Student Counsellor
Solihull Sixth Form College
Solihull
- £25,638 - £28,217 per year
- Expired
- Salary:
- Salary: Grade E, Full time equivalent range £25,638-£28,217 (actual salary after pro rata £8,711.12-£9,587.39)
- Job type:
- Part Time, Maternity Cover
- Start date:
- 31/08/2021
- Apply by:
- 18 June 2021
Job overview
Post: Student Counsellor (Fixed Term Maternity cover until March 2022)
Term Time only (38 weeks per year) 15 hours per week.
Required: 31st August 2021
Salary: Grade E, Full time equivalent range £25,638-£28,217 (actual salary after pro rata £8,711.12-£9,587.39)
We are seeking to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced counsellor to join our counselling team. The team provides a professional and confidential counselling service to students, promoting their emotional health and well-being and building their resilience to help them cope with the difficulties they face.
To be successful you will hold a diploma in counselling or equivalent as well as have BACP membership of affiliation to another professional counselling body. You will also have experience in providing counselling or therapy to individuals or groups, ideally with experience of working with under 18 year olds.
Join our friendly, thriving and supportive staff here at The Sixth Form College, Solihull. We aspire to be outstanding professionally and personally, taking time to invest in everything we do, to develop transformative life chances for all of our students and to stretch their potential to the full.
The Sixth Form College, Solihull is a large, culturally diverse specialist in A Levels and Level 3 BTEC qualifications, and part of the Summit Learning Trust.
Why work for us?
The Trust offers:
• A strong focus on staff care and wellbeing
• High quality training and support in and across academies
• A clear career pathway
• Employee assistance programme
• Employee discount schemes
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 gender reassignment, age, disability, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy/maternity or race.
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our students and we expect all applicants to share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure, including a Children’s barred list check.
Attached documents
About Solihull Sixth Form College
- Solihull Sixth Form College
- Widney Manor Road, Solihull
- West Midlands
- B91 3WR
- United Kingdom
Solihull Sixth Form College is a sixth form college for 16-19 year olds in Solihull and Birmingham. Part of the Summit Learning Trust, the college has more than 2,000 students. The large majority of courses are A levels, but vocational courses (mostly BTECs) are also available.
Founded in 1974, the college boasts extensive sport facilities, as well as a library containing tens of thousands of books and digital resources. The Sixth Form College, Solihull has official links with a number of other educational institutions, including secondary schools and universities, via the Specialist Academies project.
Principal
Martin Sullivan
Values and vision
Solihull Sixth Form College emphasises flexible study, with students having the freedom to select a wide variety of subjects in any combination. The college provides extensive support for students completing Extended Project Qualifications, as well as offering a number of BTEC and CACHE courses to supplement this. As part of the college’s ethos of academic flexibility, extra-curricular activities are also well supported, with activities ranging from sport, drama, music, a volunteer project in The Gambia, a Pre-Medical School, a Psychology Research School and much more”
Ofsted report
"Students enjoy their learning. They rightly feel valued and well supported by teachers in class. Students develop positive attitudes towards their learning.”
https://files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/50147869
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