Place2Be is hiring a Counsellor for Kaimhill and Heathryburn School in Aberdeen. The fixed-term role sits within Place2Be's Learning and Practice department and pays £30,725 per year. The post covers 35 hours each week from Monday to Friday. The closing date is 1 November 2026. The role places counselling work within two school communities serving children and young people in the north of Scotland.Place2Be provides mental health support in schools across the UK. Its counsellors work with children and young people while school communities receive resources and support that help pupils develop coping skills. The Aberdeen post is based at Kaimhill and Heathryburn School, so the work takes place within an education setting rather than a general private practice. School counselling roles in Aberdeen use the same local listing route as this vacancy.
Role: CounsellorEmployer: Place2BeLocation: Kaimhill and Heathryburn School, AberdeenEmployment: Fixed termHours: 35 per week, Monday to FridaySalary: £30,725 per yearClosing date: 1 November 2026
School-Based Counselling At Kaimhill And Heathryburn
Place2Be works in schools and school communities, where counselling is connected to the daily lives of children and young people. The organisation describes its purpose as providing mental health support, resources and encouragement that help young people develop lifelong coping skills. The Aberdeen counsellor therefore works within a setting where emotional support and education meet.
Place2Be's school work covers children under 18 and includes direct counselling alongside support for staff and wider school communities. Its UK programme operates across schools rather than from a single clinic. The organisation is a registered charity in England and Wales and in Scotland, and its school-based services form part of that national work.
What Counselling Work Involves
Counselling sessions give clients space to address emotional, psychological and relationship issues. A counsellor listens, empathises and may challenge a client to see an issue more clearly, while the client develops their own solutions rather than receiving advice. The work can involve individuals, couples, families or groups, although this vacancy is located in a school setting.
- Listening to the child's experience without taking over the decision-making
- Maintaining professional boundaries in a school community
- Working within safeguarding procedures for children and young people
- Keeping practice competent, ethical and safe
Training, Supervision And Safe Practice
Place2Be lists specialist training routes for work with children, including a Level 4 Diploma in School-Based Child Counselling and postgraduate study in counselling and psychotherapy for children and young people in schools. Its careers information also lists further qualifications in therapeutic work with children and in counselling supervision. The relevant qualification for this vacancy remains the requirement set by the employer.
BACP supervision guidance describes supervision by another qualified practitioner as an expected part of professional counselling practice. BACP recommends at least one hour of supervision for every eight hours of client work, while students on BACP-accredited courses receive at least 1.5 hours each month. A supervisor acts as a professional mentor for skill development, best practice and wellbeing rather than as a line manager.
Safe work with children depends on more than session technique. The counsellor needs to understand the employer's safeguarding policy, confidentiality boundaries and escalation procedures before beginning client work. Place2Be links its safeguarding policy from its careers information, and its training provision includes a specialist supervision qualification.
Place2Be's Support For School Communities
Place2Be works with school communities to help children feel safe enough to open up. The organisation describes its approach as nurturing and supportive, with resources that help pupils build coping skills over time. The counsellor's work sits inside that wider service rather than operating as an isolated appointment schedule.
Place2Be says it invests in staff from the beginning of employment and supports their development. Its training catalogue includes counselling skills, school-based child counselling and therapeutic counselling supervision. That professional development structure gives the Aberdeen role a connection to the wider practice community serving children and young people in UK schools.
Working In Aberdeen's School Setting
Kaimhill and Heathryburn School places the post in Aberdeen, Scotland, with weekday work across a 35-hour week. The school location gives the role a defined professional setting and a regular Monday-to-Friday pattern. The fixed-term contract sets the employment period, while the application record sets the remaining terms.
Aberdeen's school counsellor community includes practitioners working with children, families and education staff across different services. Aberdeen therapy jobs cover a local area that includes this vacancy's city. The counselling vacancies link carries the site's current category filter without changing the facts of this particular role.
The employer's careers contact is jobs@place2be.org.uk and the listed telephone number is 020 7923 5050. Those details belong to Place2Be's wider recruitment service, while the vacancy's application record remains the route for this Aberdeen position.
The closing date of 1 November 2026 gives the fixed-term role a defined recruitment deadline. Place2Be's school focus, the weekday schedule and the professional supervision framework identify the practical setting in which the successful counsellor will work.
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