School Counsellor Required: Poole, Dorset

WhereToTalk; Poole; Hybrid; GBP 34,000 - 41,000; Part time

Job summary

The Lion Works School in Poole, Dorset, is seeking a School Counsellor to provide a professional and confidential counselling service to students aged 11-16, supporting their emotional wellbeing, mental health and personal development.

You will work with colleagues across the school to help students overcome barriers to learning, develop resilience and coping strategies, and achieve positive educational outcomes. The role is permanent and part-time (0.8 therapy hours per week) during term time.

Responsibilities

• Provide a professional and confidential counselling service to students aged 11-16, supporting their emotional wellbeing, mental health and personal development.
• Working closely with colleagues across the school, the counsellor will help students to overcome barriers to learning, develop resilience and coping strategies and achieve positive educational outcomes.

Job description

School Counsellor Required: Poole, Dorset

School Counsellor Required: Poole, Dorset

The Lion Works School

Therapy Hours per week 0.8

Weeks per year Term time

Contract type Permanent

Salary FTE £37,500

Closing Date 30th November 2026

The Lion Works School is a specialist setting that meets the needs of secondary age students who are all individuals, have a range of interests, have talents and also happen to have a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Condition or a need which presents similarly.

The successful candidate will provide a professional and confidential counselling service to students aged 11-16, supporting their emotional wellbeing, mental health and personal development.

Working closely with colleagues across the school, the school counsellor will help students to overcome barriers to learning develop resilience and coping strategies and achieve positive educational outcomes.

The School Counsellor will provide a professional and confidential counselling service to students aged 11-16, supporting their emotional wellbeing, mental health and personal development. Working closely with colleagues across the school, the school counsellor will help students to overcome barriers to learning develop resilience and coping strategies and achieve positive educational outcomes.