School Counsellor

Workplace Circumstances

• Environment: Educational (schools / universities etc.)
• Languages: English, Khmer
• Location: Phnom Penh

Position Summary

Working Day: Monday to Friday

Start Day: 10 August 2026

Purpose:

Contribute to the work of the School’s pastoral and student support teams by providing expert counselling and support to individual students and groups of students to help them to overcome emotional, personal and social barriers to learning and well-being.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Overall Responsibilities
• Provide counselling support for students by:
• In collaboration with the pastoral supervisors or leaders to evaluate the needs of referred students and determine the correct level of support that is required for each one.
• Managing a caseload of students who require confidential one-to-one counselling or therapeutic group work, ensuring that support is provided in a timely and time-bonded manner.
• Identifying next steps for students for whom the school has worked and who require further support.
• Maintaining accurate and detailed records of work undertaken with each student.
• Building positive relationships with the parents of students who are receiving support.
• Being a visible and known member of the staff community to students across the Bromsgrove Cambodia such that they are aware of the support available.
• Support the work of pastoral teams by:
• Developing schemes of learning for identified students to support positive mental health, well-being and barriers to learning.
• Proactively supporting the pastoral program through the delivery of assemblies that address issues related to well-being, emotional resilience and self-confidence, among other agreed topics.
• Being a source of informal support and provide formalised training for teaching and support staff that are providing support to students.
• Contributing to the pastoral daily operations by ensuring that all students that visit the team are dealt with professionally and are able to return to lessons, if appropriate, following an evaluation of their needs.
• Any other actions that are deemed necessary by the Head of School or pastoral supervisor or leaders in order to develop Therapeutic input and provision at Bromsgrove Cambodia.
• Professionalism
• Proactively and accurately reporting safeguarding concerns.
• Maintaining an expertise in issues such as mental health well-being and counselling strategies in order to be able to provide expert support to the students.
• Maintaining confidentiality, except in those circumstances outlined by British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) / School safeguarding.
• Maintaining high standards of professional practice, complying at all times with counselling regulatory body guidelines and pastoral team expectations.
• Attending supervision, training courses and team meetings as required.
• Welfare and Discipline Matters
• Handle sensitively and in line with Pastoral Team guidelines and expectations and the safeguarding policy the support of students with social, emotional, behavioural, and mental health needs.
• Leadership in Action
• Proactively participate in the well-being and therapeutic direction across the Whole School in close collaboration with key stakeholders.
• Professional Development
• Seek out opportunities for professional development to support the role.
• Actively engage in CPD opportunities within the School/Family of Schools.
• Collegiality
• Attend meetings designed to share information necessary for the smooth running of the school and the successful delivery of its programmes regarding students that are/may require counselling input.
• Behave at all times in a manner befitting a role model for the students at the school and in a manner that brings only respect to colleagues and the reputation of the Bromsgrove Cambodia.
• Safeguarding
• Take seriously the responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, and to work together with others to ensure adequate arrangements within the school help to identify, assess, and support children who are suffering harm.
• Ensure the ongoing Health & Security for all Bromsgrove Cambodia stakeholders

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in In Counselling, Social Work, Human Services. Play Therapy or relevant degree or certification in a counselling field.

General & Technical Skills

• Experience of working in a school environment.
• Experience of working and liaising with other agencies and with a diversity of client groups.
• Experience of organising workshops and providing training to others.
• Relevant experience in a helping profession, either paid or voluntary.
• Highly developed counselling skills through education and experience
• A clear and demonstrable grasp of theoretical bases underpinning the process of counselling.
• The ability to show how the above informs the applicant’s approaches to counselling across the spectrum of human development.
• A thorough knowledge of Child Protection and safeguarding in Cambodia.
• Familiarity with SEND.
• Possess an understanding of the key issues impacting on young people’s lives today.
• Understanding of Child Development
• Ability to liaise as necessary with other agencies and individuals to help effect positive change based on the issues raised by clients.
• Committed to the concept of inclusive education and high expectations and achievements for all pupils.

Soft Skills

• Maintain a client centred approach, be approachable.
• Enthusiasm for working with children and young people.
• A mature and non-judgemental outlook.
• Problem Solver.
• Excellent communication and listening skills.
• Child Protection and Safeguarding certification.
• Patience, tolerance and sensitivity.
• Culturally Sensitive.
• Critical Thinking Skills.
• Computer skills
• Systematic record keeping.
• Able to work well under pressure, exercise thoughtful judgement and display sensitivity.
• A clean enhanced Disclosure and Barring Services check or police check and no question regarding suitability to work with children.