledge and awareness through continuing professional development (CPD).
• To maintain a high level of knowledge and awareness of changes and developments in the fields of counselling and education and their impact on the delivery of counselling.
• To ensure that as a counsellor, they are properly and regularly supervised.
• To undertake any other reasonable duties as required by the Headteacher.
• To accept referrals from teachers, support staff and parents.
• Operate a system whereby students can self-refer and be able to be seen privately as soon as possible after the request.
• To be available to offer pupils emergency support if they come to school in a distressed state.
• Undertake any other duties as requested, commensurate with the grading and responsibilities of the post.
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At PSA, we are passionate about our children, teaching and learning and developing our staff. We are a growing school with an expanding team and we are looking to appoint an experienced Librarian to join us to support our team.

What can we offer you?  

• Amazing children who are respectful, engage with their learning and appreciate the work that we do with them         
• An exciting place to work where you will feel valued for all your hard work         
• A wonderfully welcoming and supportive team         
• Relevant CPD to further develop your knowledge and skills and support where needed to achieve your best         
• A forward thinking school where new ideas are welcomed and encouraged

Applications will be shortlisted and interviewed at the earliest opportunity. Early applications for this post are recommended.

Pioneer Secondary Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS record check.

We reserve the right to bring forward the closing date if we consider that we have received an appropriate number of suitable applications for the post.