Counsellor

3 months ago


Blackpool, United Kingdom Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

The YoutherapY team (Part of Options4cyp), is continuing to expand. We now have an opportunity for a qualified counsellor, with experience of counselling children and young people, to become part of an innovative Young People’s team based in Blackpool.

You will be joining a well-established team of therapists, primary mental health workers, and assistant practitioners. You will be providing assessment and counselling for young people aged 11-25 who have psychological and emotional difficulties.

You will be working alongside the Resilience Team in Blackpool and our main office in the centre of Blackpool will also be a base for the post, but most of the therapeutic work will take place in local schools. Some evening and weekend working may be required.

Informal enquiries are welcome and should be directed to Tracy Heaton on 01253 955858.

To provide a high-quality counselling service to children and young people aged 11-25 at YoutherapY's main office in Blackpool (with the option to work in schools and other community venues across the Fylde Coast). Who have been referred with a range of generic issues and mild to moderate mental health problems. Working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the NHS; team policies and procedures; and the Thrive Framework.

To provide advice and consultation on client’s care to professionals and non-counselling colleagues including school staff and other referrers.

To utilise research skills for audit policy and service development and research within the areas served by the team.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is ideally situated just a forty five minute drive from Manchester. The Trust provides services to the 440,000 residents of Blackpool, Fylde & Wyre and North Lancashire, as well as specialist tertiary care for Cardiac and Haematology patients.

As one of the United Kingdom’s largest coastal resort, Blackpool has plenty to offer its residents - it’s not just a good place to work; it’s a great place to live. In addition to its bustling centre and historic seafront, the town is world famous for its many attractions, including the famous Blackpool Tower. Blackpool also offers a number of scenic cycling routes round our local parks and across the surrounding countryside, as well as boasting panoramic views of the coast on its picturesque Promenade. Further afield, Blackpool also benefits from less than three-hour connections via rail to Edinburgh in the north and London in the south.

To exercise professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients who self-refer or are referred by families/carers, school staff, GPs and other appropriate health and social care professionals.

To assess clients presenting with complex personal difficulties including those arising from mild to moderate mental health difficulties, based on accurate understanding and utilising a conceptual framework of the clients’ difficulties.

To make decisions regarding suitability for counselling, with particular regard to issues of risk, and referral onward to other specialist services, using trauma informed therapeutic decisions.

To formulate and implement counselling and treatment plans with clients, normally within a brief structured time frame or a contracted number of sessions.

To exercise sound theoretical knowledge of the processes of counselling and based on evidence of efficacy, to employ a range of short-term counselling interventions to meet the needs of the referred client.

To be able to work with a range of client presentations, including ambivalence and resistance, in order to facilitate clients’ ability to explore a range of life issues which are frequently of a distressing emotional nature.

To provide regular information to referrers, about the treatment process and outcome, initial and ongoing risk assessments, making appropriate disclosure and referral onward where necessary.

To communicate and liaise where appropriate with all other professionals involved in the individual client’s treatment and ongoing emotional wellbeing and mental health care.

To provide such information reports as are required in order to facilitate effective communication with referring agencies and commissioners.


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