Salary:                  £40 per hour

Job type:             Service agreement for up to 20 weeks until 30 September 2022

Hours:                 10-20 hours per week, depending upon contractor availability

The post is for up to 20 weeks of work, starting from whichever start date is agreed in early 2022 to 30 September 2022.

St John’s College wishes to appoint a temporary College Counsellor via a service agreement with the skills, experience, and enthusiasm to work with the College Nurse and others members of the Welfare team to provide an effective and confidential counselling service for the junior members (undergraduates and postgraduates) of the College.

The College Counsellor will promote the welfare of all undergraduate and postgraduate students of St John’s College by offering individual assessment, counselling sessions and group work to junior members identified and referred by the College Nurse. The role will also include the provision of advice and assistance to the College Nurse, Health and Wellbeing Nurse, Senior Tutor, Tutors, Head Porter and Chaplain to support our students.

The successful candidate will have a minimum qualification of a Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling or Psychology and will hold BACP accreditation or UKCP registration.  You will have experience of counselling in a similar institutional setting, working with young adults and working as part of a team.  You will also have expertise in the assessment of mental health needs and the assessment of risk, with good knowledge of appropriate referral pathways; and thorough knowledge of the Ethical Framework of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.  In addition, you should have strong verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills; and should be computer competent, in particular in the use of Microsoft Office with a willingness and ability to become proficient in the use of the College’s Health database.

Any offer to a successful candidate will be conditional upon a satisfactory Enhanced DBS check.

As we wish to appoint a College Counsellor via a service agreement model, should the appointee prove unable to provide the service for a period of time, we would accept the provision of the service by a suitably qualified person of their recommendation in their stead.

For an application form and the draft service agreement, please click on the links below, email senior.tutor@joh.cam.ac.uk or telephone 01223 338658.

The closing date for the receipt of completed applications is noon on Tuesday 1 February 2022.  

In applying for this role, you will provide personal data which the College will process in accordance with its data protection obligations and its Data Protection Policy.  Please see attached for a copy of our Data Protection Statement for further information about how we process your personal data.