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Croydon Drop In (CDI) are seeking a highly motivated and enthusiastic Qualified Volunteer Counsellor to work within our award-winning Voluntary Sector services. The post-holder will work within our safeguarding protocols to provide safe interventions for children and young people using evidence-based methodologies. The post holder will safely work with people across different cultural backgrounds and ages and will be committed to equality, diversity and inclusion.
Counselling is delivered by experienced qualified contracted counsellors, and our team is supported by qualified volunteer counsellors who wish to give back to the community, require a stepping stone to a paid counselling role or are independently working toward increasing their client contact hours or are working toward their accreditation.
To meet the standard criteria you will:
<ul>
<li>Ba a graduate or at post graduate level in counselling or have completed a level 4 Diploma or equivalent in Therapeutic Counselling</li>
<li>Be a Registered Member or an Accredited Member of the BACP membership or equivalent with a professional standards authority (e.g. UKCP, HPC)</li>
<li>Have two years minimum duration of personal counselling or psychotherapy.</li>
<li>Commit to delivering 4 hours counselling (1 evening) per week to young people of the service</li>
<li>Have 1 years’ experience of delivering counselling in a counselling agency or similar setting</li>
</ul>
If you are interesting in becoming a Qualified Volunteer Counsellor within the Community Counselling Team please&nbsp;<a href="https://croydondropin.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Volunteer-Counsellor-June-25.pdf" target="_blank">click here</a>&nbsp;for full details before applying. For an informal discussion please call John Hylton 07519 201 281 (<a href="mailto:johnhylton@croydondropin.org.uk" target="_blank">johnhylton@croydondropin.org.uk</a>)

Croydon Drop In

Croydon Drop In (CDI)

Qualified Volunteer Counsellor

<h4>Overview</h4>
Location Upper Norwood and Lower Croydon, CR0 1RF
Contract type 13 hours per week
Salary £11,736.27 Part Time Salary, (£31,597.65 FTE)
Start date Thursday 30th October 2025
Closing date for applications Monday 6th October 2025 at 9am

Community Counsellor

<h4>Overview</h4>
Location London Borough of Croydon and Kings College London
Contract type&nbsp; Fixed Term Contract – 12 months
Salary £36,055
Start date 19th January 2026
Closing date for applications 20th October 2025 at 5pm

Senior Wellbeing Practitioner (SWP) Trainee

Children and Young People’s Psychological Trainings Programme (CYP-PT) Parent Module Trainee

<h4>Overview</h4>
Location London Borough of Croydon and Kings College London
Contract type&nbsp; Fixed Term Contract – 12 months, 21 hours per week
Salary Unremunerated – placement opportunity
Start date 19th January 2026
Closing date for applications 20th October 2025 at 5pm

Systemic Family Practice (SFP) Supervisor Trainee

Croydon Drop In (CDI) are seeking a highly motivated and enthusiastic Student Volunteer Counsellors on Placement to work within our award-winning Voluntary Sector services. The post-holder will work within our safeguarding protocols to provide safe interventions for children and young people using evidence-based methodologies. The post holder will safely work with people across different cultural backgrounds and ages and will be committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. 
Our team is supported by student practitioners completing their final year of their practitioner studies.
Please note:
Counselling training providers usually require you to obtain a certain amount of client contact hours with adults i.e. 18 years plus, therefore it’s important to note that the majority of clients accessing our CDI counselling services are under 18 years of age. As a student placement provider, CDI makes for an ideal 2nd placement that will ensure you have adequate young people contact hours, largely under 18 years of age, providing you with the learning experiences you need to meet the competency requirements of your training course and provider. It is important to check with your training provider, the cap on the number of under 18 years of age clients permitted for your course.
If you are interesting in becoming a student volunteer counsellors on placement within the Community Counselling Team please&nbsp;<a href="https://croydondropin.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Volunteer-Counsellor-June-25.pdf" target="_blank">click here</a>&nbsp;for full details before applying. For an informal discussion please call John Hylton 07519 201 281 (<a href="mailto:johnhylton@croydondropin.org.uk" target="_blank">johnhylton@croydondropin.org.uk</a>)

Student Volunteer Counsellor on Placement

<h4>Overview</h4>
Location London Borough of Croydon
Contract type&nbsp; Fixed Term Contract – 12 months
Salary £36,055
Start date 19th January 2026
Closing date for applications 20th October 2025 at 5pm

Children and Young People’s Psychological Trainings Programme (CYP – PT), Systemic Family Practice (SFP) Trainee

LocationLondon South Thames

	PositionLearning and Practice (L&amp;P)

