JOB TITLE: Counsellor/Psychotherapist
LOCATION: Windsor, Berkshire
REPORTING TO: Head of Therapy
FORMAT: Part-time (2-3 days per week, term time), pay advertised at full time equivalent. Pay is pro rata.
INTRODUCTION
The Green Room Foundation is a charity dedicated to helping young people aged 11 to 19 years who have struggled in mainstream education. All of our students hold an EHCP (Education, Health and Care Plan), primarily for neurodivergent profiles (including Autism, ADHD, and PDA) and associated Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) needs. Our aim is to support our students to develop their full potential. We do this in three unique alternative education environments - on a farm, a town house, and a working pub, each designed to support students on every step of their educational journey.
We are growing our therapy team and are looking for a counsellor or creative psychotherapist who has excellent relational skills to join us in Windsor. This is an opportunity to become a member of an organisation that places a premium on staff wellbeing: when our team feels good, our students benefit, and benefitting our students is our collective aim.
INTENT/PURPOSE OF THE ROLE:
We believe that feeling safe and emotionally regulated comes before learning.
The purpose of this role is to provide skilled clinical intervention and therapeutic containment for students facing complex social, emotional, and mental health challenges.
Operating within our alternative education provision, you won’t just be sitting in a traditional therapy room. Instead, you will deliver flexible, neurodiversity-affirming interventions that meet student’s unique needs. You will have the freedom to adapt your environment to suit them - whether that’s talking while walking outside, using play, or connecting in a more creative, active space.
You will manage a clinical caseload providing individual therapy to students. There will also be opportunity to work with adults and facilitate parent/carer therapeutic support groups across the foundation.
IMPACT
Every day in alternative provision is different. The ideal candidate will utilise a flexible approach, be well organised, possess a creative outlook and adapt their therapeutic interventions to changing student needs.
Through your daily collaboration with our staff, you will help the team look through a therapeutic lens to better understand and support our students.
Ultimately, success in this role will be a felt thing. It will be measured by the quiet transformations in our young people and the sense of emotional safety and belonging shared by our entire community.
IMPLEMENTATION AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Key Responsibilities
- Therapeutic Delivery: Deliver flexible 1:1 short term and long term therapeutic interventions tailored to students needs (incorporating play, creative arts, drama therapies and somatic/body-based regulation where appropriate). Manage caseload and keep service notes.
- Collaboration and Training: Liaise with the school team to advise on trauma-informed strategies, emotional regulation plans and offer training to staff and parents and carers.
Requirements
- Essential skills - Creative adaptability, non judgemental stance, playfulness, ability to read non verbal and verbal cues.
- Essential - A Minimum Level 5 Diploma in Counselling, or a specialised child/adolescent/creative therapeutic qualification (e.g. Dramatherapist, Art Psychotherapist)
- Essential - Active registration with BACP, HCPC, UKCP, or PTUK.
- Desirable - Experience of working therapeutically with neurodivergent young people (ASC/ADHD) or young people who have experienced complex trauma/adverse childhood experiences (ACEs).
- Essential - Understanding of trauma-informed practice, attachment theory, and the impact of sensory processing on behaviour.
- Essential - Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students
KEY SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
Experience
- Experience working with young people with a range of special educational needs in an educational setting would be desirable, though applicants with strong transferable skills are welcome.
Core Skills
- Strong clinical reasoning, problem-solving, and written/verbal communication skills are essential.
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively and with a flexible approach within a team is essential.
- Engaging, effective model, guide and trainer
- Commitment to ensuring best outcomes for students
- Trauma-informed and attachment-aware practice
- Values-led Decision Making (SEN focus): The Green Room Foundation is a values based organisation that encourages a commitment to our core values of Kindness, Curiosity and Change in our actions, decisions and operations. (See attached observable behaviours). We foster an inclusive and equitable workplace and encourage applications from all backgrounds.
The Green Room Foundation is an organisation that is both safe and brave. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and animals and expect all staff to share this commitment. This role is subject to an enhanced DBS check, references and a valid/clean UK driving licence.
As the Foundation develops, additional tasks may be required and added to this job description.
- Part Time (2-3 days per week, term time)
Benefits
- 1:1 Supervision and Group Supervision
- Annual CPD
- Company Pension
- Benenden Healthcare
- Death in Service/Life Insurance Cover
- Cyclescheme
- National College Training Portal
Application Process
Please send your CV and a covering letter explaining why you would be a great fit for this role to [email protected]
Closing date 11th September 2026
Pay: From £43,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted or free food
- Sick pay
Work Location: In person
