School Counsellor at - Farnham, United Kingdom - More House School

More House School

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Farnham, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Part-time, permanent, non-residential position starting September 2023, or as soon as possible thereafter.

A committed and highly professional BACP/UKCP training accredited Counsellor, with previous experience of counselling children and young people, is sought to join our Pupil Counselling Service Team in the role of Therapeutic Counsellor. The skills and accreditation to address through counselling post-adoption support-needs will be considered a particular advantage. Our Counselling team are committed to offering a dedicated and ethical counselling service which contributes to the wider pastoral provision of the school.

Our staff are committed and inspirational, transforming the futures of pupils with literacy and language-related additional challenges, by empowering them.

Our School vision is:

To lead in transforming the futures of intelligent children who experience Specific Learning Difficulties, Developmental Language Disorder and associated conditions, by empowering them.

Our School Values are:

Kindness - Spirit - Responsibility

The School:

Nationally celebrated, More House School provides an exceptional, mainstream education for intelligent boys with Specific Learning Difficulties and weakness in their developmental language skills.

Providing a transformative education repeatedly recognised as 'Outstanding' by Ofsted over more than a decade, we offer a specialised learning environment for day and boarding boys from Year 4 to Year 13.

Our pupils are taught to recognise their strengths and develop their self-belief so that they achieve independence and extraordinary results at GCSE, BTEC and A' Level, above the national averages.

A majority progress to university. Class-sizes are small, with a maximum of 15 pupils.

Delivering a mainstream independent-school experience, both academically and socially, the very broad curriculum affords all pupils the opportunity to discover their strengths, challenging them to fulfil their academic and extra-curricular potential.

All boys who attend More House are individually timetabled, with many receiving support through the on-site Learning Development Centre and its qualified therapeutic staff.

Judged 'Outstanding' by Ofsted in its last five School inspections, our most recent inspection (March 2023) graded More House School 'Outstanding' overall, and 'Outstanding' in each of the six sub-sections of the report.

The School's provision for residential boarders was inspected at the same time, and likewise graded Outstanding in every respect.

More House is CReSTeD approved, listed in their Specialist Schools category, and is a member of the Independent Schools Association and the Boarding Schools' Association.

The School is set on a wooded hillside in nearly thirty acres on the Hampshire/Surrey border and within the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Attractive modern facilities lie above the playing fields.

About the department:

More House School has a comprehensive pastoral support capability in place, comprising dedicated form-tutors and residential houseparents, year-group pastoral leads (Heads of Year), the School surgery and its Registered Nurses, a Lay-Chaplain, the Safeguarding team, a Director of Pastoral Care, and senior leaders, including the Deputy Head (Pastoral).

Vital within the School's offer to pupils is the provision of one-to-one counselling for those pupils who are identified as benefitting from such specialist support.

The School has provided such support for many years, and the service is well-established.

We work to a flexible model of provision with an initial offer of 12 weeks, regularly reviewed, and with the option to work longer-term, aligning with clinically identified need.

The Counselling Team has recently implemented a Sixth Form self-referral service and has plans to offer this to all 16-year-olds whilst also offering parents the ability to refer directly.

We currently work out of dedicated counselling rooms and are anticipating a new counselling suite as part of the School's next stage of building development.

About this post:

The Headmaster seeks to appoint an enthusiastic, resilient, open-minded and highly professional individual to work alongside our two current School Counsellors - Christine Sanderson (Lead Counsellor) and (Play Therapist) Simone Mark.

The role is primarily to provide one-to-one counselling to pupils in accordance with the Service Level Agreement, ensuring continuity of care; to maintain appropriate records; to liaise with the counselling team, with parents and with other professionals as appropriate; to report any concerns of significant harm to a child to the Designated Safeguarding Lead; to consistently demonstrate the professional attributes and competencies associated with the post.

The capacity to provide specialist post-adoption support to clients is considered a particular advantage. Skills in brief therapy models such as Cogniti