	Advertising Salary£6,363 pro rata (from FTE of £31,815 p.a) 

	Vacancy TypePermanent

	Careers Site Advertising End Date13 Oct 2025

	HoursHours Per Week:7

	Working PatternThursday

	School Website URL<a href="https://evelyngraceacademy.org/" target="_blank">https://evelyngraceacademy.org/</a>
 
	 

 

 
		<h2>About The Role</h2>
	
		
			
Together we can change children’s lives. At Place2Be, we believe every child should have easy access to mental health support whenever they need it. We create a safe place in schools where children and young people can open up without pressure or stigma. Allowing our highly skilled and diverse counsellors to reach children, young people and their families who need us.
Qualified, creative and ambitious. Sound like you? As a level 4 qualified therapist / counsellor, you’ll not only work in one to one situations with young people providing clinical assessments and interventions, you’ll also engage in the wider school community to strengthen skills, and promote understanding of child mental health and the importance of early intervention. 
As part of a huge community across the United Kingdom you’ll have opportunities to bring your fresh thinking and ideas to the table to help us shape our programmes for today and tomorrow. You’ll have access to an enormous range of training and development and a pathway to develop and grow your career. 
For a career with purpose, this is your place.
The school have a large Spanish speaking community and we are looking for a counsellor that can deliver interventions in Spanish.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Recruitment Process
 As part of your application you will need to answer some shortlisting questions. Please answer these as fully as you can, we recommend using the STAR model. Situation, Task, Action Result.&nbsp;Your answers will be used in the shortlisting process.
Closing date for applications: Midnight on 13/10/2025
Interview date:16/10/2025

Our Benefits
When you work at Place2Be –whether that's in a school, supporting families, providing clinical supervision, or in IT, Finance, or Fundraising –every role can make the difference to a young person.
To achieve this, we ask that you bring your best self to your role and our commitment to you, is to welcome you into our community, and help you progress. Because we know that you being at your best, means the best outcomes for the children we support. Here’s just a few things we have on offer:
<ul>
 <li>Annual Leave that increases with service</li>
 <li>Comprehensive learning and development to enable you to progress your career</li>
 <li>5% contributory pension scheme</li>
 <li>Life assurance of four times your annual salary</li>
 <li>A comprehensive employee assistance programme</li>
 <li>Mobile Phone Discounts (EE network)</li>
 <li>Wellbeing days to allow you some ‘you’ time</li>
 <li>Christmas holidays closure period in addition to your annual leave</li>
</ul>
We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith or disability.&nbsp;We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic candidates and disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented within our organisation.
We are proud to be a disability confident employer and will ask you during your application If you wish to be considered for a guaranteed interview under the disability confident scheme. Under the scheme we commit to offering an interview to disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria as outlined in the job role.
If you have any questions about the scheme, or require any adjustments to help you complete an application then please contact the recruitment team on 020 7923 5050 or email&nbsp;<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#b3d9dcd1c0f3c3dfd2d0d681d1d69ddcc1d49dc6d8">[email&nbsp;protected]</a>
We recognise that AI is becoming part of daily life and you may want to use it to help you format your CV, create responses to application questions or even help you prepare responses. AI can be a powerful enabler and we are open to you using it to apply for roles with us, but we ask you to ensure anything you submit truly represents your capabilities and viewpoint. We value honesty, integrity and creativity and want to understand what&nbsp;you&nbsp;will uniquely bring to our team.&nbsp;
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
		
