Primary Psychotherapist
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 12 Chwefror 2026 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | Scale NHS Band 6 £44,684 to £52,990 |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 03 Mawrth 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Tooting, Greater London, SW17 7DF |
| Gweithio o bell: | Ar y safle yn unig |
| Cwmni: | eTeach UK Limited |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 1534188 |
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Salary: Scale NHS Band 6 £44,684 to £52,990 Actual £25,140.80 – £29,814.05
Location: Nightingale Community Academy, Beechcroft Road, SW17 7DF
Contract: Permanent (Term Time plus 2 weeks) Working Pattern: 3 days a week Nightingale Community Academy is a special school in Wandsworth, providing education for boys aged 5 to 19 with social, emotional, and mental health (SEMH) needs. Our pupils benefit from a nurturing, therapeutic approach embedded throughout the school day. Primary pupils are supported through a purpose-built classroom hub, enriched provision, and access to creative and play-based interventions. Secondary and post-16 students engage in a broad and balanced curriculum, including vocational pathways, all underpinned by strong pastoral and therapeutic support.
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 (where appropriate), and external agencies to support pupil outcomes.
Maintain safeguarding, professional boundaries, accurate record keeping, and engage in supervision and CPD.
Key Requirements:
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-keeping and teamwork skills, with commitment to supervision and professional development.
OHCAT is an exciting, forward-thinking organisation, and we offer many benefits to attract and keep our staff, contributing towards maintaining and improving wellbeing, and encouraging our required behaviours, achievements, values, and skills. Below is just a selection of 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 Scheme and Home 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, MyGym Discounts, Corporate Eyecare Scheme
Employee Discounts (Blue Light Card, Costco Membership, Discounts for Teachers, and more)
Other (Season Ticket Loan and Employee Referral Scheme)
Find out what makes Orchard Hill College and Academy Trust a truly rewarding place to work – visit our ‘Work for Us’ page to learn more about our values, opportunities and the difference our staff make every day.Our Trust
Nightingale Community Academy is part of Orchard Hill College and Academy Trust. We are a family of specialist education providers from pre-school through to further education across London, Surrey, Sussex and Berkshire and fully represent all designations of special education needs and disabilities (SEND). To find out more about us, and what makes us a special place to work please visit our website.
We are committed to promoting and advancing equality of opportunity by attracting and retaining the most diverse range of students, staff and partners.
Working together to transform lives is what we do and across the whole organisation we have a range of experts and practitioners who advocate for children and young people with SEND to ensure they receive the best possible opportunities to achieve their full potential.
As a large specialist education provider we employ over 1500 people across our schools, college and central support team. There is a wide range of job roles available, ranging from teaching and therapy to business support roles and significant career progression opportunities.
It is an exciting time to be part of OHCAT and we are keen to recruit talented people who can play a key role in realising our mission and who want to make a difference. In return, we offer training and development, competitive pay and benefits in a positive and inclusive working environment.
If you wish to discuss this opportunity before or after submitting an application form, please get in touch with the School directly. Visits to the School in advance of applications are encouraged.
Your application form will be scored according to each of the requirements laid out in the person specification for this role. Please demonstrate in your statement how your experience, skills and knowledge match the criteria that are required for the role.
To apply for this role, please click ‘Fast Apply’, you will then be directed to a ‘Login’ page, once signed in, please complete and submit the Application Form.Please note that CV applications cannot be considered.
Closing Date: 03 March 2026
Interviews will take place on: Week Commencing 9th March 2026
Safeguarding Statement:
Orchard Hill College & 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.
In line with the statutory guidance in Keeping Children Safe in Education, the Trust reserves the right to request and review references prior to interview as part of our safer recruitment process. Any concerns raised will be followed up with the applicant before a recruitment decision is made.
Location: Nightingale Community Academy, Beechcroft Road, SW17 7DF
Contract: Permanent (Term Time plus 2 weeks) Working Pattern: 3 days a week Nightingale Community Academy is a special school in Wandsworth, providing education for boys aged 5 to 19 with social, emotional, and mental health (SEMH) needs. Our pupils benefit from a nurturing, therapeutic approach embedded throughout the school day. Primary pupils are supported through a purpose-built classroom hub, enriched provision, and access to creative and play-based interventions. Secondary and post-16 students engage in a broad and balanced curriculum, including vocational pathways, all underpinned by strong pastoral and therapeutic support.
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 (where appropriate), and external agencies to support pupil outcomes.
Maintain safeguarding, professional boundaries, accurate record keeping, and engage in supervision and CPD.
Key Requirements:
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-keeping and teamwork skills, with commitment to supervision and professional development.
OHCAT is an exciting, forward-thinking organisation, and we offer many benefits to attract and keep our staff, contributing towards maintaining and improving wellbeing, and encouraging our required behaviours, achievements, values, and skills. Below is just a selection of 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 Scheme and Home 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, MyGym Discounts, Corporate Eyecare Scheme
Employee Discounts (Blue Light Card, Costco Membership, Discounts for Teachers, and more)
Other (Season Ticket Loan and Employee Referral Scheme)
Find out what makes Orchard Hill College and Academy Trust a truly rewarding place to work – visit our ‘Work for Us’ page to learn more about our values, opportunities and the difference our staff make every day.Our Trust
Nightingale Community Academy is part of Orchard Hill College and Academy Trust. We are a family of specialist education providers from pre-school through to further education across London, Surrey, Sussex and Berkshire and fully represent all designations of special education needs and disabilities (SEND). To find out more about us, and what makes us a special place to work please visit our website.
We are committed to promoting and advancing equality of opportunity by attracting and retaining the most diverse range of students, staff and partners.
Working together to transform lives is what we do and across the whole organisation we have a range of experts and practitioners who advocate for children and young people with SEND to ensure they receive the best possible opportunities to achieve their full potential.
As a large specialist education provider we employ over 1500 people across our schools, college and central support team. There is a wide range of job roles available, ranging from teaching and therapy to business support roles and significant career progression opportunities.
It is an exciting time to be part of OHCAT and we are keen to recruit talented people who can play a key role in realising our mission and who want to make a difference. In return, we offer training and development, competitive pay and benefits in a positive and inclusive working environment.
If you wish to discuss this opportunity before or after submitting an application form, please get in touch with the School directly. Visits to the School in advance of applications are encouraged.
Your application form will be scored according to each of the requirements laid out in the person specification for this role. Please demonstrate in your statement how your experience, skills and knowledge match the criteria that are required for the role.
To apply for this role, please click ‘Fast Apply’, you will then be directed to a ‘Login’ page, once signed in, please complete and submit the Application Form.Please note that CV applications cannot be considered.
Closing Date: 03 March 2026
Interviews will take place on: Week Commencing 9th March 2026
Safeguarding Statement:
Orchard Hill College & 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.
In line with the statutory guidance in Keeping Children Safe in Education, the Trust reserves the right to request and review references prior to interview as part of our safer recruitment process. Any concerns raised will be followed up with the applicant before a recruitment decision is made.