Counselling Coordinator - Summit Learning Trust

Join our friendly, thriving and supportive team here at Solihull Sixth Form College. We aspire to be outstanding professionally and personally, taking time to invest in everything we do, to develop transformative life chances for all of our learners and to stretch their potential to the full.

Solihull Sixth Form College is a large, culturally diverse specialist in A Levels and Level 3 BTEC qualifications, and part of the Summit Learning Trust.

The successful applicant will coordinate the college’s student counselling service which provides a professional and confidential counselling service to students, promoting their emotional health and wellbeing and building their resilience to help them cope with the difficulties they face. You will also take the role of counsellor working with your own caseload of students and have BACP membership or affiliation to another recognised professional counselling body such as UKCP, and a Level 5 Diploma or equivalent in Counselling.

You will have previous experience in delivering a face to face counselling/therapy service for individuals or groups, ideally with under 18s in a post 16 setting. You will be able to work independently, flexibly and prioritise your workload and have good organisational and communication skills. You will have experience coordinating counselling or wellbeing services, including managing schedules.

Why work for us?

We offer a range of wellbeing and work-life balance benefits to recognise and reward the essential contributions our colleagues make to our success and growth.

These include access to:

• employee assistance programme

• high quality training and support in and across academies enabling career progression

• wellbeing advocates

• lifestyle benefits and discount schemes, including gym discounts and cycle to work scheme

• health protection scheme alongside flu jab and eyecare vouchers

• generous employer pension schemes

How to apply:

Please visit our website

Please note we do not accept CV’s.

Interviews will take place on Thursday 27 March 2025.

We positively welcome applications from all sections of the community. Summit Learning Trust is proud to be an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender reassignment, age, disability, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy/maternity or race.