Practitioner Counsellor

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; South Kesteven; Hybrid; GBP 30.000 - 42.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Healthy Minds Lincolnshire seeks two counsellor-therapists to support children and young people aged 0–19 with emotional wellbeing needs. The role involves delivering evidence-based therapies, liaising with schools and universal services, and contributing to a hybrid team transforming community mental health support across Grantham, Spalding and surrounding areas.

You will hold a Level 5 Diploma in Counselling, be registered with a professional body, and have experience working therapeutically

Qualifikationen

• Knowledge of delivering evidence-based therapeutic interventions.
• Familiar with children's safeguarding procedures in Lincolnshire.
• Experience of working therapeutically with Children and Young People.
• Willingness to travel around the county and work flexibly.

Aufgaben

• Deliver evidence-based therapeutic interventions to children and young people aged 0–19.
• Liaise with schools, education providers and universal services.
• Work as part of the new hybrid Healthy Minds Lincolnshire team.
• Travel around Lincolnshire to meet service needs and provide outreach support.

Kenntnisse

Evidence-based therapeutic Intervent

Ausbildung

Level 5 Diploma in Counselling

Jobbeschreibung

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.

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.

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.

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.