School Counsellor
Dartford Science & Technology College
Dartford, Kent
- £21,728 per year
- New
- Quick apply
- Salary:
- KS8 FTE
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- ASAP
- Apply by:
- 6 November 2024
Job overview
We are seeking to appoint a qualified counsellor with experience of working with young people aged 11-16 and their families, to enable us to provide onsite support and counselling to students and to broaden the support and services which we are able to offer to pupils, parents and staff.
The school counsellor’s primary duty will be the counselling of students aged 11-16; other duties include support for staff and work with parents. The counsellor will liaise closely with CAMHS and other agencies involved with the child and family.
This is an exceptional opportunity for an individual who wants to make a real difference to the mental health and wellbeing of our students.
KEY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
- To provide an independent and confidential counselling service for students who are referred individually or in groups for a range of issues including mental health, behavioural and emotional difficulties, bereavement and school refusers to improve their well-being and educational outcomes, including to plan and deliver small and large group work on a wide range of relevant issues in consultation with the school.
- To counsel young people who are at risk of safeguarding issues such as sexual exploitation, radicalisation and abuse
- Working with students to support their emotional well being including cases of suicidal thoughts, eating disorders and self-harm.
- To recognise difficult risky behaviours such as use of illegal substances and alcohol.
- To take part in intake meetings where appropriate.
- To provide regular audit information such as numbers, age range and types of problems to the SLT line manager.
- To facilitate workshops with parent/carer/family of students where appropriate.
- To devise and monitor appropriate treatment programmes, including therapy, counselling or advice, in collaboration with colleagues.
- To evaluate and make decisions about psychological intervention.
- To maintain confidential records and ensure that these are kept in a secure location.
- To perform duties within the professional codes of practice and ethical frameworks for counsellors.
- To be alert to trends and patterns of problems and be willing to identify causes and recommend corrective action with senior staff
- As and when requested, to devise, and where appropriate, deliver training/group work to students and/or staff or parents
- To provide information/reports when requested to enable the service to be reviewed and evaluated.
- To be responsible for their own professional development, maintenance and updating knowledge and awareness through continuing professional development (CPD).
- To maintain a high level of knowledge and awareness of changes and developments in the fields of counselling and education and their impact on the delivery counselling.
- To ensure that as a counsellor, they are properly and regularly supervised.
- To provide professional advice, counselling and support to staff.
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About Dartford Science & Technology College
We are proud to be a popular and oversubscribed stand alone Foundation school working with the Co-operative Trust. Consequently we embrace the Trust ethos of self-help, self-responsibility, democracy, equity, equality and solidarity. We are the only non-selective girls’ school in Dartford which makes us unique. Despite the competitive environment of the selective system, many of our students have passed the Kent selection test and thrive in our ambitious, developmental and safe environment: regardless of their starting point, all students have the opportunity to flourish.
It is an exciting time in our journey and all staff have the opportunity to drive meaningful change. We have a culture of high quality teaching underpinned by a belief that all lessons should challenge, support and inspire students to be intellectually curious and develop a lifelong passion for learning. We are aspirational for our students and promote engagement in learning across the school and teachers enjoy being able to teach in an environment which prioritises this.
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