Children and Young Peoples' Counsellor

• Term Time Schools Counsellor
• 1 day per week

Paid throughout the year

Application Deadline 1/7/23

9.00am - 3.30pm

Rookie Minds is part of Rookie Rockstars, a registered Scottish Young Persons Mental Health and Well-being charity. Our mental health counselling service 'Rookie Minds', offers counselling to children within a school setting.

Rookie Minds is seeking to recruit an exceptional, qualified counsellor with a minimum of 1 years experience working with children, ideally within a school environment.

The successful applicant will be required to deliver counselling sessions within primary schools.

Currently we are seeking an experienced counsellor to work 1 day per week (during term time) in a primary school.

There is scope for this to increase over time.

We aim to help children and young people develop the tools necessary to navigate through a range of difficult and complex experiences.

An understanding of the impact mental health has on attainment in education is fundamental.

Duties and Key Responsibilities

• Provide onetoone counselling sessions to school aged children and young people
• Carry out counselling sessions for small groups of children, likely to be of upper primary school age
• Carry out assessment interviews with new referrals and evaluate appropriate counselling methods
• Work closely with Senior Leadership teams and Designated Safeguarding Leads within the school
• Liaise with parents and carers where appropriate
• Develop and maintain adequate records of clinical work
• Fulfil professional supervision requirements
• Contribute to the evaluation of the service by using a range of clinical wellbeing, evaluation and measurement tools
• Comply with all policies, procedures and service standards
• Undertake relevant training to continue professional development
• Keep informed of needs and issues that affect young people
• Build healthy relationships with parents and school staff, as well as outside agencies and referral organisations
• Attend regular meetings with the Line Manager and provide updates on services provided
• Attend and contribute to team meetings

Qualities/Skills:

• Excellent and proven organisational and communication skills (written and verbal)
• Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships
• Ability to manage caseloads
• Ability to work on own initiative and be selfmotivated
• Demonstrate a sound sense of personal integrity and ethics
• Collaborative working style and strong work ethic
• PVG scheme member
• Membership of an appropriate counselling organisation (BABCP, COSCA, PTUK or similar)

Job Type:
Part-time

Part-time hours: 6 per week

Salary:
£4,992.00 per year

Schedule:

• No weekends

Work Location:
In person

Expected start date: 14/08/2023

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