School Counsellor

**Part Time / Maternity Cover / Required for April 2024**:
**Salary Grade**: Haringey Salary Scale SO1, points 23 -25

**Salary Range**: £35,577 - £36,567 FTE per annum pro rata

**Actual Salary: £19,635 -£20,182 per annum**

**Working Hours**: 21 hours per week between 8am - 4pm

**Contract**: Part Time (3 days a week, term time) Maternity Cover

Highgate Wood School is looking to recruit a School Counsellor on a part time basis for a maternity cover, working three days per week providing a counselling service to our students and staff.

The role will provide counselling on an individual basis, drop-in sessions, group sessions and will be pro-active in the school’s commitment to student and staff wellbeing.

We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and knowledgeable Counsellor, to be a part of our inclusion team, working with a caseload of students with a wide range of social, emotional, and mental health needs. The role is demanding and challenging, but very rewarding. It will also involve developing training initiatives for staff to promote the counselling services within the school and events regarding emotional health and wellbeing for students and staff.
- The ability to develop positive and professional relationships with all stakeholders
- Good time management and the ability to source initiatives to aid outcomes
- Hold a professional diploma in Counselling and registered with the UKCP or accredited by BACP
- Have knowledge of working in a school environment or similar

We can offer:

- A friendly work environment and a supportive leadership team
- Pension, Cycle scheme, Season ticket loan, Tech scheme, EAP
- Continuous CPD
- Happy and confident children who enjoy being at school
- A committed Governing Body and an inspirational Headteacher

**Interview date**:W/C 26th February 2024**

**How to apply**:

- Please note that CVs are not accepted in line with Safer Recruitment practices.

Highgate Wood School is a mixed comprehensive school providing secondary education.

**School Aims**

We want everyone to feel welcome, safe and secure in the school and believe that each of us has a valuable contribution to make to our community and its continued success. We firmly believe that Everyone Matters, Everyone Achieves. Our core values are embodied in the 4Cs - Courtesy, Consideration, Cooperation, and Contribution, the principles of Respect and Honesty and the commitment to encouraging Perseverance and Hard Work.

It is through these values that we bring to life our mission statement: "To inspire our students to be confident and open-minded through exceptional teaching in a caring school community”

**Ethos and values**

Our established values of Courtesy, Consideration, Contribution and Cooperation (the 4Cs), underpin the school’s behaviour ethos and what we call the Highgate Wood Way.

Our school motto is Everyone Matters, Everyone Achieves and this ensures that we take an approach that values every student as an individual, with a wide range of curricular and extra-curricular opportunities enabling talent and creativity to be identified and nurtured.

The school seeks to create an ethos in which all students can...
- Achieve their full potential, including the highest standards of academic achievement.
- Feel valued and value others.
- Become confident, self-reliant and caring members of society.
- Understand themselves and develop a critical awareness of the world in which they live.
- Work in a learning environment in which they feel safe and secure.
- Make maximum use of the technology available to assist learning.
- Have pride in their environment, work hard, behave respectfully and succeed.

We also aim to provide students with an environment in which they are able to feel secure and confident, and which is conducive to study and learning. Through a clear and concise set of students’ rights and responsibilities we expect that each of our students understands the importance of self-discipline, a consideration for others and the care of the school environment.

We place great emphasis on high standards of both work and behaviour from all our students. The support and co-operation of parents is invaluable in achieving these aims.

**Ofsted Report**

We are delighted our Ofsted report (November 2021) confirmed that Highgate Wood School continues to be good, and improving. The inspectors confirmed our governors and leaders know the school well and this accurate self-evaluation is allowing us to raise standards quickly.

They told us teaching is good and improving, as are behaviour and attendance. The inspecting team were impressed with the effective feedback teachers provide to students that helps them move ahead with their learning; with our work to secure higher standards, especially in the sixth form and with the way our teachers plan lessons well, stretching the most able and targeting our students’ needs with skilful questioning and well-chosen activities.

They noted that as a resu