Counselling Tutor - Sessional

Bexley is an outer London Borough with the best of both worlds located between the hustle and bustle of London and the Garden of England Kent. Within the borough we have award winning parks open spaces and listed heritage sites.

The Learning & Enterprise College Bexley is a vibrant financially secure adult education institution responsible for delivering high quality outcomes for students residents and employers while contributing to the strategic objectives laid out in Bexley Councils corporate priorities for adult learning employment and wellbeing.

We are looking for tutors to support our growing counselling curriculum offer. LECB offer a range of CPCAB accredited courses up to Level 4.

You must also meet the following requirements to support delivery of CPCAB qualifications up to Level 4:

• 420 hours therapeutic counselling qualification at level 4 or above e.g. TCL4
• Engage in 10 hours of personal therapy
• Member of a professional association for counselling or psychotherapy
• 30 hours per year CPD activities
• Current supervised counselling practice with a minimum of 6 months postqualifying practice experience
• Teaching qualification or be willing to work towards one (minimum Level 3 Award in Education and Training)
• A minimum of one years experience of teaching and assessing at level 2 and 3 or above.
• A minimum of level 2 in English maths and ICT or equivalent (maths and English screening tests will be completed at interview).

We will offer you in return a package that includes a competitive salary an excellent pension scheme and generous annual leave plus bank holidays. For more information on the benefits package on offer please refer to the Candidate Information document attached.

For the full list of essential and desirable criteria for this role then please refer to the Person Specification within the Job Description attached.

Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)

We reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date.

This authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

This post is considered by the authority to be a customerfacing position; as such it falls within scope of the Code of Practice on English language requirement for public sector workers. The council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the JD/Person Specification. These will be applied during the recruitment/selection and probationary stages.

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Additional Information

As a disability confident employer Bexley welcomes applications from people with all disabilities including hidden disabilities and mental health conditions. We will interview any disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria. If you require reasonable adjustments to be made to any part of the recruitment process due to your disability please contact us