Practitioner Counsellor

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Greater Lincolnshire; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS pension scheme

Competitive annual leave

Car leasing scheme

Free eye tests

Salary sacrifice scheme

Discounts on retailers

Job summary

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting for two Band 5 posts within the Healthy Minds Lincolnshire service, covering Grantham and Spalding. The roles involve working with children and young people on emotional wellbeing needs, delivering evidence-based therapies, and collaborating with education and universal services.

Posts are full-time with flexible working and a hybrid team setup during a service transformation period.

Qualifications

• Diploma in counselling (therapeutic) required.
• Registered with an NHS recognised register for counsellors.

Responsibilities

• Provide evidence-based therapeutic interventions for children and young people with emotional wellbeing needs.
• Work across Grantham and Spalding areas within a hybrid team.
• Travel around the Lincolnshire county as required by service needs.
• Liaise with education providers and universal services to support holistic care.

Education

Diploma in counselling

Registered with an NHS recognised register for counsellors

Job description

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Healthy Minds Lincolnshire. We are recruiting to two posts: one covering Grantham and the surrounding area, and one covering Spalding and the surrounding area.

Healthy Minds Lincolnshire supports children and young people aged 0-19 who are presenting with emotional wellbeing or mental health problems, which are of a low level of complexity and/or intensity, by offering a variety of evidence-based interventions. It will also involve providing liaison and consultation to education providers and universal services.

This is advertised as full-time posts operating Monday to Friday 9am-5pm, however other working patterns can be considered and base can be negotiated.

Please note that, as we are currently undergoing service transformation work, this post will be part of a new hybrid team that is bringing together the existing Healthy Minds Lincolnshire (HML) and Mental Health Support Teams (MHST). The name of the hybrid teams/service is to be Healthy Minds Lincolnshire.

Main duties of the job

Healthy Minds Lincolnshire work with children and young people on a variety of emotional wellbeing needs including but not limited to: anxiety, low mood, self-harm, self-esteem, and anger.

This is an exciting opportunity for motivated and highly organised individuals with a passion for children and young people's emotional wellbeing to help shape the Hybrid Emotional Wellbeing Service.

You should be able to travel around this large rural county and be able to work flexibly according to the needs of the service. You will need to have knowledge and experience of delivering evidence-based therapeutic interventions.

You will be expected to be familiar with children's safeguarding procedures in Lincolnshire and demonstrate good working relationships with other professionals to enable the provision of holistic care to children, young people and their families.

You should possess a Level 5 Diploma in Counselling, be registered with a professional body and have experience of working therapeutically with Children and Young People.

About us

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Details

Date posted: 23 October 2026

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 5

Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year per annum

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number: 274-12284-SP

Job locations: Grantham and Spalding, Monson Street, Grantham or Spalding, NG31 9DF, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.

When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:

• Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy
• Competitive annual leave allowance
• Car leasing scheme
• NHS pension scheme
• Free eye tests
• Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Diploma in counselling (therapeutic)
• Registered with an NHS recognised register for counsellors

Desirable

• Post qualification courses in childcare practice or therapeutic work with children and families
• Good understanding of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and/or Solution Focused Therapy
• Training qualification

Experience

Essential

• Significant experience of working with people with mental health needs, including those with emotional wellbeing needs
• Experience of delivering evidence-based interventions in a one-to-one and/or group setting
• Experience of providing training to professionals and children and young people (or able to demonstrate aptitude)
• Good knowledge of universal children's services
• Ability to manage own caseload and time

Desirable

• Significant experience of working with children and young people who have mental health or emotional wellbeing needs
• Experience of delivering therapeutic interventions
• Local knowledge of children's services
• Experience of delivering training or group interventions
• Experience of providing line management and or supervision

Skills

Essential

• Sound knowledge of Child Care legislation and Safeguarding
• Good knowledge of current local and national strategies concerning Children's emotional wellbeing, Children's Services, and mental health
• Good understanding of child and adolescent development and risk management of young people in crisis
• Ability to work in partnership with universal services to provide the best possible outcomes for children and young people
• Ability to work both as a member of a team and autonomously and to manage own and other colleagues' anxieties
• Sound knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of Information Governance principles
• Highly developed communication skills
• Ability to delegate whilst maintaining overall responsibility for service users care, where appropriate
• Highly motivated & able to engage with service users & carers to improve outcomes
• Ability to be creative and adapt interventions to different age groups and abilities

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name: Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Employer's website: https://www.lpft.nhs.uk/

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact: Clinical Lead, Carolyn Stubbs, [e-mail], 07966181138