Here4You School-Based Counsellor
Job Title: Here4You School-Based Counsellor
Location: West London - Ealing and Hillingdon
Team: Here4You
Salary: £34.49 per hour
Contract type: Fixed term (Academic Year)
Hours per week: Varies by school
Working pattern: Term-time/Academic year
Join our Here4You School-Based counselling service – and really make a difference
About Here4You
Here4You is Metanoia Institute’s school-based counselling service, which provides a high quality, professional counselling service to young people in London secondary schools and colleges. All counsellors are qualified and members of a professional body.
About Metanoia
Metanoia Institute has provided high-quality training in psychological therapies since 1984. Our offerings include part-time, university-validated undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Counselling, Psychotherapy, and Counselling Psychology. We also offer a unique NHS-funded programme in Psychotherapeutic Counselling, specialised programmes in Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes, Adolescent and Schools Counselling, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education. Our Continuing Professional Development (CPD) courses further support professionals in enhancing their skills and staying up to date with the latest developments in the field.
About this role
You’ll work with pastoral and other teams at your assigned school, which we expect to be in Hillingdon with an additional opportunity in Ealing. You’ll contribute to the
development of the school-based service in this setting alongside the H4Y Schools Counselling Liaison Officer to enable students to enhance their psychological health and personal effectiveness, empowering them to optimise their school/college involvement, and personal development.
This will typically be up to two days, five hours a day, term time, in Hillingdon with additional ad-hoc hours in Ealing. You’d agree with your manager your expected working hours, and these would be paid on a zero-hours basis.
What you'll need
We're looking for someone with...
- A professional qualification as a counsellor, counselling psychologist or psychotherapist from a UK university or equivalent
- Knowledge and understanding of issues relating to safeguarding children and young people.
- Demonstrable experience of working with children and young people in a mental health setting.
- Ability to work independently as a professional and to liaise appropriately with a variety of different professionals within education and mental health.
- Ability to connect empathically with young people and create a safe environment for exploration.
Recruitment Process
Please read through the following:
If you feel you have all the necessary experience, skills and align with our values and mission, applying using our Here4You School-Based Counsellor Application Form.
Click here to start your application
The hiring manager will then assess what you’ve written against the job role and person specification requirements, and you’ll be advised if you’ve been invited to the next stage of the process.
The hiring manager will then assess what you’ve written against the job role and person specification requirements, and you’ll be advised if you’ve been invited to the next stage of the process.
Closing date
Please apply by 23:59 on 16 August 2026
Indicative timeline
Interviews are currently scheduled for week commencing 24 August 2026
Commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging
As an organisation founded with social justice at its core, we welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith or disability. We believe that when we work together, we can enable change and make things happen, and we do this by encouraging all our colleagues to be their true self in the workplace. We learn from each other to create an inclusive organisation.
Final considerations
As a UK based Institute all our roles are based within the UK, so you’ll need to have the right to work in the UK, and be able to provide proof, unfortunately we’re unable to offer any visa sponsorship.
We know that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming part of daily life and you may want to use it to help you format your application. While AI can be a powerful enabler, and we’re open to you using it to apply for roles with us, 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 you’ll uniquely bring to our team.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, we’d encourage you to submit your application as early as possible.