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Be is hiring a Counsellor for Kaimhill and Heathryburn School in Aberdeen. The fixed-term role sits within Place2

Be'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.

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Be 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:
Counsellor

Employer:

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Be

Location:

Kaimhill and Heathryburn School, Aberdeen Employment:
Fixed term

Hours:

35 per week, Monday to Friday Salary: £30,725 per year Closing date: 1 November 2026

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Be 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.

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Be'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.

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

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Be 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. Place2

Be links its safeguarding policy from its careers information, and its training provision includes a specialist supervision qualification.

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Be 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.

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Be 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…