Tutor for Postgraduate Diploma (including child and infant observation), London

About The Role

Place2Be is seeking an experienced and reflective Postgraduate Tutor to join our training team, with a particular focus on infant and child observation. The post‑holder will contribute to the delivery and development of our highly regarded BACP‑accredited Postgraduate Diploma programme, run in partnership with the University of East London. The role involves teaching, assessment and student support at postgraduate level, ensuring high‑quality learning experiences that reflect best practice in school‑based counselling, safeguarding, and anti‑oppressive practice. Together we can change children’s lives. At Place2Be, we believe every child should have easy access to mental health support whenever they need it. We create a safe place in schools where children and young people can open up without pressure or stigma, allowing our highly skilled and diverse counsellors to reach children, young people and their families who need us.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan, prepare and deliver infant and child observation seminars and postgraduate teaching, both in person and online
• Deliver lectures, facilitate seminars, skills groups and tutorials at Level 7
• Assess written work and vivas, providing high‑quality formative and summative feedback
• Offer one‑to‑one tutorial support to trainees across the programme
• Ensure safeguarding, health and safety responsibilities are upheld during training delivery
• Contribute to student recruitment, interviews and selection processes
• Support course development, quality assurance, standardisation and accreditation requirements
• Attend meetings, supervision and external moderation as required
• Promote Place2Be’s clinical and training work internally and externally

What You Will Need

• A postgraduate qualification (MA/Postgraduate Diploma) in counselling or psychotherapy
• At least 2 years post qualification experience of clinical counselling work with children and young people
• Professional accreditation or registration (BACP accredited, or UKCP/HCPC registered)
• Direct experience of both infant and child observation supported by a classroom experience/seminar learning experience

For a career with purpose, this is your place.

Recruitment Process:

As part of your application you will need to answer some shortlisting questions. Please answer these as fully as you can, we recommend using the STAR model. Situation, Task, Action Result.

Closing date for applications: Midnight on 11/05/2026

1st Interview date: 18/05/2026

Our Benefits

When you work at Place2Be – whether that's in a school, supporting families, providing clinical supervision, or in IT, Finance, or Fundraising – every role can make the difference to a young person. To achieve this, we ask that you bring your best self to your role and our commitment to you, is to welcome you into our community, and help you progress. Because we know that you being at your best, means the best outcomes for the children we support. Here’s just a few things we have on offer:

• Annual Leave that increases with service
• Comprehensive learning and development to enable you to progress your career
• 5% contributory pension scheme
• Life assurance of four times your annual salary
• A comprehensive employee assistance programme
• Mobile Phone Discounts (EE network)
• Wellbeing days to allow you some ‘you’ time
• Christmas holidays closure period in addition to your annual leave

We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith or disability. We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic candidates and disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented within our organisation. We are proud to be a disability confident employer and will ask you during your application if you wish to be considered for a guaranteed interview under the disability confident scheme. Under the scheme we commit to offering an interview to disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria as outlined in the job role. If you have any questions about the scheme, or require any adjustments to help you complete an application then please contact the recruitment team.

We recognise that AI is becoming part of daily life and you may want to use it to help you format your CV, create responses to application questions or even help you prepare responses. AI can be a powerful enabler and we are open to you using it to apply for roles with us, but we ask you to ensure anything you submit truly represents your capabilities and viewpoint. We value honesty, integrity and creativity and want to understand what you will uniquely bring to our team.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.