Counselling Service Lead
Dunraven School
Lambeth
- Expired
- Salary:
- £11,222.50 actual
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- ASAP
- Apply by:
- 17 February 2023
Job overview
We require a part-time Counselling Service Lead to join us as soon as possible.
In this key role, you will provide a counselling and psychotherapy service within the school in line with BACP/UKCP and statutory school guidance.
Experience
- Qualified counsellor or psychotherapist, accredited by or registered with BACP or UKCP, or other equivalent body
- Qualified clinical supervisor with proven ability to and experience of working across modalities and with groups
- Proven relevant experience post qualification
- Experience of coordinating and supporting the development of trainee and newly qualified volunteer counsellors, in a way that fosters transparency, reflectivity and open discussion on areas of different thought within the supervisory team
- Ability to take responsibility for volunteers and manage difficulties that arise within the counselling team
- Experience of working with children and young people in a counselling and psychotherapy capacity
- Demonstrate an understanding of the issues children and young people face within society
- Experience of working with Neurodiverse counselling clients and counsellors in training
- Comprehensive experience of assessment and counselling children and young people
- Ability to recognise and respond to the diversity of the student population and to reflect on this with children and young people and with volunteer counsellors
- Ability to work independently and within a team
- Ability to network with external agencies and universities
- Ability to organise competing priorities, keeping children and young people and waiting lists at the centre of managing workload
- Excellent knowledge of statutory safeguarding and risk guidelines and procedures
- Ability to hold safeguarding and risk issues within the counselling team, manage volunteer counsellor anxieties whilst referring to relevant safeguarding leads.
- A commitment to the School’s mission, ethos and equal opportunities policy
About us
At Dunraven School, our motto is “education for all”. Serving a diverse inner-city community, we provide an exceptional start in life from ages 4 to 18 – delivering learning that enriches, nurtures and releases potential. At the heart of the multi-academy Dunraven Educational Trust, we have blazed a trail that has seen us become Ofsted Outstanding in all areas, a National Teaching School and an Academy Sponsor.
Contract: Part-time, 7 hours per week and term time only
Benefits
In return, we offer enviable employment conditions, including extensive in-house CPD provision and affiliations with national courses and providers (SSAT, Teaching Leaders, Future Leaders, NPQs). If you have the skills to succeed, your career with us could take you anywhere within the Trust, so the sky is truly the limit.
To apply, please go to www.dunraven.org.uk > about us > vacancies
Closing date: Noon on 17 February 2023
Dunraven Educational Trust schools are committed to the safety and protection of their students. An enhanced DBS certificate and a barred list checks are conditions of employment for this post.
About Dunraven School
Dunraven School is a mixed, non-selective, non-denominational all-through school in the London borough of Lambeth serving students from the age of 4-18. The London based school, situated in Streatham has approximately 1,300 students on roll. It is the hub school for the South Lambeth Schools’ Partnership (SLSP), which is made up of 10 other schools in the local area.
Dunraven School converted to academy status in 2011. It’s sixth form centre is part of a collaboration of four other schools in South West London. In 2014, the school was identified by Ofsted as outstanding. It is divided into two sites, with the primary school known as North Site and the secondary school known as South Site.
Principals
Guy Maidment (Secondary Phase)
Michaela Christian (Primary Phase)
Values and vision
Dunraven School follows six core values: optimism, resilience, gratitude, courtesy, self-discipline and working hard. The school’s focus is to help students develop the required skills and attitudes to succeed in all that they do, both academically and personally. It’s hope is for students to leave as well-rounded, happy individuals who achieve to the best of their ability and fulfil their dreams and ambitions. Dunraven School holds specialism in Maths and Computing, along with a Healthy Schools award, Sports England award and has been identified as a National Support School.
Ofsted
“The behaviour of pupils is outstanding, and this is underpinned by their excellent attitudes to being the very best that they can be and reaching their goals in life. The whole school ethos of raising self-belief and self-esteem has contributed to their excellent behaviour in lessons and around the school”.
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