Job reference 243311 Date posted 11/06/2025 Application closing date 23/06/2025 Location Leeds Salary £32,301 (FTE), £14,154.77 (term-time, pro-rata) Package Contractual hours 18.5 Basis Part time Job category/type Part time, Permanent, Term time Job Specification and Supporting Information Guidance Notes.docx Application form and values & Recruitment monitoring.docx Counsellor Play Therapist - PS - Jun 25.docx Counsellor Play Therapist - JD - Jun 25.docx Job description
The Counsellor / Play Therapist role is an exciting opportunity for a qualified and experienced therapist to be part of a creative and supportive team delivering therapeutic interventions for children working across primary and secondary school settings.
The role involves providing short term, evidence-based therapeutic interventions for children referred for support through schools and clusters.
At GIPSIL our Counselling Team and Wellbeing Team work side by side under Community Health and Prevention, working together across schools and communities. The successful applicant will be one of 12 counsellors and will benefit from our team culture, supported by an experienced Counselling Manager and Senior Counsellor.
To support and promote team work, we offer a work space within our Community Health and Prevention Office. Here, we hold a library of resources to support your learning and development and have access to various rooms to enable the teams to come together for meetings, training and clinical supervisions regularly.
It’s also really important to GIPSIL that we have a good working relationship with every school and you feel supported in your role, therefore we work closely with the clusters and individual schools to ensure you are embedded with the school team, everyone understands your role with school and that you have the appropriate space and technology within the school setting.
We cover BACP membership costs, provide regular training around specialist areas and offer additional benefits such as access to Simply Health providing a range of physical and mental health support from Counselling to Physiotherapy.
The Benefits
* Joining an established team of Counsellors/ Play therapists / Art Therapists
* You’ll benefit from free training and CPD opportunities
* You’ll receive regular Line Management supervision and support to access clinical supervision
* We cover BACP membership costs
* A receive new DBS through GIPSIL
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
To apply for this role please contact HR@Gipsil.org.uk to request an application pack. Applications should be emailed to hr@gipsil.org.uk before the closing deadline.
To arrange an informal conversation about this role please contact Hannah Railton via email; Hannah.Railton@gipsil.org.uk
Please note that GIPSIL will not accept CVs. No agencies.
GIPSIL is committed to all aspects of safeguarding. We believe that all children and adults, who are at risk of harm, have the right to be protected from abuse. GIPSIL aims to ensure that all staff and voluntary workers who seek work at GIPSIL and who have access to children and adults are safe to do so.
GIPSIL is a community based organisation providing housing, counselling, advice and support to young and vulnerable people at risk in Leeds.
As an organisation we are committed to the following principles in recruitment to ensure we can effectively achieve our aim of providing equal opportunitiesand safer recruitment;
* We recruit for potential, not perfection
* We are avalues basedrecruiter
* We value lived experience as a demonstration of capability for a role
* We only utilise truly “essential” criteria in recruitment
* We are committed to safer recruitment practice
When we refer toValueswe are talking about our organisational Values, found here: Who we are - Gipsil
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