Person Centred Experiential Counsellor PCE-CfD - Luton

Essential: You must hold a Counselling Qualification and have completed the Counselling for Depression IAPT Training course and be BACP accredited. Alongside vast experience of working within Mental Health, you'll have a proven ability to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients and working relationships with your colleagues.

In return, you'll enjoy the scope and support to enhance your own life and career too, as you gain the experience and training you need to progress in your career with us. Excellent opportunities for both CPD and clinical innovation are available within the service. You will also be able to make use of our digital platform.

The service operates across a variety of days and hours to include Saturdays and evening work to support our clients when they need it most, therefore we offer flexible working hours to promote a positive work-life balance for our staff. We pay incentivised rates of pay for weekend working and additional hours.

Job summary: We are currently recruiting for exciting opportunities to join Turning Point and be part of our highly successful and innovative NHS Talking Therapies service. Total Wellbeing Luton is an integrated Talking therapies service combining healthy lifestyles and emotional health programmes provided in partnership with Active Luton.

We support people in the local area who are having difficulty in coping and who may be suffering from a common mental illness such as depression, anxiety or phobias. Our approach embeds the notion of wellbeing and recovery and promotes personal responsibility for lifestyle choices and self-management of mental wellbeing.

The service in Luton provides person-centred, holistic and accessible wellbeing services which are flexible and creative, easy to access and navigate and responsive to the needs of local people. The service contributes to tackling inequalities in health through promoting and supporting people to develop healthier behaviours and lifestyles in the context of their own local communities.

Main duties of the job: You will be managing your own caseload providing evidence-based treatments. We offer a high standard of in-house clinical supervision and training with accredited supervisors. We offer regular masterclasses to upskill our therapists and support their career development as well as opportunities to access additional modality training.

In addition to talking therapies, we offer healthy lifestyle programmes including NHS stop smoking, health checks, exercise on referral, social prescription, weight management and support with physical activity for people with long-term health conditions. We provide excellent opportunities for development in this role through access to training around areas of specialism such as supervision, long-term conditions, cultural diversity etc.

About us: As a leading health and social care provider with more than 300 locations across England, we take real pride in the services we offer. We run all of our services on a not-for-profit basis; instead, we invest every penny back into our services and people. We never stop believing in change for the better, and we work constantly to improve the lives of the people we support.

Details: Date posted 15 October 2026. Salary £50,678 to £56,815 a year.

What Benefits Will I Receive? We know reward looks different to each person and so whether it's ways to make your money go further, a culture supporting recognition and celebration, or opportunities to boost your career we want to support you in every way we can with our total reward package that includes: Access to all Active Luton facilities, comprehensive learning and development opportunities, 31 days paid holiday a year, increasing with each year of service up to 33 days, and flexible working solutions to support your work-life balance.