School Counsellor / Cognitive Behavioural Therapist
Portsmouth High School
Portsmouth
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 24 February 2020
Job overview
Part time – 1 day per week
Term time only plus 5 days to be worked in the school closure period
Portsmouth High School is seeking to recruit a part-time (1 day a week), counsellor / cognitive behavioural therapist to undertake individual and group-based interventions for girls attending our junior and senior school. These pupils require support coping with adverse life experiences or are experiencing mental health problems.
This is an opportunity to work alongside our experienced School Clinical Psychologist and well-established pastoral support team, and contribute to the development of a tiered system of pastoral support within the school.
The successful candidate will be report in to the Senior School Deputy Head and will also work closely with the School Clinical Psychologist, School Welfare Officer, Head’s of Year and staff from the Junior School.
Selection Criteria, you must be able to demonstrate the following:
Essential
- Educated to a degree level or equivalent and a post-graduate level counselling qualification and current accreditation with the BACP, UKCP, BABCP or BCP;
- Extensive experience (a minimum of 2 years), of offering evidence-based individual counselling or therapy with children and young people with emotional and mental health difficulties in a variety of settings.
- Understanding of the emotional, social and developmental issues facing children and young people.
- Experience of working collaboratively with other agencies.
- Experience of delivering training/workshops.
- Evidence of practice development.
Desirable
- Experience of working in an education setting.
- Experience working with younger (junior school age) children.
Your application should clearly set out how you meet the Selection Criteria along with relevant clinical examples.
Candidates will be shortlisted based upon these criteria.
If you wish to make an informal enquiry about the post, please contact hr@por.gdst.net
The GDST offer a generous salary and benefits package and further information can be found on the GDST website www.gdst.net/careers/why-work-for-a-gdst-school
To apply please go to www.gdst.net and click on Careers
Closing date for applications: 24 February 2020.
Interviews: tbc.
Portsmouth High School is part of the GDST (Girls’ Day School Trust) - the leading network of independent girls’ schools in the UK. The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the DBS.
About Portsmouth High School
Portsmouth High School is an independent school for girls aged 3 to 18 situated in Southsea, Hampshire, just a 5 minute walk from the sea. The school part of the Girls’ Day School Trust, the leading provider of education for girls in the country which has been successfully educating girls since 1872. Portsmouth High School is ambitious for every pupil, preparing them for life beyond the school gates and an education at the school can be life changing.
The senior school opened its doors in 1882 and moved to its current location almost 130 years ago. Other sections have been founded over the years: the junior school opened in 1927, while the nursery was established in 2005.
Principal
Jane Prescott
Values and vision
Portsmouth High School nurtures students’ talents to help them grow into well-rounded individuals, socially and personally as well as academically. Relationships between students and staff are respectful and supportive, and bullying is extremely rare.
The school believes its status as an all-girls school is a valuable one, giving its students a confidence that helps redress the imbalance in female representation in leading positions in the outside world.
ISI report
“The school is highly successful in providing an excellent education and fully meets its aims to encourage pupils’ academic success and personal development within a positive and supportive environment. The excellent curriculum provides a wide range of choices, beyond requirements, accounting for the needs of pupils of all ages, including those in the EYFS, and for those with SEND or EAL. The pupils’ excellent personal development is evident in their growing self-assurance and sense of themselves as unique individuals with specific talents.”
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