Counselling Jobs
- Home
- -
-
Counselling Jobs
At London Young Counselling we offer paid counselling jobs for counsellors with experience working with CYP aged from 4-18. We recruit paid qualified counselling positions all year round and often offer a paid job to the volunteers that have completed their placement with us. In the role of a qualified paid counsellor you would need to be able to offer 1:1 counselling sessions with young people based on a school site during all term time weeks of the year.
LYC provide all of our counsellors with the necessary checks to be able to work in schools. You will have a designated counselling room on the school site where sessions can take place.
The job role is taken on a permanent basis and the counsellor must be able to commit to attending sessions all school term time weeks.
Counselling job description
-
Counsellors will be placed in a school for the days required.
-
There could be the opportunity to do different days on different sites.
-
The role is based on the school site where you will have an assigned confidential counselling room.
-
The counselling sessions run alongside the timetabled structure of the school day and will run at the same time each week.
-
Days will be to see a minimum of 4 clients.
-
You will work closely with the school safeguarding team.
-
The job may involve over-seeing trainee counsellors based on the school site.
How our recruitment process works
If you are interested in applying for a counsellor job with LYC please make sure:
-
You have a qualification in counselling and provide evidence in your application.
-
Make sure you are able to practice counselling hours with young people.
-
Be able to commit to all academic weeks in the school year.
-
Be able to provide a references from your tutor and/or your supervisor.
-
Be able to arrange your own 1:1 supervision.
Once you have checked the above, please complete an application form and we will be in touch with you to arrange an interview. If you are successful at interview, we will then proceed to do a reference DBS check. If you have any other questions about our counselling jobs please get in touch.
Frequently Asked Questions
Supervision is not provided. You will need to source your own 1:1 supervision and be prepared to share the details of that supervisor with London Young Counselling and the school you are working with.
This is completely dependant on the schools needs and can vary from 1 day to 5 days. It would be best to speak directly to London Young Counselling about what is available. There could be the potential to work in more than one school.
Yes, this job is for school time term only. Counsellors must be able to attend all academic weeks and only take holidays during school holidays.
Yes, London Young Counselling provide various CPD workshops throughout the year. These are listed on our website and all counsellors are welcome to join any training for free.
No, we started off in London but now we are based all over the country. Please contact us directly to discuss the locations we have available.