Overview
Interviews for this role will be held on 20/10/2025
Our teams of counsellors work holistically to provide counselling to children in schools, in our centres and online. We support children and young people who are experiences a range of difficulties such as exclusion, behavioural challenges, self-harm, anxiety and depression. We also offer flexible parenting programmes that aim to support, mentor, and equip parents to manage their family life and relationships better.
About the role
As a children’s sessional counsellor you will play a crucial role in providing therapeutic intervention and psychoeducation to children and young people in schools in the Surrey area. You will manage your caseload, conduct assessments and attend meetings. You will maintain accurate and confidential records of counselling sessions and interventions whilst consulting with pastoral teams in schools, parents/care givers and statutory organisations. You need to be fully insured, a member of a relevant professional body, hold a DBS or be part of the update service. Please note that this position is on a self-employed basis.
About you
You are obviously a dedicated, caring, compassionate and self-motivated counsellor who is looking for their ideal role with an employer that lives their values, that employer is Spurgeons. If you are a qualified children’s counselling, you are a registered member of a professional body outline in the job description and you have at least 100 hours experience of counselling children and 100 hours counselling adults, we want to hear from you. Your personable, creative and empathetic nature enables you to engage and connect with children and young people and your commitment to them demonstrates your dependability which is vital for their wellbeing. Your interpersonal skills allow you to work confidently and in an organised manner, you are able to communicate effectively with all and your fair mindedness sees you working in a collaborative manner to ensure you everyone’s opinion is valued. As an independent continuous learner, you consistently engage with CPD in line you’re your professional bodies recommendations and you motivate all to be the best version of themselves.
The Company
Spurgeons is one of the UK's leading children's charities, firmly supported by Christian beliefs and values, helping to support vulnerable children and their families through delivering projects to support children, young people, their families, and communities to find long-lasting solutions to the challenges they face.
We create family hubs where we’re needed most, providing support with mental health, special educational needs, domestic abuse and all of family life’s challenges. We work through children and family centres, churches, schools and prisons. Putting children first in everything.
The Benefits
* Continuous professional development
* In house learning platform
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Salary sacrifice pension with employers contribution of up to 7%
* Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
* BHFS Health Cash Plan
* Life assurance 2 times annual salary
* Enhanced annual leave
* Additional paid time off at Christmas
* Flu vouchers
* Eye test reclaim
If you want to find out more about working at Spurgeons please visit our website.
We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and young people we serve. This post is subject to necessary safeguarding checks including an appropriate level DBS Disclosure.
Spurgeons is a Living Wage Employer.
We actively encourage applications from a broad and deep range of backgrounds and experiences. We are a Disability Confident Employer.
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