Counselling Clinical Lead and Head of Wellbeing
Woodbridge High School
Redbridge
- £28,958 - £44,241 per year
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- LBR13 £49,083 - £52,116 - full time equivalent
- Job type:
- Full Time, Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- May 2024
- Apply by:
- 22 April 2024
Job overview
Counselling Clinical Lead and Head of Wellbeing
(School Counsellor / Psychotherapist)
LBR13 £49,083- £52,116
25 Hours (£28,958-£30,748 pro rata) to 36 Hours (£41,666 - £44,241 pro rata)
Per Week/Term Time Only
(number of hours / flexible working negotiable for the right candidate)
Required for May 2024
Woodbridge High School is a successful school situated in the heart of Woodford Green, North East London. It is fully comprehensive with an ethnically and socially diverse intake. The school has a strong and distinctive ethos of kindness, strength in diversity, respect, excellence and pride in achievement, which we call ‘The Woodbridge Way’. We enjoy an excellent reputation within the local community. We achieve impressive results year after year from a fully comprehensive intake.
We are currently seeking to appoint a Counselling Clinical Lead and Head of Wellbeing to lead the school’s strategic provision for wellbeing and counselling. This includes managing the school’s Wellbeing Team (counsellors and mentors), delivering a psychological therapy service to students (individuals and groups), managing the assessment and triage process for counselling and mentoring, and supporting the development of mental and emotional wellbeing across the whole school.
The successful applicant must have a counselling or psychotherapy qualification, be registered with the BACP / UKCP (or equivalent professional body), and have experience of counselling / therapy within a school setting. It would be desirable for the successful candidate to be also an accredited member of their professional body.
Woodbridge High School offers you:
· The opportunity to work in a highly regarded school
· A welcoming and friendly staff body
· Motivated, well-behaved and friendly students
· Clear behaviour systems and students who understand boundaries
· Access to state-of-the-art sports and leisure facilities
· Tailored professional development and training
· A comprehensive staff wellbeing package
Woodbridge High School welcomes applications from candidates from all backgrounds. We actively seek to ensure that our staff is reflective of the diversity of our student body.
The school is committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children. All candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check, satisfactory references and overseas checks where necessary. Shortlisted candidate will also be subject to an online search.
Further details about the school are available on the school website: www.woodbridgehigh.co.uk
Attached documents
About Woodbridge High School
Headteacher: Steven Hogan
Woodbridge High School is a thriving, ethnically diverse, successful comprehensive secondary school that serves its local community in the heart of Woodford. The school is a ten form entry school with 300 students in each year group.
The sixth form of 400 students continues to prosper with the majority of our students staying on after year 11. The teaching staff are all specialists in their separate areas and permanently contracted to the school. Year on year the school attracts a high number of first-choice applications for year 7 entry, with a record number of first choice places allocated this year. The school has a diverse curriculum that meets the needs of all the students and provides them with a pathway towards their chosen careers. The school is a happy, flourishing and mutually respectful place of learning.
The latest Ofsted report describes it as a place where students 'receive an excellent education' and where 'behaviour in and around the school is exceptional' . Government figures reveal that students at Woodbridge achieve beyond their expected performance levels.
Woodbridge is a school with a commitment to high standards. Our ethos is one of kindness, inclusion, respect and aiming for excellence. Our commitment to the success of every student is reinforced by the school's motto: ‘Pride in Achievement’.
Students at Woodbridge benefit from first-class facilities including an artificial grass pitch, outdoor basketball nets and table-tennis tables, a fitness studio, a refurbished sports hall, a new building with a performance theatre, specialist art, drama and music rooms, and a remodelled library.
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