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Salary Permanent, Part Time 0.49TE (21 hours over 4 days per week)
Term Time Only (38 weeks per annum)
The Student Counsellor post is an important role providing qualified therapeutic support to students. The Student Counsellor will be part of a Student Services team, whose role is to support students to overcome barriers to successfully achieve. The Student Counsellor will provide drop-in sessions for personal advice and crisis counselling and will carry a counselling caseload of short-term clients. They will also provide advice and contribute to mental health support, training and consultation to the College, support concerns from safeguarding staff where assessing risk and producing a safety plan may be required and where required liaise with GPs and make referrals to external provision for young people and adults at risk.
With an MSc/Diploma in Counselling/Psychology and BACP/UKCP registered, you will have significant experience of providing counselling and welfare advice in the education, health, public or voluntary sectors and of therapeutic interventions that are suitable for short term counselling preferably with adults and young people.
We anticipate the hours for this post to be worked over four days.
Closing date for the return of completed applications is 17th January 2024
The benefits package includes generous annual leave of 27 days plus up to 8 additional days over Christmas/New Year as well as an additional 5 days Wellbeing leave to enhance employees’ physical and mental health. This leave is all in addition to Bank Holiday entitlement. There is an excellent pension scheme that receives a significant financial contribution from the employer (Teachers Pensions or Local Government Pension Scheme), subsidised sports facilities and professional development and training plus a salary sacrifice cycle to work scheme. The benefits package is pro-rated for all part time staff.
South Thames Colleges Group is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults.
As outlined in the Public Sector Equality Duty of the Equality Act 2010, we are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.
As part of our due diligence checks on prospective employees, successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check, satisfactory references, an online search and proof of eligibility to work in the UK.
The South Thames Colleges Group is made up of Carshalton College, Kingston College, Merton College and South Thames College, which merged on 1 August 2017. South Thames Colleges Group is one of London’s largest providers of post-16 education and training and is an ongoing and significant contributor to its local communities. We aim to put students’ success at the heart of everything we do.
We are looking for hard-working and collaborative people who can join our team and help challenge our students to progress and achieve.
When you click on ‘Apply’, you will be forwarded to the application page which sits on a platform hosted by an external partner called Blue Octopus who support STCG throughout the recruitment process.
