Primary Psychotherapist
| Posting date: | 12 February 2026 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 03 March 2026 |
| Location: | London, SW17 7DF |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | af71a9b7-bc3e-4336-8686-c11964912eb1 |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking a dedicated and enthusiastic Psychotherapist to join our multidisciplinary team. In this vital role, you will deliver high-quality therapeutic interventions to support learners’ emotional wellbeing, mental health, and personal development. You will work with individual pupils and groups, contributing to assessment, formulation, and care planning, while supporting staff to understand and respond to pupils’ emotional needs.
Working closely with the Principal, Senior Leadership Team, therapists, and teaching staff, you will play a key role in promoting a trauma-informed, psychologically safe learning environment that reflects the Academy’s aims and values.
Key Responsibilities:
• Deliver individual therapeutic sessions for primary-aged pupils using integrative and play-based approaches.
• Assess pupils’ needs and develop, review, and adapt therapeutic plans and goals.
• Build safe, trusting relationships and support pupils with SEMH needs, including trauma and attachment difficulties.
• Work collaboratively with school staff, families (whereappropriate), and external agencies to support pupil outcomes.
• Maintain safeguarding, professional boundaries,accuraterecord keeping, and engage in supervision and CPD.
KeyRequirements:
• Qualified Integrative Counsellor/Psychotherapist with current BACP or UKCP registration and ongoing CPD.
• Proven experience delivering therapeutic interventions to primary-aged children, including those with SEMH needs.
• Strong understanding of trauma-informed and attachment-aware practice, including safeguarding responsibilities.
• Ability to build safe, trusting therapeutic relationships and deliver effective, play-based interventions.
• Strong communication,record-keepingand teamwork skills, with commitment to supervision and professional development.
What the school offers its staff
OHCAT is an exciting, forward-thinking organisation, and we offer many benefits to attract and keep our staff, contributing towardsmaintainingand improving wellbeing, and encouraging our required behaviours, achievements, values, and skills. Below is just aselectionof the benefits available to our employees:
Rewards & Benefits:
Pathways for progression within the trust, ensuring you can grow and thrive in a supportive and inclusive environment.
• Pension Scheme - you will be enrolled in either the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) or the Teachers' Pension Scheme (TPS), both offering life cover and financial protection for your family.
• Salary Sacrifice Schemes (Cycle SchemeandHome Electronics Scheme)
• Employee Wellbeing - We support employee wellbeing with access to counselling, mental health support, generous leave, flexible working, and enhanced parental leave including Employee Assistance Programme,MyGymDiscounts, Corporate Eyecare Scheme
• Employee Discounts (Blue Light Card, Costco Membership, Discounts for Teachers, and more)
• Other (Season Ticket Loan and Employee Referral Scheme)
Commitment to safeguarding
Nightingale Community Academy and Orchard Hill College and Academy Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointments made will be subject to an Enhanced Disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.
We are seeking a dedicated and enthusiastic Psychotherapist to join our multidisciplinary team. In this vital role, you will deliver high-quality therapeutic interventions to support learners’ emotional wellbeing, mental health, and personal development. You will work with individual pupils and groups, contributing to assessment, formulation, and care planning, while supporting staff to understand and respond to pupils’ emotional needs.
Working closely with the Principal, Senior Leadership Team, therapists, and teaching staff, you will play a key role in promoting a trauma-informed, psychologically safe learning environment that reflects the Academy’s aims and values.
Key Responsibilities:
• Deliver individual therapeutic sessions for primary-aged pupils using integrative and play-based approaches.
• Assess pupils’ needs and develop, review, and adapt therapeutic plans and goals.
• Build safe, trusting relationships and support pupils with SEMH needs, including trauma and attachment difficulties.
• Work collaboratively with school staff, families (whereappropriate), and external agencies to support pupil outcomes.
• Maintain safeguarding, professional boundaries,accuraterecord keeping, and engage in supervision and CPD.
KeyRequirements:
• Qualified Integrative Counsellor/Psychotherapist with current BACP or UKCP registration and ongoing CPD.
• Proven experience delivering therapeutic interventions to primary-aged children, including those with SEMH needs.
• Strong understanding of trauma-informed and attachment-aware practice, including safeguarding responsibilities.
• Ability to build safe, trusting therapeutic relationships and deliver effective, play-based interventions.
• Strong communication,record-keepingand teamwork skills, with commitment to supervision and professional development.
What the school offers its staff
OHCAT is an exciting, forward-thinking organisation, and we offer many benefits to attract and keep our staff, contributing towardsmaintainingand improving wellbeing, and encouraging our required behaviours, achievements, values, and skills. Below is just aselectionof the benefits available to our employees:
Rewards & Benefits:
Pathways for progression within the trust, ensuring you can grow and thrive in a supportive and inclusive environment.
• Pension Scheme - you will be enrolled in either the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) or the Teachers' Pension Scheme (TPS), both offering life cover and financial protection for your family.
• Salary Sacrifice Schemes (Cycle SchemeandHome Electronics Scheme)
• Employee Wellbeing - We support employee wellbeing with access to counselling, mental health support, generous leave, flexible working, and enhanced parental leave including Employee Assistance Programme,MyGymDiscounts, Corporate Eyecare Scheme
• Employee Discounts (Blue Light Card, Costco Membership, Discounts for Teachers, and more)
• Other (Season Ticket Loan and Employee Referral Scheme)
Commitment to safeguarding
Nightingale Community Academy and Orchard Hill College and Academy Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointments made will be subject to an Enhanced Disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.