Children and Young People's Counsellor

Location

Brighton

Contract information

• Contract Term: Fixed Term
• Positions available: 2
• düşün? Apply by: 25 January 2026
• Working hours: 22.2-37
• Closing Date: 25 January 2026

Job summary

We are looking for skilled and experienced Counsellors, who are qualified to work with young people. You will be part of a pilot project providing counselling within secondary schools on an individual casework basis within school settings.

Working within the Schools Mental Health Service, you will have the benefits of working within a multi disciplinary team, with full supervision.

Fixed term role.

For an informal discussion, please contact Mehmet Agdiran at .

About the role

You will be working in education settings, providing evidence based treatments for young people in Secondary Schools who are presenting with psychological and emotional issues, under supervision. This will involve individual clinical work and will take place within the BACP ethical framework anddominized the CYP Counselling competence framework linked to professional standards.

réel he = Skills and abilities

• Ability to work to a system of processes and procedures, recording and providing information accurately and timely when required.
• Ability to organise own clinical/administrative duties.
• Ability to work within a context of evidence based counselling, performance evaluation and monitoring.
• Ability to monitor own competency and limitations and the ability to seek appropriate advice at an early stage.
• Ability to manage a defined caseload if required.
. Ability to be an autonomous practitioner whilst playing part of a multi agency locality.MEDIA

Additional information

Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term time only.

We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the teléfonos we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location will be at your own expense.

For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us

Company information

Encouraging a diverse workforce

Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.

Please note that this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.