Occupational Health Counsellor

Perkbox; Remote; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent wellness company is seeking a qualified Occupational Health Counsellor to provide remote counselling support to clients. The successful candidate will deliver short-term interventions, manage risk, and ensure ethical practice. A Diploma in Counselling and at least two years of experience are required. This role offers flexibility and the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on clients' wellbeing while managing up to 25 hours of client-facing work per week.

Benefits

Access to expert mental health services

Flexible working hours

Inclusive hiring practices

Qualifications

• Minimum two years’ counselling experience.
• Experience delivering telephone and virtual counselling.
• Ability to manage own caseload, delivering up to 25 client-facing hours weekly.

Responsibilities

• Deliver confidential, short-term counselling via telephone and virtual appointments.
• Complete clinical assessments and manage risk.
• Maintain accurate clinical records and adhere to ethical frameworks.

Skills

Compassionate

Risk assessment skills

Confidence

Solid IT capability

Education

Diploma (minimum Level 4) or Postgraduate qualification in Counselling and/or Psychotherapy

Registered or Accredited membership with BACP or NCS

Tools

CORE-Net

Clinical systems

Job description

📍UK Remote

Does this sound like you?

You’re a qualified and compassionate counsellor who thrives in a remote setting and values ethical, high-quality clinical practice. Calm under pressure and confident in your clinical judgement, you’re comfortable supporting a wide range of presenting needs across public and private sector clients. You care deeply about doing the right thing for each individual, while working within clear pathways and short-term models to make a real impact.

What you’ll be doing (in a nutshell):

As an Occupational Health Counsellor within our Vivup Clinical team, you’ll deliver confidential, short-term counselling support via telephone and virtual appointments. Working within Vivup’s clinical pathways and ethical frameworks, you’ll support clients at key moments, providing timely intervention, structured counselling, psychoeducation and signposting, always with the client’s best interests at heart.

Day-to-day you can expect to:

• Deliver single-session interventions, in-the-moment support calls and structured short-term counselling
• Provide virtual and telephone counselling in line with Vivup’s clinical delivery model
• Complete clinical assessments, manage risk and deliver high-quality sessions
• Conduct telephone assessments and refer clients for onward psychological support where appropriate
• Offer psychoeducation, resources and signposting to external agencies
• Manage elevated-risk calls with confidence and professionalism
• Support Occupational Health pathways, including short-term counselling and initial and discharge reports
• Work collaboratively with line managers and HR teams when needed
• Maintain accurate clinical records and ensure CORE-Net data is fully completed and compliant
• Adhere to SOPs, policies, GDPR and ethical frameworks, raising risks or improvements where identified
• Attend team meetings, line management meetings and clinical supervision in line with BACP guidelines
• Take ownership of your wellbeing, CPD and ongoing professional growth

To be successful, you’ll have:

• A Diploma (minimum Level 4) or Postgraduate qualification in Counselling and/or Psychotherapy
• Registered or Accredited membership with BACP or NCS
• At least two years’ counselling experience
• An Enhanced DBS
• Experience delivering telephone and virtual counselling
• Confidence working within short-term, solution-focused models
• Experience within EAP clinical delivery or a multidisciplinary clinical environment
• A trauma-informed approach and strong risk assessment skills
• Solid IT capability, including virtual platforms, clinical systems and secure record keeping
• The ability to manage your own caseload, delivering up to 25 client-facing hours per week (full time)

Bonus points if you bring:

• Additional training in trauma, suicide prevention or short-term therapeutic work
• Experience delivering group work, training sessions or support groups
• Knowledge of CORE-Net and clinical report writing
• A proactive, reflective approach to supervision and continuous improvement

Please note, all applicants must be legally entitled to accept and perform work in the UK and all positions are subject to an enhanced DBS check.

Why Perkbox?

In 2025, Perkbox and Vivup came together under one name: the new and evolved Perkbox.

We joined forces to create something bigger and better - a single, unified platform built to care for, connect with, and celebrate employees in all areas of life. With more than 20 years of combined experience across public, private, SME and corporate sectors, we’re now supporting over 4 million employees across 7,500 organisations.

From access to expert mental health services to help with the cost of everyday essentials, our expanded range of benefits and wellbeing tools meets people where they are - at work and beyond.

Together, we’re redefining what employee benefits can be. And we’re just getting started.

The Interview Process

Our interview process involves 3 main stages:

• Application
• 30 minutecall with a member of the TA team
• 60-minute video call with Hiring Manager and one other team member

Our average process takes around 2-3 weeks, but we will always work around your availability. You will have the chance to speak to our recruitment team at various points during your process. If you have any specific questions ahead of this, please contact us on [e-mail]

We’re committed to being an inclusive employer and creating a fair workplace for all. We encourage applications from candidates across all backgrounds, circumstances, ages, disabilities, ethnicities, religions or beliefs, gender identities, or sexual orientations.

We're happy to offer reasonable adjustments during our hiring process. Just let us know, and we'll make it work for you. Your comfort and success matter to us!