School Counsellor
St Edmund's College
Hertfordshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- As soon as possible
- Apply by:
- 12 April 2024
Job overview
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St Edmund’s College offers modern facilities in a magnificent country setting in rural Hertfordshire, providing a safe and stimulating environment for young minds. St Edmund’s is England's oldest Catholic school offering an all-round co-education for students from 3 to 18 and for families from all faiths.
We require a School Counsellor to contribute to the work of the College’s pastoral team by providing expert therapeutic intervention and support to individual students. You will manage a caseload of students who require one to one professional therapy. You will also provide targeted intervention to support students with behavioural, social, emotional, health or familial challenges to overcome them and thrive.
- 2 days per week (Monday and Tuesday) – Term-time only
You will be working on a regular basis in a school in a role which gives opportunity for contact with children. As such, you will be in regulated activity and an enhanced DBS check (which includes children’s barred list information) will be required in advance of appointment.
Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is everyone’s responsibility. As with all College staff members, you will therefore be responsible for providing a safe environment in which children can learn.
If you would like to apply, please visit our website in order to download an application pack https://www.stedmundscollege.org/about-us/vacancies/
Closing date for applications when all forms must be received by HR is: Midday, Friday 12th April 2024.
Interviews to take place: As soon as possible after the closing date
Suitable candidates may be interviewed before the closing date, and we reserve the right to withdraw the position if an early appointment is made.
Telephone: 01920 824335
Email: hr@stedmundscollege.org
The College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Candidates will be required to undergo relevant Safeguarding Checks. We may seek references on short-listed candidates that will include questions about past disciplinary actions or allegations in relation to behaviour with children and may approach previous employers for information to verify particular experience or qualifications before interview.
This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.
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About St Edmund's College
An Independent Catholic Day and Boarding school, and England's oldest Catholic school, St Edmund's welcomes girls and boys from 3 to 18 years and from all faiths who appreciate the benefits of a Catholic education. Our historic campus offers modern facilities in a magnificent country setting, providing a safe and stimulating environment for young minds.
Scholarship is at the heart of our mission and our students are encouraged to learn, to explore and to ask the difficult questions. Small classes ensure that the academic progress of each student is regularly monitored and at every stage we adjust our teaching to suit the ability and needs of each child. The excellent relationships shared by our teachers and students create a positive setting for progress and success in the classroom. Students are encouraged to think independently and not to hold themselves back through fear of making mistakes.
Whilst we welcome students whatever their belief, the Catholic approach to education, with its distinctive ethos, remains at the heart of all we do in creating a learning community. What makes an Edmundian is a combination of academic endeavour, spiritual awareness and a strong sense of personal and social responsibility. At St Edmund’s we are committed not just to the academic growth of every child but also to his or her spiritual development regardless of religious background.
Today St Edmund’s offers not simply an education for Catholics but a Catholic education, welcoming people of all faiths ready to embrace the values that have made it and its predecessors such a successful seat of learning for over 400 years. Visitors say how they are struck by the atmosphere of the College which fosters a special sense of community and self awareness amongst staff and students who work here. Its four-hundred-year tradition of scholarship and spiritual reflection is still felt today in the classrooms and corridors.
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