Face to Face Counsellor

Location: Based in Halton 21 hours a week (3 days)

Kooth is a fast-growing business with a social purpose. Our mission is to provide welcoming and effective digital mental health support. Working in partnership with the NHS, we are already the UK’s largest digital mental health platform for young people aged 10-25 and adults.

Key Components

• Offering face to face counselling and emotional wellbeing support to 11-25 year olds - 60%
• Clinical administration and CAMHS liaison - 20%
• Attending inhouse clinical support, supervision and training - 10%
• Attending management supervision and meetings including online meetings - 10%

Role Objective

Offer face to face counselling and emotional wellbeing support to children and young people and management of own caseload.

Responsibilities

• Providing face to face counselling or psychotherapy, support and advice to children and young people within the clinical and operational model.
• To work with young people with low and moderate mental health needs.
• To refer suitable young people to Kooth online counselling.
• To refer to services in the young person’s local authority, particularly where specialist services are required or where Safeguarding concerns are noted.
• To provide information for parents/carers and professionals wishing to refer young people to the Kooth service.
• Assessing and management of the risks and needs of each service user you interact with.
• Appropriately signposting and completion of referrals as required.
• Management of your own caseload.
• Providing short and mid-term therapeutic structured support and interventions to help with physical, emotional and mental health issues and distress.
• Providing therapeutic structured support and interventions for those with low and moderate mental health needs.
• Work within the professional ethical frameworks laid out by the BACP or equivalent.
• Performing all duties in line with relevant compliance, legal requirements and internal policies with particular reference to children, young people and adult safeguarding and protection, and data protection legislation.
• Maintain accurate case notes and records using Kooth approved systems and processes.
• Liaise with other professionals/services either internally or externally around referrals and safeguarding issues and concerns.
• To attend external meetings if necessary with regards to a particular young person you may be working with.
• Maintain accurate information about shift duties and activity via the scheduling and rota system.
• Attend and effectively contribute to clinical supervision and other clinical support.
• Commit to our mandatory in-house training and continuing professional development opportunities.
• Attend and effectively contribute to team meetings and other key organisational meetings.
• Attend and effectively contribute to management supervision to review clinical work and overall performance against agreed work schedules (KPIs).

Essential

• A relevant professional qualification in Counselling and Psychotherapy at level 4 or equivalent (minimum) recognised by BACP, UKCP, NCS, COSCA or equivalent.
• Hold registered status with the BACP (MBACP reg.) or equivalent level registration with a recognised UK Counselling and Psychotherapy awarding body (NCS, UKCP, COSCA).
• Accreditation-eligibility with a recognised UK Counselling and Psychotherapy awarding body (NCS, UKCP, COSCA, etc.).
• A minimum of 450 completed supervised clinical practice hours working as a qualified and clinically supervised Counsellor/Psychotherapist.
• Experience and knowledge of using psychological wellbeing assessment tools, outcome measures and questionnaires (PHQ9, GAD7, CORE-OM, WEMWBS, etc).
• Experience in providing counselling and/or mental health support to adults in face-to-face settings.
• Experience in safeguarding and child protection, and clear knowledge and understanding of adult safeguarding and child protection policies and legislation.

Desirable

• Suicide Prevention and Self-Harm Mitigation Training.
• Safeguarding and risk management interventions training.

At Kooth, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace that values and embraces the unique contributions of every individual. We believe in equal opportunities for all, regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression or sexual orientation.

Request for Reasonable Adjustments: We are dedicated to providing reasonable adjustments to applicants and employees with disabilities or individuals who require accommodations to participate in the application process, interviews, or job-related tasks.

Kooth plc is committed to our responsibilities for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We are committed to recruiting candidates who share this commitment to safeguarding, and therefore we apply robust recruitment and selection procedures to ensure that the people selected are right for the job, and that all candidates are appropriately screened prior to appointment.