Each partner school is led by a Team Leader and a Deputy Team Leader. These roles involve coordinating the service delivery in schools, supporting staff and handling referrals and a personal caseload. Team Leader and Deputy Team Leader posts will be advertised on the website as they become available.

Team Leader role description

Deputy Team Leader role description

Application Form (Clinical)

In Blue Smile’s Outreach service, offering:

• clinical hours and experience of work with a diverse range of clients
• paid admin time supporting the clinical work
• the opportunity to work quite independently but with the oversight of an experienced Outreach Manager
• the chance to build managerial skills in handling referrals and liaising with teachers
• training and CPD
• career progression within exciting clinical service.

Outreach Associate Therapists work in an allocated school, picking up several cases. There is some flexibility, so the work can fit well with existing commitments and builds into very valuable professional development to more senior roles.

Outreach Associate Therapist role description

Outreach Associate Therapist Application Form

Therapist clinical placements – volunteer counsellors and therapists

Blue Smile uses an arts-based therapeutic model to help children and young people to regulate their emotions and organise their thoughts. Ideally, we are looking for applicants who are in at least the second year of a level 6  course (or equivalent) in counselling or therapy with children. However, we will consider applicants at an earlier stage of training but who have significant therapeutic experience of working with children in relevant settings.

A Blue Smile therapist clinical placement offers:

• Experience of working as part of a team in a school
• Clinical hours
• Training and continuing professional development
• Group supervision
• Career opportunities

Team Leaders will provide on-going support and guidance throughout the placement.

Therapist clinical placement volunteers will be required to have an interview, enhanced DBS (criminal record) check, references and an induction.

Our placements involve a minimum of half a day once a week in term time, ideally for a commitment of at least one academic year. The work may be both short and long-term, depending on an assessment of need on referral. We provide fortnightly group supervision, as well as training and career development opportunities.

Please contact: info@bluesmile.org.uk

Therapist clinical placement role description

Therapist clinical placement application form

Mentoring counsellor placements are aimed at students who may be at an early stage of a child and adolescent counselling training course and are seeking direct work experience with children. These placements help build listening, play and emotional support skills. It is expected that any course the applicant is currently undertaking will include a personal development component, clinical supervision, and opportunities to reflect on practice.

A Blue Smile mentoring counsellor placement offers:

• Experience of working as part of a team in a school
• Hours counted towards BACP accreditation
• Training and continuing professional development
• Monthly supervision with your Team Leader
• Career opportunities

Team Leaders will provide on-going support and guidance throughout the placement.

Mentoring counsellor placement volunteers will be required to have an interview, enhanced DBS (criminal record) check, references and an induction.

Our placements involve a minimum of half a day once a week in term time, ideally for a commitment of at least one academic year. The work may be both short and long-term, depending on an assessment of need on referral.

Please contact: info@bluesmile.org.uk

Mentoring counsellor role description

Mentoring counsellor application form

Blue Smile offers mentoring opportunities which involve supporting a child or young person in school struggling with some emotional or behavioural difficulties. Mentors are required to have experience of working with children in relevant settings, particularly with children who need support because of the difficulties they face.

A pupil with such difficulties may not require counselling, but would really benefit from a reliable and consistent adult in their lives, prepared to go the extra mile for them. Mentors become a valuable role model who will listen, play and help a child make sense of confusing or difficult feelings.

Volunteer mentors commit to giving at least an hour a week to befriend one or two children in a school, helping to build their self-esteem, to engage better in school life and to simply have fun.

Volunteers will be required to have an interview, an enhanced DBS (criminal record) check, references and an induction interview.

Contact: info@bluesmile.org.uk

Mentoring role description

Mentoring application form