This Band 6 counsellor post sits within 14 Arches, the staff psychology and counselling service at Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. The work centres on short-term counselling for staff facing work-related concerns, alongside facilitating wellbeing groups and delivering training and presentations about the service. The service is expanding, and the post carries line management from a Joint Service Lead along with regular clinical supervision and team reflective practice. Applicants need a counselling qualification and accreditation aligned to the SCoPEd framework.
What the job involves
- Deliver short-term counselling to NHS staff for a range of presenting issues
- Assess clients with multiple and complex issues, choose therapeutic interventions, and make and facilitate referrals to specialist services
- Carry out safety assessments, formulations and safety plans for individual clients
- Manage safeguarding concerns and share information in line with local and national policy
- Contribute to developing and delivering psychologically informed groups that promote staff wellbeing
- Deliver service presentations and teaching or training sessions as service need requires
- Provide induction and in-service training to pre-registration counsellors and trainees
- Contribute to service evaluation, audit and research
- Contribute to service development, identify areas for improvement and propose changes to delivery and working practices
- Attend and contribute to team meetings
- Undertake other duties reasonably required at the grade, at the initial place of work or other Trust establishments
What’s required
Qualifications
- Counselling qualification and experience aligned with SCoPEd Column B or C
Registration & licences
- Accreditation with a counselling body identified in the SCoPEd framework
Experience
- Experience delivering counselling interventions to adults with a range of presentations
Skills & knowledge
- Knowledge and experience of a range of counselling approaches
Other
- Clear interest in and commitment to psychological wellbeing for NHS staff
- Openness, honesty, compassion and empathy
- Actively promotes equality, diversity and inclusion in practice
Nice to have
- Training and/or experience in providing supervision
- Knowledge and/or experience of working with clients from diverse backgrounds
- Experience working within NHS and/or mental health settings
- Experience of providing group-based interventions
- Experience in teaching or training
- Experience working with complexity and a range of clinical severity
- Commitment to showing leadership and motivating and inspiring the team
- Enthusiasm to engage people who do not typically access support, working with the workforce
What’s offered
- Regular supervision from a psychologist in the service
- Monthly reflective practice within the team
- Access to the Psychological Professions Network, with regular CPD meetings and organisational support
- Access to a Community of Practice for counsellors working in NHS settings
- Trust is an accredited living wage employer
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
