Counsellor - Place2Be

www.westcroft.devon.sch.uk

About The Role
Together, we can change children’s lives. At Place2Be, we believe every child should have easy access to mental health support whenever they need it. We create a safe place in schools where children and young people can open up without pressure or stigma. Allowing our highly skilled and diverse counsellors to reach children, young people and their families who need us.
Qualified, creative and ambitious. Sound like you? As a level 4 qualified therapist / counsellor, you’ll not only work in one to one situations with young people providing clinical assessments and interventions, you’ll also engage in the wider school community to strengthen skills, and promote understanding of child mental health and the importance of early intervention.
As part of a huge community across the United Kingdom, you’ll have opportunities to bring your fresh thinking and ideas to the table to help us shape our programmes for today and tomorrow. You’ll have access to an enormous range of training and development and a pathway to develop and grow your career.
For a career with purpose, this is your place.

Our Benefits
When you work at Place2Be - whether that's in a school, supporting families, providing clinical supervision, or in IT, Finance or Fundraising - every role can make the difference to a young person. To achieve this, we ask that you bring your best self to your role, and our commitment to you is to welcome you into our community, and help you progress. Because we know that you being at your best, means the best outcomes for the children we support. Here’s just a few things we have on offer:
• Annual Leave that increases with service;
• Comprehensive learning and development to enable you to progress your career;
• 5% contributory pension scheme;
• Life assurance of four times your annual salary;
• A comprehensive employee assistance programme;
• Mobile Phone Discounts (EE network);
• Wellbeing days to allow you some ‘you’ time;
• Christmas holidays closure period in addition to your annual leave.

Recruitment Process
As part of the application, you will need to answer some questions to support your application. Please do answer as thoroughly as you can as your answers will be used in the shortlisting process.

Safeguarding the young people we support is our top priority. We are committed to recruiting candidates who share this commitment to safeguarding, and we therefore apply robust recruitment and selection procedures to ensure all candidates are appropriate for the roles they apply for and are appropriately screened prior to appointment, including DBS checks and social media background checks.

We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith or disability. We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic candidates and disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented within our organisation.

Should you require any adjustments to help you complete an application, then please contact the recruitment team on 020 7923 5050 or jobs@place2be.org.uk.

Please note, if we receive a high volume of applications, we may close this vacancy early. If you are interested, please apply as soon as possible.