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Job Summary

Job Type
Student Support / Mentor
Contract Type
Full Time
Contract Term
Permanent
Start Date
October/November 2022
Salary
£23,350 - £ 24,895 Approx ,£27,741 to £29,577 (FTE)
Closing Date
02-Sep-2022

School Counsellor

Marshland High School

Cambridgeshire

Marshland High School are looking to appoint a suitably qualified School Counsellor with experience of working with, and supporting students with emotional and psychological issues. The successful candidate will work closely with our pastoral team to promote and develop a healthy attitude to supporting mental health awareness and emotional well-being within the school community.

Start date October/November 2022

37 Hours per week ( term time only 38 weeks)


Your main areas of responsibility will be to draw on a range of professional and clinical skills, techniques, therapies, and experience to provide a high-quality, evidence-informed counselling and psychotherapeutic service to students, aged between 11 to 16, experiencing a wide range of emotional and mental health difficulties.
The service you provide will aim to secure and promote the welfare, development and achievement of students as well as the education and understanding from the wider school community towards adolescent mental health and wellbeing.
You will ensure that safeguarding and the welfare and care of all children and young people is promoted.
The role would suit an empathetic, calm and reassuring natured person, with the capacity to work hard within our team. Someone who is authentic, visible and driven with the ambition to want our school to be a joyful and happy place to learn and dedicated to the needs of the individual.
We are a rural school set within the stunning Norfolk countryside with around 830 students. We pride ourselves on the excellent academic progress all our students make (typically performing within the top 20% of schools nationally). Our staff comment on the uniquely supportive family feeling there is to working at our school. You will find a respectful and caring community, eager to please.

Marshland High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This includes obtaining references and ensures compliance with the DBS process.

 

 

How to Apply

To apply please complete the application form (3 parts to be completed), see the application guidance notes for more information and email this to: recruitment@westnorfolkacademiestrust.co.uk
Alternatively post your application to the HR Department, West Norfolk Academies Trust, c/o Springwood High School, Queensway, King's Lynn, Norfolk, PE30 4AW.

Visits or an informal discussion are welcome following your application. To arrange, please call 01553 773393 or email recruitment@westnorfolkacademiestrust.co.uk.


Applications to be received by Friday 2nd September 2022 with interviews expected to take place W/C Monday 12th September
We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier if a viable field is met prior to the published closing date. Please send your application to be received asap as interviews will be held as soon as we have a viable field.

Closing Date for Applications: 02-Sep-2022

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Employer Information

Employer Type
Secondary schools
Headteacher
Mr C Jansen
LEA/Region
Cambridgeshire
NoR
777
Age Range
11-16
Address
School Road
West Walton
Wisbech
Postcode
PE14 7HA
Telephone
01945 584146
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Employer Details

Marshland High School

Success through learning

We are an inclusive school community, dedicated to the needs of the individual.   A community where we strive each day to promote and develop our core values of Respect, Responsibility, Kindness, Honesty and Perseverance laying the foundations for a lifetime of enjoyment and happiness.
 
Marshland is one of the highest achieving schools in West Norfolk and North Cambridgeshire.  We are committed to the pursuit of academic development and our school consistently achieves excellent GCSE outcomes for our students.  
 
We encourage all our students to embrace the multitude of extra-curricular opportunities we provide within music, the arts, sport and leadership, all focused on developing well-rounded young people.
 
Our unique school ethos enables us to develop a learning community environment where every young person feels happy, safe and valued, enabling them to achieve their best.
 
We are part of the West Norfolk Academies Trust whose aim is to challenge and support a small group of schools to provide an excellent education for the young people of West Norfolk.
 
The Trust works in a supportive partnership with Primary and Secondary schools with each school maintaining their unique identity and ethos.
 
The schools work together to ensure maximum benefit for all students through economies of scale and shared resources.
 
The Trusts clear strategic vision for the future is based around four key areas:
 
  • Maximising student achievement
  • Ensuring each student is engaged with the school
  • Ensuring our students have access to world class resources
  • Delivering outstanding teaching and learning
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