Volunteer School Counsellor
Heathside School
Surrey
- Expired
- Salary:
- Volunteer
- Job type:
- Part Time, Temporary
- Start date:
- As soon as possible
- Apply by:
- 6 December 2022
Job overview
Volunteer School Counsellor
Starting – As soon as possible
Minimum 3-4 hours per week, term time
ElmWey Learning Trust is a multi-academy trust, comprising two local secondary schools including Heathside Weybridge, a successful, oversubscribed 11-18 secondary school and Heathside Walton which opened this September (2022). We are committed to supporting the mental health and wellbeing of our students, staff and parents.
This position will be based at Heathside Weybridge. A whole school approach to wellbeing is embedded in the school, culminating in Heathside receiving the National Children’s Bureau’s Wellbeing Award for Schools in July 2019. When visiting the school, the assessors commented, “The school provides a wide range of tiered interventions to support mental health and wellbeing delivered by skilled staff and external agencies. Students know who and where to go to for support for in school and are signposted to other organisations.”
We are looking for an enthusiastic and committed volunteer trainee counsellor or psychotherapist to join our therapy team who:
• Is able to commit to a minimum of 3-4 hours of student counselling aged 11-18 per week during term time for at least 2 academic terms
• Is enrolled on a BACP, UKCP or BPS accredited course
• Has a minimum of 50 clinical hours experience
Application forms and the full job profile are available from our website. To apply please email completed application forms and letter of application. CVs cannot be accepted.
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About Heathside School
Heathside is a high achieving 11-18 co-educational converter academy with 7 forms of entry totalling 1264 students on roll, 202 of whom are in the sixth form. In 2019 91% of students achieved Grade 4 English and Mathematics. At A level 71% of students gained A*/B and our 3 year Alps T score was 3.44. The school’s value added has risen year on year together with its GCSE average point score. Although we are pleased with this progress, which places us in the top 20% of schools nationally, (P8 0.41) we think we can do even better and our aim is to be one of the highest achieving schools not just in Surrey but nationally.
Our staff are extremely dedicated. Many began their teaching careers at Heathside and have grown and developed into both pastoral and curriculum leaders. CPD is valued and tailored to meeting the needs of our staff and improving teaching and learning. We have a small team of Lead Practitioners, who work with the Assistant Principal, CPD, to offer a wide-ranging training programme to staff.
Our students predominately come from Weybridge and travel to school by foot, bicycle or train, with the furthest catchment area distance being 1.6 miles from the school. Year on year the school is heavily over-subscribed. The prior attainment of students at KS2 is above the National average and they make very good progress at expected and more than expected measures. Like all schools though, we still feel that there is more that we could be doing to achieve even better outcomes. We are a self- evaluating school and regularly look to see what we can do better to improve all areas of provision.
The school was graded as 'Good' in the last Ofsted inspection. In the 2018 report, Leadership and management, Behaviour and safety and the Sixth Form were judged outstanding. Governance was also found to be a key strength. You can read all of the reports on our website.
The School is at an exciting phase of development, having become a converter Academy in September 2015 and a single multi-academy under the ElmWey Learning Trust. With the support of Surrey County Council the Trust has successfully bid to set up a 6 form entry free school in 2021. This is to fulfil a basic need for more school places within Elmbridge, where pupil numbers are set to rise markedly by this point in time.
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