School Counsellor
Harrow School
Harrow
- Expired
- Salary:
- In the region of £34,000 pa, FTE
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2020, subject to government guidelines
- Apply by:
- 20 June 2020
Job overview
40 hours per week during term time (approximately 33 weeks per year)
Harrow School is situated in Harrow on the Hill, northwest London, and is one of the best-known schools in the world. Around 830 boys study at Harrow and live in the School’s 12 boarding houses. Employees particularly value the School’s beautiful green estate, the positive working environment, and good relationships with their colleagues.
A vacancy has arisen for a School Counsellor to work with the School Psychologist and the School doctors to deliver counselling sessions; focusing on helping the boys to be healthy, monitoring long-term conditions and supporting the delivery of School policies. He/she will provide assessment, support, guidance and advice to boys, parents and the School’s Senior Management Team.
This role will suit a candidate with a Post-graduate Diploma or Masters-level qualification in Counselling or Psychotherapy, and an accreditation from a recognised CBT or counselling professional body. The candidate will have a demonstrable understanding of the developmental, emotional, social and educational issues affecting young people from diverse backgrounds. They will pride themselves on their ability to prioritise a busy workload, make sound clinical decisions and build genuine long-term relationships through everyday interactions in order to drive up service standards, whilst enjoying being part of the life of our vibrant and historic School.
Benefits include free lunches for full-time staff, automatic enrolment in the School’s pension scheme, use of the School’s sports facilities and subsidised membership of the tennis, golf, angling and social clubs.
Application packs are available from www.harrowschool.org.uk/work-at-harrow or by contacting the HR department at recruitment@harrowschool.org.uk CVs without the application form will not be accepted as it forms the important first step in our safeguarding process.
Closing date: Sunday 21 June 2020
The role’s start date is likely to be September 2020, but the situation will be assessed in line with the impact of government guidelines.
The School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All successful applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with any past employer and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Attached documents
About Harrow School
Harrow School is an independent boarding secondary school for boys aged 13-18. It was established, by royal charter, in 1572 during the reign of Elizabeth I. It is operated as a Royal Charter Corporation, which is a charitable trust whose trustees are the school’s governors. The school licenses the Harrow name to a number of schools in Asia.
Head Master
Alastair Land
Values and vision
Harrow School believes that the success of students should not be measured purely by grades, but by their influence on the wider world.
The school believes that all organisations need strong and clearly expressed values to create identity, focus, unity and drive, and in order to answer the questions: “what do we belong to?”, “what’s important to us?”, "why do our collective efforts matter?”, and “what holds us together?”.
Harrow’s values of courage, honour, humility and fellowship aim to help the school to make decisions from day-to-day that mean members of its community behave and perform better. These four Values link closely to Harrow School’s Christian foundation, and the principles of “Godliness and good learning” established by its founder, John Lyon.
ISI report
“Pupils are high achievers in all areas of their academic lives. Their success owes much to the strong and supportive boarding community to which they all belong and which gives the encouragement to work hard and aim high, and the confidence to set themselves ambitious goals.”
“Pupils invariably work hard and utilise their strong motivation and desire to succeed, and this is one of the main drivers in their success. The strong progress they make, and their all-round excellent achievement is enabled by many innovative approaches and initiatives introduced by school leaders.”
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