Primary Care Counsellor

4 weeks ago

Watford, United Kingdom Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Centred Experiential Counselling for Depression(PCE-CfD) or have the appropriate qualifications to be able to attend the training, which we will fund as part of the role.

If needed, the training will be with Metanoia which generally prefers counsellors to have a humanistic background though if you are a psychodynamic counsellor with experience of working humanistically this may also be acceptable.

In line with the National IAPT programme, the Talking Therapies Team provides evidence based therapies for people with mild to moderate mental health problems.

The post requires clients to be seen face to face in Watford and possibly in Borehamwood and virtually using MS Teams, as required and appropriate to the client.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion is very important to our team and we have various initiatives to support and encourage diversity such as representatives in interviews, working groups for ideas to support our clients & cultural competency meetings, to encourage staff conversations to share and learn from other experiences.

We believe that the workforce should reflect the wonderful diversity of our clients, and to support them it is important to continue developing strategies that acknowledge the varying challenges faced and adapt where possible.

Duties and responsibilities are given in details in the job description.

A full time qualified post will require a caseload of 20 clinical hours per week, which will be supported with clinical and caseload supervision and line management supervision.

For all posts, the Trust operates a robust Continuing Professional Development system within a Performance Management framework, including an annual appraisal and CPD review

The South West Herts Wellbeing service are based in Watford and covers Three Rivers, Watford and Hertsmere. The team works in a blend of online and on site working, with some out of hours appointments being required, allowing staff to have some flexibility of working whilst feeling integrated and included as part of a team. The team offers a buddy system to allow you to have more informal support and learning, as part of a full induction into the service.

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
**Our Trust values are**:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?

Then please read on ”

To provide a comprehensive assessment and therapeutic service for adult patients with common mental health problems referred to the IAPT service based on the IAPT counselling for depression modality, working within the context of primary care services.

To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions within the Trust on psychological aspects of risk assessment including risk of self-harm.

To make appropriate use of formal methods for the assessment of patients mental health, including structured and semi-structured interviews, questionnaires, rating scales and guided inquiry methods.

IF UNQUALAFIED TRAINEE, WE WOULD OFFER AS A TRAINING POST 75% OF THE SALARY

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