School Counsellor
King Edward's Witley
Surrey
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- As soon as possible
- Apply by:
- 29 November 2022
Job overview
We seek an outstanding professional who will provide counselling within the school and who has the further ambition, skills and aptitude to play a key role within a multi-disciplinary team supporting and promoting wellbeing and mental health to all members of the community.
This is a key role, at a pivotal moment for the school as we continue our wide-ranging expansion of provision for wellbeing, emotional and mental health as a central aspect of our academic, pastoral and spiritual care, and drive to promote these as the keystone in our holistic approach to education.
Our Head of Counselling will be an important provider of support to both individuals and groups of children across the School and will therefore play an integral role in our pastoral care. In doing so, they will provide a safe, neutral, and non-judgmental space for our pupils to explore their feelings and emotions, enabling them to fulfil their full potential.
In addition, the Counsellor will contribute to the School’s commitment to staff wellbeing by offering support and guidance to those staff who feel it would be of benefit, both in relation to their working environment and home commitments.
The right candidate will be skilled in advising key staff on general issues of mental health, wellbeing, and emotional literacy, helping them to prepare for particular conversations, and respond to problems. The Head of Counselling will be a leading contributor to the Pupil Wellbeing Committee, the School’s “hub” for pastoral and safeguarding issues.
The pupil body is diverse, the School draws from a thriving local day market, a predominantly international boarding cohort and the Foundation pupils who, with significant boarding needs, are central to the School’s mission. Such diversity, in addition to the issues commonly experienced by all teenagers, will offer scope to exercise a wide range of professional skills, qualities and experience. The successful candidate will find this to be a rewarding role.
The School offers a competitive salary, pension scheme, fee remission on School fees both at King Edward’s and Barrow Hills Prep School, free car parking, free use of our gym, swimming pool and sports facilities, all meals and snacks on duty and a Cycle to Work Scheme.
King Edward's School is a co-educational boarding and day 11-18 school for some 400 pupils, around 35% of whom are full boarders. We are an HMC school and proud of our unique heritage and place among British co-educational independent schools.
For further details, visit our website www.kesw.org or contact the HR Department on HR@KESW.ORG or telephone 01428 686739.
To apply, please click the Apply button to complete the Application Form.
Closing date for applications: Noon, Tuesday 13th December 2022.
Applications will be considered on receipt and early application is recommended as we reserve the right to interview and offer the position before the closing date.
King Edward’s School Witley is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. All successful applicants are required to complete an Enhanced disclosure through the DBS. Applicants from underrepresented groups are particularly welcome.
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About King Edward's Witley
King Edward’s – yesterday, today, tomorrow
Yesterday
As one of the longest-standing co-educational schools in the country and one of only two remaining Royal Hospitals from Tudor times, King Edward’s Witley has a rich history of providing an education which is holistic, inclusive and progressive.
Nicholas Ridley, Bishop of London, convinced the boy King Edward VI to grant his palace at Bridewell on the banks of the Thames to the Lord Mayor of London, so creating the parent foundation – Bridewell Royal Hospital – as a place for the training and education of poor children in 1553. In 1860, the new charity scheme for Bridewell Royal Hospital was created and the House of Occupations was renamed King Edward’s School admitting boys and girls from aged 10.
The pupils from King Edward’s Boys’ School moved to its current site in Witley in 1867 and the School now occupies around 100 acres of stunning Surrey countryside. The School became co-educational again in 1952 and 2017 marked the 150th anniversary of the Witley school on its current site.
Today and tomorrow
We are steadfastly proud of our heritage and longstanding engagement with the City of London through the Bridewell Foundation. King Edward’s Witley and Barrow Hills School are the operational arms of Bridewell Royal Hospital, a charitable Foundation from which both schools inherit a culture with diversity, generosity, opportunity and social responsibility at its heart, combining a global outlook with a sense of local belonging. More concretely, a significant endowment from Bridewell allows us to provide boarding places to pupils with a clear boarding need – our Foundationers.
King Edward’s holds true to its Founders’ mission to offer a foundation for life to young people from a range of backgrounds. At King Edward’s this means an exciting and challenging curriculum, a broad range of sporting, artistic, social and cultural opportunities and an environment which is specifically created to inculcate the values of independent learning, responsibility for others and the enjoyment of challenge.
Pupil experience is at the heart of what we do. The School has over 475 pupils, many of whom are day pupils from primary and Prep Schools. Boarding is a core pillar of the King Edward's community, with over 140 boarders accommodated in Houses including an Upper Sixth pre-university House. All pupils, day and boarder belong to a house and are cared for by their Housemaster/ Housemistress and their team.
Around 30% of pupils live abroad, in over 30 different countries and there is a growing cohort of local day pupils. The Sixth Form generally numbers more than 100 pupils, most of whom go on to study at Russell Group, Oxford and Cambridge (in small numbers), and leading European or US-based universities.
Tradition continues to be highly valued and close links with the City of London remain through the Court of Bridewell (Board of Governors). The Lord Mayor attends Admissions Day and the School’s annual Foundation Day Service at St. Bride’s Church. Pupils participate in a range of events and activities associated with the City of London, perpetuating the School’s links with its historic roots.
The School has a long tradition of philanthropy and addressing disadvantage and vulnerability. King Edward’s offers welfare bursaries through the Bridewell Foundation, livery companies and other charities, for young people who are less advantaged and who have a particular need for a boarding education. Over 50 pupils are supported by the Foundation and other charities with financial contributions equal to annual boarding fees to attend the School. King Edward’s is proud of its ongoing work transforming the lives of disadvantaged young people through providing a safe, fulfilling and purposeful educational environment.
The Head is a member of HMC.
Further details of the School are to be found in the Independent Schools’ Yearbook, or on our website www.kesw.org.
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