Student Counsellor
Blackpool Sixth Form College
Blackpool
- Expired
- Salary:
- £7,613 to £8,308 per annum for 14.5 hours per week term time only
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- August 2019
- Apply by:
- 23 June 2019
Job overview
Student Counsellor
Blackpool Sixth is an outstanding college specialising in 16-19 education, we have an exciting opportunity for a Student Counsellor to join our team. This permanent position is well suited to you if you can raise levels of retention, achievement and wellbeing of students by providing high-quality counselling in a thriving and supportive workplace. This post is part-time, 14.5 hours per week over 2 days and is term time only.
Based in Additional Support you will work with our current counsellor and with others in the department to provide counselling support to a caseload of students. In this role, you will:
- identify counselling and mental health needs through an initial assessment of student need
- provide confidential counselling to students to enhance emotional wellbeing
- support and advise other staff who may be working with students with emotional issues.
Do you have a counselling diploma (level 4) or degree in counselling? Do you have experience of working successfully with young people in the 16-19 age group? Are you excited about the opportunity to deliver counselling support to our students? If you have answered yes to these questions then click here https://jobs.blackpoolsixth.ac.uk/job-vacancies to apply now and find out more about the college.
Closing date: 9am on 24th June 2019
Interviews: 4th July 2019
The health and wellbeing of our staff is important to us, we have recently launched a health and wellbeing group whose mission is to help create a healthy working environment for staff and students through the promotion of a healthy and balanced lifestyle.
We are an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of a protected characteristic, or is disadvantaged by any conditions or any related individual requirements. We welcome applications from all sections of the community and all diverse groups. The college provides equality of access, services and care to everyone, regardless of people’s age, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression or trans status, race, religion or belief or sexual orientation.
All staff will be carefully selected using recruitment and selection procedures designed to emphasise the college’s commitment to safeguarding. All posts, including volunteers, are subject to enhanced DBS clearance. Due to the number of applications we get for each post, we will only be able to contact you should you be shortlisted for interview.
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About Blackpool Sixth Form College
- Blackpool Sixth Form College
- Blackpool Old Road, Blackpool
- Lancashire
- FY3 7LR
- United Kingdom
We are a high-achieving sixth form, giving our students an excellent springboard to success. We educate the whole student, providing all with excellent teaching and opportunities for growth and personal development. We are recognised by Ofsted as an outstanding sixth form. We are relatively small in size, with just over 2000 students and approximately 200 staff. This means that we are a close and caring community.
We serve the whole Fylde Coast area, which includes Poulton-le-Fylde and Lytham St Annes, as well as Blackpool and the surrounding towns and villages. Blackpool Sixth is a friendly, positive and supportive place to work and is rated Grade One: Outstanding by Ofsted (2009). In 2009, we became one of the first organisations in the country to be awarded the Investors in People Gold Award. Staff are committed to the needs and aspirations of our students and supported by an extensive programme of staff development.
Staff are highly committed to the needs and aspirations of our students. The continued growth in student numbers and planned curriculum developments has enabled the sixth form to invest in new staff and new buildings. The college is designated as a Teaching School in partnership with Hodgson Academy and it's a really exciting time to be part of Blackpool Sixth.
All new staff are offered a thorough induction program; this is supplemented for Newly Qualified Teachers with a comprehensive series of training sessions throughout the academic year. All new staff are allocated a mentor in their probationary year, they are here to offer support and guidance in your new role.It's not just teachers that we develop, both teaching and support staff are involved in an annual programme of staff development, supported by individual performance management reviews and training and development plans.
On top of the internal opportunities staff now also benefit from a wider programme of Continuing Professional Development events which come from being part of the Teaching School Alliance, these include nationally accredited programmes.
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