School Counsellor

Grade/SCP: Band 6 SCP 25-29

Hours: 25 hours per week, 52 weeks per year

Contract: Maternity cover until May 2023

Start Date: 1st September 2022

We are looking to appoint an experienced and qualified school counsellor to deliver counselling services to students experiencing a wide range of emotional problems, providing advice and guidance to parents, carers and the school. The person appointed will hold a relevant counselling or psychotherapy qualification and experience of working in a similar role with young people would be advantageous. The successful candidate will understand mental health issues and have the ability to develop therapeutic relationships with a calm and reassuring nature. Your positive attitude and ability to engage and encourage young people will be essential, as will your ability to work flexibly to meet their individual needs?

The role is primarily to provide one to one counselling to pupils as referred by the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL), maintain appropriate secure records and provide consultation to the DSL. The School Counsellor is expected to liaise with the pastoral team, including Head's of Year, work in consultation with the School's child protection policies and network with external agencies as and when required.??

The successful candidate will preferably be experienced in a school setting and hold a Professional Diploma (Counselling) and accreditation/registration with BACP, or UKCP which are also required.?

??About us:

Situated in the beautiful Darley Abbey area on the outskirts of Derby, Saint Benedict is the city’s only Catholic Secondary school. We serve a wonderfully diverse community of students who come from over forty countries around the world and who come from all parts of Derby and beyond.

This is a great time to be joining us with results improving year on year. This is a result of considerable investment in developing our teaching staff and creating an excellent school curriculum. In our most recent inspection, Ofsted graded us as Good in every category. We celebrated our best ever GCSE and A Level results in 2019 with a Progress 8 score of +0.31 and our A Level value added in 2019 was the highest in Derby and the Diocese of Nottingham. 

Being part of the St Ralph Sherwin Catholic Multi Academy Trust

On 1st September 2018, the St Ralph Sherwin Catholic Multi Academy Trust, part of the Diocese of Nottingham, brought together 25 Catholic schools located in Derby City, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Nottinghamshire and Stockport together in partnership, to ensure the very best spiritual, social and academic experiences and outcomes for the young people in our schools.

Everything we do is to better the lives and futures of our children, providing access to first-class teaching, both academically and spiritually and we are united by our collective vision to excel.

Why work for the St Ralph Sherwin Multi Academy Trust?

To find out why you should come and join our team, click on the link to our ‘Why work with us?’ brochure.

A summary of our fantastic benefits are as follows:

• Access to first class CPD opportunities. We also work in partnership with Nottingham Teaching School Alliance to deliver meaningful and relevant CPD. Our Leadership Academy identifies and develops future leaders.
• Genuine opportunities for career progression - with 25 academies in our family, and 84 academies across the Diocese, opportunities for career progression are a reality.
• Professional assistance - you will have access to an Employee Assistance Programme which provides confidential, independent and unbiased information and guidance 24/7. If clinically advisable, it also offers face-to-face counselling sessions.
• Pension - automatic enrolment into the Teachers’ Pension Scheme with 23.68% employer contributions, or to the Local Government Pension Scheme for support staff, one of the most competitive on the market, with employer contributions of above 20% in most cases.
• Terms and Conditions - we have committed to following nationally agreed terms and conditions for pay for both teachers and support staff.

Situated in the beautiful Darley Abbey area on the outskirts of Derby, Saint Benedict is the city’s only Catholic Secondary school. We serve a wonderfully diverse community of students who come from over forty countries around the world and who come from all parts of Derby and beyond.

This is a great time to be joining us with results improving year on year. This is a result of considerable investment in developing our teaching staff and creating an excellent school curriculum. In our most recent inspection, Ofsted graded us as Good in every category. We celebrated our best ever GCSE and A Level results in 2019 with a Progress 8 score of +0.31 and our A Level value added in 2019 was the highest in Derby and the Diocese of Nottingham. 

For more information about our Trust and our Academies, please visit www.srscmat.co.uk

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