Senior Counsellor

4 months ago

Oldbury, United Kingdom Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Full time

**Senior Counsellors - 2 Required**

**Contract **Permanent: _May be required to do Monday to Friday 8am to 8pm Saturday 9-5_

We are looking to recruit a Band 6 Counsellor to Sandwell Healthy Minds IAPT Service. Sandwell Healthy Minds provides a service to people who present in care clusters 1-4, providing step 2 and 3 services through psychological therapy and interventions and we would like to welcome a new counsellor to the team.

The post holder will help with developing the counselling service within Sandwell Healthy Minds and offer clients short term counselling, work towards specific targets and contribute to the development of the service as a whole.

In return we will offer supervision, training and support your continued professional development.

The successful applicant may be based in any of the GP surgeries or other venues in the community within the Sandwell area.

For further information about the post please contact Natalie Tolley - Maternal Team Manager 0121 612 6650

**Main duties of the job**

Offer Telephone Triage assessments and signposting to internal or external services.

To meet KPI targets

To offer short term therapeutic interventions for anxiety and depression

Supervise other members of team

Work on Duty Rota

**Working for our organisation**

Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides specialist mental health, learning disability, and community healthcare services for the population of the Black Country.

Across the whole of the region we provide:

- Adult and older adult mental health services
- Specialist learning disability services
- Mental health services for children and young people
- Community healthcare services for children, young people and families in Dudley

**Person specification**

**Essential criteria**
- Post Graduate level qualification in counselling OR Diploma level 5 qualification in counselling or RMN
- BACP/UKCP accredited or attended an accredited course and working towards completion of accreditation within 12 months
- A minimum of 450 hours counselling experience with a relevant voluntary or statutory organisation, within the last 5 years
- Significant experience with a relevant voluntary or statutory sector organisation
- Experience of carrying out assessments of client’s suitability for counselling
- Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence based

**Desirable criteria**
- Completed or near completion of an IAPT accredited Counselling top-up course
- Experience of developing and running skills groups
- Experience of working in an IAPT service

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £35,392.00-£42,618.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Bereavement leave
- Canteen
- Childcare
- Company car
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Employee mentoring programme
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Flexitime
- Free flu jabs
- Free or subsidised travel
- Free parking
- Gym membership
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Paid volunteer time
- Referral programme
- Relocation assistance
- Sabbatical
- Sick pay
- Transport links
- UK visa sponsorship

Schedule:

- 12 hour shift
- Day shift
- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday
- Overtime
- Weekend availability

**Experience**:

- carrying out assessments of suitability for counselling: 1 year (required)

Licence/Certification:

- Post Graduate level qualification in counselling (required)
- Diploma level 5 qualification in counselling or RMN (required)
- BACP/UKCP accreditation or working towards (required)
- minimum of 450 hours counselling experience in last 5 years (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: 285-5841-MH

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