<h2>Job description</h2><h3>Contract terms</h3><p><strong>Starting salary: PO1 (£40,182 – £42,060)<br>Work location:</strong> Wood Green Library, 187 High Road, Wood Green, London, N22 6DS<br><strong>Hours per week</strong>: 20 <br><strong>Contract type:</strong> Fixed term contract (18 months from start date)<br><strong>Closing date: Sunday, 6th September 2026 at 23:59<br>Expected interview date: W/c 21st September 2026 </strong></p><p><strong>If you are intending on going for a secondment opportunity, please ensure you had notified your line manager/head of service to seek approval</strong></p><h3>About Haringey</h3><p>Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.</p><p>Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.</p><h3>About the role</h3><p>This is a 20-hour per week fixed-term role, comprising 13 hours of direct teaching and additional time allocated to lesson planning, assessment, internal verification, learner support, and associated administrative responsibilities. The postholder will be responsible for delivering high-quality counselling education, supporting learners throughout their programme, and ensuring accurate assessment and quality assurance processes are maintained. Working collaboratively with colleagues, the role will contribute to the continuous improvement of the counselling provision, helping to uphold its quality, integrity, and compliance requirements, while promoting a positive learner experience and supporting strong retention, achievement, and progression outcomes</p><h3>About the team</h3><p>Counselling forms part of our Functional Skills and Career Development Team, which is dedicated to supporting local residents to develop the personal, professional, and employability skills needed to achieve their aspirations and fulfil their potential. We are seeking a collaborative and committed team player who shares our passion for adult learning and community empowerment. The successful candidate will be motivated by the opportunity to support adult learners in developing the knowledge, skills, and confidence required to progress into employment, further study, or career advancement, while contributing positively to a high-quality and learner-centred service.</p><h3>About you</h3><p>We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated counselling professional with a strong commitment to adult education and learner success. The successful candidate will be an experienced and collaborative team player, capable of delivering high-quality teaching and assessment while contributing positively to curriculum development and quality improvement activities. They will hold, or be working towards, an Internal Quality Assurer (IQA) qualification and have a sound understanding of quality assurance processes within counselling education. A strong knowledge of the adult learning sector, including the diverse needs of adult learners, is essential, together with excellent interpersonal, organisational, and communication skills. Above all, we are seeking someone who is passionate about supporting residents to develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to achieve their personal, educational, and employment goals.</p><h3>Working for Haringey</h3><p>At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community.  Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.</p><p>Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role, please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.  </p><p>Additionally, we are aware that automated emails may be diverted through to junk email folders.  Please continue to check these through the application process.  If you have any questions about the status of your application, please contact <a href="mailto:ResourcingHub@haringey.gov.uk" target="_blank">ResourcingHub@haringey.gov.uk</a></p>