School Counsellor
St Mary's Calne
Wiltshire
- £30 per hour
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- Salaried position, contractual holiday and sick pay, EAP programme, free meals and parking on site
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2022
- Apply by:
- 1 June 2022
Job overview
We currently have an exciting opportunity at St Mary’s for a School Counsellor working term time only from September 2022 (35 weeks per year). The successful applicant will form part of a multidisciplinary team that supports the physical, mental health and emotional wellbeing of pupils at St Mary’s in accordance with professional regulatory guidelines and school policies.
The School Counsellor will provide an independent and confidential counselling service to students at St Mary’s Calne through individual sessions and preventative group work responding to their personal, social, emotional or educational concerns. The school counselling service should offer pupils a safe, non-judgemental, and confidential space to voice and explore their thoughts, feelings, and worries. They will also work with the Wellbeing Team to provide a drop-in facility for pupils and staff and use their expert knowledge and experience to undertake ongoing assessment of pupils within the counselling service in order to identify, plan, implement and review appropriate therapeutic intervention and care.
Applicants will require full BCAP accreditation with a Post-graduate Diploma or Masters level in Counselling or Psychotherapy. You will have a good understanding of the developmental, emotional, social and educational issues of children and young people and an awareness of range of needs of people from diverse ethnic, cultural and social backgrounds. Previous experience of working in a school / educational environment is desirable as is a knowledge of local mental health and CAMHS Services.
For an informal discussion regarding the role please contact Sophie Toland, Deputy Head Pastoral via email at stoland@stmaryscalne.org
This role is offered on a part time basis, 12 hours per week (ideally 2 x 6 hour days although there is some flexibility on this). The salary for this position is negotiable but will be in the region of £30 per hour.
Closing date for applications: 9am on Wednesday 1st June 2022 however potential applicants should be aware that applications may be reviewed as they are received and therefore the vacancy may close early.
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About St Mary's Calne
St Mary’s Calne is an independent boarding and day school for girls aged 11-18, a happy, purposeful and flourishing community of around 360 pupils with a 80% to 20% boarding to day ratio.
Founded in 1873, the school has been providing an outstanding education for girls for 150 years, and our alumnae have prominent positions in every profession from the law, politics and medicine to the arts, drama and sport. There is a strong tradition of the core academic subjects and strength in science and mathematics, as well as modern languages, arts and humanities.
Our Sixth Form is flourishing and highly successful, with over 120 girls. The girls benefit from exceptional careers advice and work hard to achieve their goals. Their academic results are outstanding and the girls go on to study at top UK and American universities; the striking range of courses they embark upon shows the wealth of choice available to our pupils. Many of the Sixth Form also undertake extensive pieces of independent research in the form of the Extended Project Qualification (EPQ), with 100% achieving A*s last year.
Located near the market town of Calne and amidst the natural beauty of the Wiltshire Downs, we are also within easy reach of the university towns of Bath, Bristol and Oxford and just over an hour by train from London. Our ideal location means that our girls benefit from a huge range of curriculum-enhancing opportunities as well as extra-curricular ones.
ISI May 2017: Under the new ISI framework in both quality of Pupil Achievement and Pupil Development St Mary’s was awarded the highest possible grade – Excellent. In addition, St Mary’s was found to be robustly compliant with all the ISI statutory standards in the Focused Compliance Inspection.
Our strategic plans for the next few years include the following:
- To build on and develop a high expectation and success culture amongst pupils and staff.
- To continue to develop and strengthen a fully integrated education for each girl which responds to her individual needs.
- To develop a cutting edge curriculum and extra-curriculum that anticipates and responds to the needs of the workplace and life in the 21st century and allows girls to develop their agility of mind, their independence in learning and their adaptability.
- To develop school structures, systems and facilities to support and enable our curriculum aims.
- To ensure the high profile of St Mary’s is recognised in the local, national and international community.
St Mary’s offers positions on its own pay scale based on experience and expertise. Benefits include pension scheme, reduced school fees for dependents (including girls and boys up to 11 at St Margaret’s Preparatory School), a nominal fee for on site Sport Club membership (including access to a wide range of fitness classes, swimming pool and gym) and excellent term time meals.
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