	
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Place2Be

Place2Be Counsellor, (Spanish Speaking), Ark Evelyn Grace Academy

We are looking for an experienced and passionate Trainee Single Discipline Advocate – (Triage RPR) to work as part of our Camden and Islington Advocacy Team.Imagine being part of an organisation whose common purpose is to help those who are severely impacted by mental illness. We believe that everyone should be treated with respect and dignity – and that’s why equity is one of our core values.&nbsp;We draw on the expertise, unique perspectives and lived experience of our people – regardless of who they are or their background – to help us become inclusive and anti-racist employer, campaigning organisation and service provider that reflect the diverse communities we support as a mental health charity.Camden and Islington Integrated service provides a range of specialist advocacy services to adults across a range of health and social care needs.&nbsp; We provide statutory and non-statutory advocacy support, which may be instructed or non-instructed in secure units, hospitals, care settings or in the communityHow you will make a differenceAs an unqualified, inexperienced Trainee Single Discipline Advocate (Triage paid RPR), you will be required to enrol on the Level 4 Independent Advocacy Practice qualification and complete the course within a set timescale, using protected study time to focus on this. You will shadow experienced team members and then be observed providing support to those who are eligible for our services until you are able to pick up a caseload of your own. Although your focus will be providing paid RPR support, you will receive training across the different remits of advocacy, instructed and non-instructed advocacy and safeguarding and be supported to develop a thorough understanding of the role and boundaries of advocacy.The role involves making a triage assessment for people who have been deprived of their liberty, developing the skills to empower the person to have a say in their situation, to understand their rights and any options open to them and challenging capacity assessments where you feel they are incorrect. When the person cannot communicate their views to you, you will ensure that their unique preferences and views are taken into consideration in any decisions made by care providers.Diversity, Equity, Inclusion&nbsp;Diversity is important to us and we appreciate difference through difference, inclusiveness and belonging. It gives us a deeper understanding of the world, our society and the diverse communities we’re working with. By including everyone, we are able to draw on the unique experiences and expertise of our people to help shape and enrich our workplace and improve our services. One way we are doing is through our valued staff networks which play a critical and highly valued role in keeping us focused on creating a diverse, inclusive and engaged employer.  We recognise and support staff networks and support groups for our ethnically diverse and LGBTQIA+ colleagues. We are also proud to have been awarded Disability Confident Employer status and are a signatory to the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter.&nbsp;We aim for our workforce to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve; for those who work for us to feel heard, valued and feel they belong; and for our work to help tackle wider mental health inequalities. We therefore actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including applicants with lived experience of mental illness, those who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer or Questioning, Intersex, Asexual and any other gender identity not expressed here (LGBTQIA+); people who are neurodiverse, have a health condition, or a disability or hidden disability and people from an ethnically diverse background&nbsp;- regardless of your age, religious or spiritual belief, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, political view or socio-economic status.Becoming a truly anti-racist organisation&nbsp;We have an ambition of become a truly anti-racist employer, campaigning organisation and service provider - and in our efforts to influence policy and wider societal factors impacting on mental health set out in our <a href="https://www.rethink.org/aboutus/who-we-are/becoming-an-anti-racist-organisation/anti-racism-statement/" target="_blank">anti-racist statement</a> . We have designed a multi-year anti-racist programme of work contained in our <a href="https://indd.adobe.com/view/0630dbfe-57ad-47ef-a5be-a374ab206e3c" target="_blank">Race Equality Action Plan</a> which demonstrates our intention to hold ourselves accountable and be judged on our progress on becoming a truly anti-racist organisation. You can read more about our progress <a href="https://www.rethink.org/aboutus/who-we-are/becoming-an-anti-racist-organisation/" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;If you have any questions about the position, please contact -&nbsp;<a href="mailto:recruitment@rethink.org" target="_blank">recruitment@rethink.org</a>

Rethink Mental Illness

Trainee Single Discipline Advocate RPR Triage

<h2>Job overview</h2> Thank you for your interest in the post of School Counsellor at Haberdashers’ Borough Academy. We are a part of a Trust of nine schools, all based in South East London. Whilst each of our schools maintains its individuality, we share a common mission: to ensure that every single child and young person in our care is successful at school so that they can flourish and be successful in their lives. We are steadfast in our continuing commitment to the trust’s statement of intent on Equality, Inclusion and Diversity and believe all our young people deserve to receive an excellent education, equitable opportunities and a value-added experience regardless of their background. We are proud of the diversity of our community and strive to ensure this is reflected in every aspect of school life. We currently have an exciting opportunity for an School Counsellor at our secondary, co-educational 11-18 school located on Southwark Bridge Road, on the former site of Southwark Fire Station. The School Counsellor plays a vital role in supporting the wellbeing, mental health, and inclusion of students at Haberdashers’ Borough Academy. Working at the heart of the pastoral team, the counsellor provides early intervention for pupils experiencing mild to moderate mental health challenges, including anxiety, depression, and behavioural difficulties. Through one-to-one and group sessions, they help students develop coping strategies, emotional resilience, and confidence. The role also involves close collaboration with safeguarding, SEND, welfare, and attendance teams to identify students in need and coordinate appropriate support. The counsellor contributes to safeguarding reports, attends multi-agency meetings, and leads home visits for students with persistent absence, ensuring no child is left behind. This is a deeply impactful position, central to the Academy’s commitment to nurturing kind, resilient, and aspirational young people in a safe and inclusive environment. Equality and Diversity: We recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce. We are committed to eradicating discrimination in the workplace, becoming an employer of choice, for all staff to believe that they have a voice and be empowered to make a difference. Safeguarding We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. This post falls within the scope of regulated activity. Appointment is subject to an enhanced DBS with list checks (and other relevant checks.) It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity with children.

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