Young Persons Counsellor - Doncaster, United Kingdom - Ridgewood School

Ridgewood School

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Doncaster, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

TITLE:
Young Persons Counsellor

RESPONSIBLE TO:
Senior Counsellor

PURPOSE:

To provide professional counselling support for young people within the school

To develop a highquality counselling provision within the school's wellbeing centre
To provide a lunchtime dropin service to support whole school wellbeing
To liaise with staff and professionals to gather, receive and exchange information when appropriate, and within the guidelines of data protection and safeguarding law.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES/KEY AREAS:

Main duties and responsibilities

To assess and manage referrals for counselling support
To provide counselling support to identified students
To maintain an appointment led counselling service
To maintain accurate and confidential client records
To engage positively and enthusiastically with students, no matter what their difficulty, in order to support them to engage and achieve
To assist the senior counsellor with counselling and wellbeing statistics data
To contribute to regular counselling/wellbeing evaluation reports
To promote wellbeing within school
To provide an efficient and effective lunch time dropin service
To follow the school policies and procedures regarding safeguarding concerns
To attend meetings as appropriate within contracted hours
To contribute to policies and procedures that impact on the health and wellbeing of staff, students and parents

Miscellaneous

To take an appropriate role in the life of the school supporting its distinctive ethos and values, and actively promoting its policies and practices.
To dress in a professional manner in line with the school dress code.
To undertake any other duties as may be reasonably required by the Headteacher.
To participate in the process of annual review
To be aware of the responsibility for personal Health, Safety and Welfare and that of others who may be affected by your actions or inactions.
To cooperate with the employer on all issues to do with Health, Safety and Welfare.
These duties and responsibilities should be regarded as neither exhaustive nor exclusive as the postholder may be required to undertake other reasonably determined duties and responsibilities commensurate with the grading of the post.
To undertake appropriate training as required in order to be able to undertake the duties and responsibilities that are required.

Benefits:

Paid supervision with external supervisor
Please note: supervision must be taken outside of working hours
CPD required to maintain counselling ethical guidelines can be completed within working hours where available
Please note: hours for CPD not able to be fulfilled for this during working hours must be completed outside of working hours

8:30 - 3:30 hours 5 days per week hours, term time only

This job role sits alongside the requirement for staff to abide by all school policies and relevant national and local requirements including terms and conditions and national standards.

This job profile is not exhaustive and the post holder may be required to undertake other duties as necessary and appropriate.

Note:
This job description is not your contract of employment or any part of it.

It has been prepared only for the purpose of school organisation and may change either as your contract changes or as the organisation of the school is changed.

Job Type:
Part-time

Salary:
£19,843.00-£22,753.00 per year

Expected hours: 32.5 per week

Schedule: