College Counsellor
Mander Portman Woodward
Kensington and Chelsea
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- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Apply by:
- 13 September 2024
Job overview
Role: College Counsellor
Location: MPW, South Kensington, London
Contracted days: Full time (One-year fixed contract)
Start date: October 2024 (flexible)
MPW is a leading fifth- and sixth-form college offering a wide range of GCSE and A level subjects in a socially relaxed yet highly academically disciplined environment.
MPW are looking to appoint a Counsellor to join our counselling team for a one-year fixed contract to provide a professional and confidential service to students in order to promote emotional health and wellbeing. As a College Counsellor you will enable the students at MPW to overcome barriers to learning and help them deal with the difficulties they may face. The counselling service is well established and a highly valued, integral part of the college’s provision and dedication to the welfare of our students.
The post-holder will carry out the regular duties of a College Counsellor with their own caseload. You will have:
- BACP accreditation, UKCP registration or BPC
- Postgraduate Diploma or Masters level in Counselling or Psychotherapy
- Minimum two years’ post-qualification experience
- Minimum one year’s experience of working with children and young people
- An understanding of the developmental, emotional, social and educational issues of children and young people
- An awareness of the range of needs of people from diverse ethnic, cultural and social backgrounds
If you feel this role suits your next career move, then we would love to hear from you. Please email your CV to: Izzie.paris@mpw.ac.uk and we will get in touch with more information.
The college is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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About Mander Portman Woodward
Mander Portman Woodward London, commonly referred to as MPW, is one of a group of independent colleges providing GCSE and A-level education for 14- to 20-year-olds. The other mixed, non-denominational colleges are located in Birmingham and Cambridge.
The school was established in 1973 by Robert Woodward, Rodney Portman and Nicholas Mander, which is where MPW gets its name. In 2016, the group was sold by Levine Leichtman Capital Partners Incorporated, a Los Angeles private equity firm, to the education firm Kaplan International.
Principal
Sally Powell
Values and Vision
Mander Portman Woodward believes in giving students as much personal attention as possible, and ensures that there are fewer than 10 students in every class. The college's mission is to work with students to turn their academic aspirations into reality. It takes students from Year 10 and has a particularly strong reputation for its sixth-form provision. It has also forged partnerships with local higher education institutions, and considers pupil entrance to prestigious universities one of its key objectives.
Each Mander Portman Woodward student is allocated a director of studies, whose role is to monitor their general welfare and assist them in making informed choices about their next educational steps.
ISI report
“Students are very well educated and the college successfully fulfils its aims. The quality of the students’ academic achievement and progress throughout the college is excellent. The provision for and achievement of those students with SEND or EAL is excellent and the provision for able gifted and talented students is good. The academic curriculum is broad and flexible timetabling allows individual programmes of study to be developed.”
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