School Counsellor

**Job type**:
Full Time, Permanent

28 April 2025

**Job overview**:
**Position**: School Counsellor

**Location**: Doha, Qatar

**About Us**:
Sherborne Qatar is part of a distinguished family of British schools in Doha, offering exceptional education to pupils aged 3 to 18. As the only British independent school invited to join Qatar’s Supreme Education Council’s Outstanding Schools Programme, Sherborne Qatar holds a unique and prestigious position.

Affiliated with the historic Sherborne School in the UK, founded in 1550, we uphold a rich legacy of academic excellence and character development. Our emphasis on academic success, small class sizes, pastoral care, and a wide range of extracurricular activities ensures the all-round development of every pupil.

Located next to the Mall of Qatar in the Grand Zone, **Sherborne Senior School Qatar** is looking to appoint inspirational, enthusiastic, and talented staff members as part of our exciting and rapid expansion.

**Please note**: All applicants must be under the age of 50 in order to comply with Qatar work visa restrictions.

**Our Vision**:
To establish a group or family of schools to support Qatar’s 2030 Vision.

**Our Mission**:
To produce well-educated, well-rounded individuals who have high aspirations and achieve their potential in a happy and nurturing school.

**Our Values**:
Respect | Honesty | Kindness | Perseverance | Teamwork | Responsibility

**Our Learning Dispositions**:
Creativity | Communication | Curiosity | Independence | Risk-taking | Resilience

**The Role**:
We are seeking a dedicated and dynamic **School Counsellor** to join our team on a full-time basis. In this role, you will:

- Work closely with the Deputy Head Pastoral, safeguarding team, and parents to make referrals to appropriate external agencies.
- Create a safe psychological environment for students, promoting ongoing support and encouraging help-seeking behaviour.
- Develop and assess the effectiveness of psychological and social counselling programmes within the school.
- Provide counselling services for all age groups, including students with disabilities and learning difficulties.
- Prepare evaluation tools for psychological counselling processes.
- Monitor and analyse student behavioural issues, support policy development, and recommend solutions.
- Provide psychological, social, and counselling consultations to students and parents.
- Coordinate with community organisations for the exchange of expertise in counselling.
- Stay updated with the latest developments in pupil counselling.
- Prepare and share resources/sessions to contribute to the school’s mental health and well-being programme.

**Qualifications and Experience**:
**Essential Qualifications**:

- A Bachelor's degree in one of the following:

- Social Work
- Sociology
- Psychology
- Psychiatry

**Required Competencies and Skills**:

- Absenteeism, tardiness, skipping school
- Academic delay due to internal and external factors
- Behavioural and psychological challenges (aggression, anxiety, depression, bullying, etc.)
- Health issues (chronic diseases, disabilities, etc.)
- Social problems (isolation, discrimination, etc.)
- Economic challenges
- Strong counselling and interpersonal skills including:

- Active listening
- Cultural awareness
- Patience, empathy, and care
- Emotional intelligence and resilience
- Critical thinking and decision-making
- Problem-solving and communication
- Ability to build relationships and manage diverse pupil behaviour
- Report writing, form-filling, and organisational skills
- Administrative and technical competence relevant to school counselling

**Safeguarding and Child Protection**:
Sherborne Qatar is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All staff must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.

**About**Sherborne School**:
**Sherborne School**
- Villa 25, Street 605, Zone 51, Mall of Qatar, Al Jahhaniya Interchange, Al Gharaffa
- Doha
- Qatar

+974 459 6400

A truly international school, with pupils from over 60 different nationalities, Sherborne Senior School in Qatar is one of the highest performing premier independent British senior schools in the Middle East. Dedicated to knowing our pupils as individuals, our holistic approach to education ensures pastoral care has as much emphasis as academic excellence.

Our strength as a school is our high-quality pastoral care, excellent teachers, our extensive enrichment programme and our community, friendly and family-orientated culture.

Sherborne Senior School is one of Sherborne’s family of schools in Qatar. The Sherborne Qatar schools are fortunate to be able to draw upon and share in the experience of our historic and prestigious home school in England. We have much in common with Sherborne School; we are all dedicated to providing the best that British independent education can offer