Counsellor

Lincolnshire Partnership Foundation NHS Trust (LPFT) delivers an NHS Talking Therapies service. An opportunity has arisen for a qualified counsellor Band 5 or Band 6 to join the Lincolnshire Talking Therapies service based in Spalding although you may also be required to cover alternative bases to meet service need. The Service provides evidence-based interventions within a stepped care model, treating people with mild to moderate common mental health problems. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a major national service, which has fundamentally changed the way in which psychological treatments are provided.

**In return we can offer you**:
A well-established, friendly and supportive therapy team.

Personal and Professional Development opportunities.

Regular management and clinical supervision.

Annual appraisal

Early access to our staff wellbeing service and psychology therapies

Excellent working environment.

NHS Pension

NHS benefits

**CLOSING DATE**: 25.02.24

**INTERVIEWS DATE**: 06.03.24

The Band 5 counsellor will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team providing counselling for depression. The post holder will be expected to hold a clinical caseload and will be provided with clinical supervision. The service will provide the relevant training to acquire a qualification in a Talking Therapies modality (cfc/IPT/ccfd).

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

CLINICAL

Screening referrals for service suitability via agreed protocols within the service

Undertake psychological assessments of patients referred to the service. Assessments will include identification of the patient’s problem, comprehensive risk assessment and identification of goals for therapy.

Formulate, implement and evaluate counselling therapy programmes for clients

Adhere to an agreed activity contract relating to the number of client contacts offered, and clinical sessions carried out per week in order to minimise waiting times and ensure treatment delivery remains accessible and convenient

Attend meetings relating to referrals or clients in treatment, where appropriate

Complete all requirements relating to data collection within the service

Keep coherent and contemporaneous records of all clinical activity in line with service protocols

Work closely with other members of the team ensuring appropriate step-up and step-down arrangements are in place to maintain a stepped care approach

TRAINING AND SUPERVISION

To attend CPD and mandatory training provided by the Trust

To attend clinical supervision

To complete one of the IAPT approved modalities within agreed timescale.

PROFESSIONAL

Ensure the maintenance of standards of practice according to the Trust and any regulating, professional and accrediting bodies (eg BPS, UKCP ), and keep up to date on new recommendations/guidelines set by the department of health (e.g. IAPT, National Institute for Clinical Excellence)

Ensure that client confidentiality is protected at all times

Be aware of, and keep up to date with advances in the spheres of counselling and other agreed psychological therapies

Ensure clear professional objectives are identified, discussed and reviewed with senior therapists on a regular basis as part of continuing professional development

Attend clinical/managerial supervision on a regular basis as agreed with Manager

Participate in individual performance review and respond to agreed objectives

Keep up to date all records in relation to Continued Professional Development (CPD) and ensure personal development plan maintains up to date specialist knowledge of latest theoretical and service delivery models/d