Band 6/7 Counsellor

TN United Kingdom; London; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is expanding its counselling team and seeks empathetic and committed individuals to provide time-limited therapy. This role offers the opportunity to work in a collaborative environment, providing essential support to clients through both in-person and remote sessions. With a focus on professional development, you'll receive excellent supervision and training opportunities, paving the way for career progression. If you're passionate about mental health and eager to make a difference, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Accredited with BACP or UKCP, with 2 years of post-qualification experience.
• Specialist IAPT training in modalities like DIT or IPT.

Responsibilities

• Provide qualified counselling service to Step 3 clients.
• Liaise with other mental health services and agencies.
• Contribute to policy and service development.

Skills

Verbal Communication

Written Communication

Therapeutic Relationship Development

Mental Health Knowledge

Evidence-Based Psychological Interventions

Education

Accreditation with BACP/UKCP

2 years post-qualification experience

Specialist IAPT training

Job description

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Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

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London, United Kingdom

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Other

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Posted:

26.04.2025

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10.06.2025

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Job overview

We are proud of the success of Barnet Talking Therapies and are expanding our counselling team.

Would you like to Join us?

Barnet Talking Therapies are looking for a counsellor who is empathetic, caring and committed to time limited therapy in the NHS, to join our successful counselling team. We are a well established team of therapists including CBT practitioners, PWPs with counsellors being well integrated within the service.

Your training might be psychodynamic, person centred, integrative or existential and you should be accredited with the BACP, on the UKCP register (candidates who have submitted their portfolios for accreditation also accepted -state this clearly in your supporting statement). You will have excellent spoken and written communication skills. Our service works to a hybrid model, we offer sessions to our clients in person or via a video platform, which means you will be required to work at our sites in Edgware or Finchley as well as working remotely. As an employer we support flexible working.

We will be committed to helping you continue to progress your career, through a range of development and training opportunities, in addition to excellent supervision and peer support. We will also support you getting onto an IAPT training programme and progress towards a band 7 position if you are appointed to a band 6 post.

We are an equal opportunity employer and are keen to recruit people that reflect the diverse communities we serve.

Main duties of the job

JOB SUMMARY

• To provide a qualified time limited counselling service to Step 3 clients of the Barnet Talking Therapies Service.
• To offer advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to staff from other agencies involved in providing care.
• To work to a pattern of clinical hours and in localities that support the needs of the service and local population.
• To liaise with local mental health-based services and voluntary community agencies.
• To monitor and audit evidence-based practice.
• To contribute to policy and service development within the team and the area served by the team/service.
• To work within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.

Working for our organisation

The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.

In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification required for the post of Counsellor

Person specification

Qualification

• Accreditation with BACP/UKCP or equivalent accrediting body or eligible for such accreditation.
• 2 years post-qualification experience.
• Specialist IAPT training and accreditation in IAPTapproved modality, e.g. DIT, IPT, Counselling for Depression

Experience

• Demonstrable experience of working in mental health services
• Experience of working in Primary Care Services
• Experience of providing evidence-based psychological interventions.
• Experience of working in an IAPT Service.
• Ability to evaluate and put in place the effect of training.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients.

Knowledge

• Demonstrates an understanding of anxiety and depression and how it may present in Primary Care.
• Demonstrates a knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health
• Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidencebased psychological therapies and how it relates to this post.
• Knowledge of medication used in anxiety and depression and other common mental health problems

Other Requirements

• High level of enthusiasm and Motivation.
• Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships
• Regard for others and respect for individual rights of autonomy and confidentiality.