Additional Information
Contract Type: Permanent Contract Term: TTO - Term time only Hours per Week: 7.00 Weeks per Year: 39.000 Pay Grade: Support Staff | 29 - 33The Role
The BRIT School is looking for a dynamic, innovative and reflective counsellor/psychotherapist to provide excellent counselling to the school.
This 1 day a week role allows for the right person to positively contribute to the therapeutic work that takes place in support of the mental and emotional wellbeing of the students aged 14-18. Experience of engaging and working with adolescents is therefore essential.
This exciting opportunity requires someone who is highly motivated and has the capacity to be playful, warm and empathic.
Supporting the day to day running of the Counselling Service is also a part of the role, which would need for the successful candidate to be familiar with using computerised systems and applications.
We are particularly interested in hearing from those within the Global Majority and LGBTQ+ communities.
The BRIT School is a unique institution offering specialist education in the arts and related technologies, alongside the full range of National Curriculum subjects. It is sponsored by the British Record Industry Trust and has a unique relationship with the performing arts industries.
The BRIT School runs a five term academic year with some school holidays falling at different times to the standard three term school breaks. Please see our website for further details of our term dates.
The BRIT School is committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.
Qualifications
Qualification Title | Grade | |
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Counselling Skills qualification |
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Skills
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Qualified counsellor or psychotherapist, accredited by BACP or UKCP, or other equivalent body- or accreditable |
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Relevant Skills | |
Understanding and experience of Google software and basic computerised systems. |
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Excellent organisational skills. |
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Excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate effectively with everyone in the school community. |
Essential
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Personal Attributes | |
Proven ability to build supportive and positive relationships with colleagues. |
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Able to use supervision transparently and reflectively. |
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Able to use feedback constructively, and to offer feedback as appropriate to clients, colleagues and line manager |
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Experience | |
Proven ability to build relationships with young people, including those not interested in engaging therapeutically |
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Proven recent record of successful therapeutic work with young people, showing a wide range of presenting issues including (but not only) low self-esteem, self-harm, suicidal thoughts and feelings, anxiety, panic attacks, ASD, anger, confrontational behaviour, transitions. |
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Whilst this is primarily an adolescent focused role, experience of working with adults in a therapeutic setting is also necessary. |
Essential
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Safeguarding Information
The BRIT School is committed to providing a safe and secure environment for children, staff, and visitors and promoting a climate where children and adults will feel confident about sharing any concerns they may have about their own safety or the well-being of others.
Here is a Safeguarding Policy
Counsellors Department at The BRIT School
60 The Crescent
Croydon
London
CR0 2HN
Lisa Hills
lhills@brit.croydon.sch.uk