About The Role
12 Month Fixed Term Contract
Hours: 14hrs p/w
Days: Mondays and Tuesdays
Location: G75 9DW
As a School Based Counsellor for Place2Be, you will provide a counselling service for children in our partner schools, ensuring the children and young people are provided with therapeutic and emotional support. You will ensure high quality clinical practice and delivery of a full and effective service in all Place2Be schools.
If you are a Qualified Counsellor, Psychotherapist, Arts Psychotherapist, Clinical or Counselling Psychologist, with experience of working with children and young people, this is a role you should consider applying for.
- Undertake one-to-one clinical work with children and/or young people
- Plan and deliver Place2Talk
- Plan and deliver group work in consultation with the school and the line manager
- Identify and discuss potential referrals with school staff keeping the line manager informed
- Build, develop and maintain effective professional relationships with the Head teacher, school leadership team and wider school community to deliver Place2Be’s model of counselling and therapeutic support
- Identify and report any safeguarding and child protection concerns following Place2Be’s policies and procedures
- Actively participate in team meetings to share best practice and develop clinical thinking, knowledge and learning
- Participate in supervision with Line Manager and discuss and report any concerns or issues arising from the supervisions that have taken place within your own work
About You
Will have a recognised counselling or therapy qualification with substantial post-qualifying experience, along with a good knowledge of the school environment. Most important of all is your approach; we are an exciting, dynamic organisation doing amazing work so we’re looking for people with the enthusiasm and commitment to match our own.
- Hold a recognised qualification in Counselling or Therapy
- Hold recognised membership of a relevant professional body(BACP/ PTUK/ UKCP/NCS/BPS)
- Post qualified experience in a clinical role and an understanding of children, young people and schools
- Demonstrate an understanding of working with children and families in need, including those in need of emotional and therapeutic support
- Posses a willingness to undertake work with parents, carers and school staff
- Manage and account for overall clinical caseload
- hold a qualification in supervision (desirable)
In return we offer you a range of fantastic benefits including:
- Enhanced Annual Leave entitlement
- Robust Learning and Development Programme
- Contributory Pension Scheme
- Life Assurance, 4x Annual Salary
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Mobile Phone Discounts (EE Network)
- Cycle purchase and season ticket loan schemes
- Extended Maternity/Paternity Pay
If you share our core values of perseverance, integrity, compassion and creativity and have the counselling skills and patience to support some of the UK’s most vulnerable young people and families, we would love you to join us. It’s sensitive and demanding work – but hugely rewarding and fulfilling – you will be helping to give young people a brighter future.
Please view/download the full Job Description and Person Specification on our website for further details.
About Us
Children’s mental health charity, Place2Be, has been providing in-school support and expert training to improve the emotional wellbeing of pupils, families, teachers and school staff in Scottish primary and secondary schools since 2001.
Starting with an initial pilot in two Edinburgh primary schools, Place2Be Scotland now reaches over 14,000 pupils and their families in schools across Glasgow, Edinburgh, South Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, Dundee, Angus, Perth and Kinross and South Ayrshire. Our training programme includes a Mental Health Champions Foundation Course available free of charge to 50,000 teachers across the UK and support for School Leaders.
As an established leader in the field Place2Be has also been commissioned by the Scottish Government to deliver a nationwide support service for school leaders, teachers and staff across Scotland. In addition we are working in partnership with the University of Edinburgh to support teachers of the future to develop their resilience, understand children’s mental health and wellbeing and contribute to mental healthy schools.
We are committed to supporting the social, emotional and mental wellbeing of children and young people in the crucial formative years of their lives. Our expert teams provide pupils and their families with emotional and therapeutic support, as well as delivering training within school communities. All of our work is evidence-based, using tried and tested methods, backed by research.
Place2Be’s mental health practitioners currently work directly within over 40 school communities – supporting school leaders, school staff, children, young people and their families in some of Scotland’s most deprived communities.
We build children and young people’s resilience to face life’s challenges through talking, creative work and play, enabling them to focus on their education and realise their full potential. We also support parents, carers and school staff to become more ‘mentally healthy’.
