Counsellor Required: Northampton, Northamptonshire

WhereToTalk; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust is seeking Counsellors to join the 14 Arches team in Northampton. The role involves delivering short term counselling to NHS staff, leading wellbeing groups, and providing initial assessments for complex cases.

You will work under Joint Service Leads with regular clinical supervision, contribute to service development, and deliver training to staff focusing on wellbeing and safeguarding procedures.

Qualifications

• Must provide short term counselling interventions to NHS staff.
• Experience in facilitating staff wellbeing groups is desirable.
• Strong skills in safeguarding and risk assessment across adult mental health.

Responsibilities

• Deliver short term counselling interventions to NHS staff for a range of issues.
• Contribute to development and delivery of psychologically informed groups to promote staff wellbeing.
• Provide initial assessment of clients presenting with multiple and complex issues; make referrals as needed.
• Undertake safety assessments and develop safety plans for individual clients.
• Support safeguarding processes and share information per policy.
• Deliver service presentations and training sessions as required.
• Contribute to service evaluation, audits and research.
• Attend and contribute to team meetings and service development.

Skills

Counselling

Group facilitation

Risk assessment

Safeguarding

Education

Relevant counselling/psychology qualification

Job description

Counsellor Required: Northampton, Northamptonshire

Counsellor Required: Northampton, Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Band: Band 6

Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year per annum

Contract: Permanent

Reference number: 270-TH330-MH

14 Arches, Staff Psychology and Counselling, is a psychology led service, which delivers specialist psychological support to NHFT colleagues. The team currently consists of two part-time Principal Psychologists, who are the Joint Service Leads; Senior Psychologists and Counsellors.

You would be joining the 14 Arches team at an exciting time of service expansion, in order to meet the needs of a growing NHFT workforce. We are recruiting additional Band 6 Counsellors (1.5 WTE permanent) to join the team. The role comprises working directly with individuals and groups, providing training and supporting the development of the service. This will include offering short-term counselling to individual staff around a concern which is impacting them at work. It may also involve facilitating group sessions for staff related to psychological wellbeing as well as presenting about the service and providing training sessions relevant to staff wellbeing.

The post will be line managed by one of the Joint Service Leads. Regular clinical supervision will be provided by either a Senior or Principal Psychologist within the service. We also hold regular reflective practice sessions within the team and encourage engagement with a Community of Practice for counsellors working in NHS settings.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will be expected to:

Deliver short term counselling interventions to NHS staff for a range of presenting issues

Contribute to the development and delivery of psychologically informed groups to promote staff wellbeing

Provide initial assessment of clients presenting with multiple and complex issues; select appropriate therapeutic interventions, make decisions regarding referrals to specialist services and facilitate these as needed.

Undertake safety assessments/formulations and development of safety plans for individual clients.

Manage safeguarding concerns and share information to ensure safeguarding in accordance with local and national policy.

Deliver service presentations, teaching/training sessions according to service need

Contribute to service evaluation, audit and research

Attend and contribute to team meetings

Contribute to service development, identify areas for improvement and propose changes to service delivery and working practices.

Provide induction and in-service training to pre-registration counsellors and trainees.

Please note this is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities of the post. The post holder may be required to undertake other duties as may reasonably be required commensurate with the grade and/or hours of work at the post holders initial place of work or at any other of the Trust’s establishments.