Syp - Occupational Health Counsellor - April 2023

4 weeks ago


Sheffield, United Kingdom South Yorkshire Police Full time

**Department**:People and Organisational Development

**Location**:Escafeld House, Sheffield

**Salary**:£32,409 - £37,074 (with Market rate supplement to £37,953)

**Hours**: 37 hours per week (part time hours considered)

**Contract Type**:Permanent

**Role Purpose**:
The OH Counsellor role resides within the Wellbeing Team and is critical to the core function of the overall wellbeing service. The role is required to provide psychological support for the workforce in the form of counselling, psychological health screening and health promotion services. Support can either be through the direct provision of appropriate services or via signposting to agreed external services. Specific areas for therapy include post-traumatic stress, work related stress, bereavement, depression, anxiety, ill health and psychological resilience strategies.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Delivery of comprehensive quality therapy services in line with the South Yorkshire Police policies and good practice guidance of governing bodies including BACP.
- Conduct appropriate short term, work-based therapy, wellbeing and risk assessment services in line with policy, including signposting to services, where required.
- To work within a trauma informed framework focussing on occupational health and wellbeing in line with South Yorkshire Police policies and procedures.
- Conduct Psychological Health Surveillance (PHS) including structured interviews as part of the PHS programme e.g., Sexual Offence/Child Abuse Unit, Traffic, Family Liaison Officers, Criminal Investigations Department (CID) etc.
- Plan, prioritise and manage own caseload within agreed timescales and frequency as indicated in the Force service agreement.

**Skills and experience**:

- Must have a Diploma/degree/postgraduate qualification in clinical counselling therapy.
- Have attained BACP accreditation (or be eligible for this) with at least 3 years relevant post qualifying counselling experience, preferably in a Police Occupational Health workplace setting.
- Qualified and experienced in at least two other modalities such as trauma focussed therapy, TF-Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or EMDR.
- Experience with assessing psychological risk
- Experience with Psychological Health Surveillance is desirable
- Experienced in managing own case load, keeping accurate comprehensive records, assessment interviews, maintenance of waiting list, allocation of appointments and signposting to external services as appropriate.
- Experience of working in specific areas of therapy including risk assessment, safeguarding, trauma, work related stress, depression, anxiety, ill health, bereavement and psychological resilience strategies

**Benefits**:
We offer generous entitlements and supportive policies to enable a better work-life balance, some of which are listed below:

- Generous annual leave allowance
- Flexible and hybrid working
- Generous ‘family’ leave
- Voluntary CPD Events for all staff to allow continuous development
- Mentoring & Coaching Scheme
- Paid Professional Subscriptions when relevant to role
- Access to a range of occupational health facilities
- Generous pension scheme
- Employee assistance service (accessible 24/7)
- Additional benefits for Westfield Health members
- Cycle to work scheme
- Sports and Social Club

**Eligibility**:
**Appearance & Standards**:
SYP is committed to striking a proportionate balance between self-expression and the need to maintain role sensitive professional standards in dress and appearance. Officers, staff and volunteers of South Yorkshire Police are permitted to have tattoos visible whilst on duty provided the tattoo is not considered to be unacceptable or otherwise inappropriate. Tattoos will be reviewed as part of the recruitment and selection process.

**South Yorkshire Police’s Key Values**:
Please find attached information sheet on South Yorkshire Police’s Key Values. The force has a particular focus on three areas, Fairness, Integrity and Trust. Under each of these three headings there are key behaviours we expect all employees to adhere to.

**Smarter ways of Working**:
South Yorkshire Police is committed to developing working practices which assist staff to balance their personal and professional lives, whilst meeting the needs of the organisation. This in turn enables SYP to provide an outstanding service to the community.

There are 3 different categories as part of this which are: Fixed, Field and Hybrid.

This role has been evaluated as a Hybrid role.

Hybrid: Applicable when the work can be undertaken at any location, whether that be a SYP building or from home.

**Closing Date**:
Thursday 27 April 2023 at 23:55

Closing dates are not normally extended, other than in exceptional circumstances and agreement is made between the Talent Acquisition Manager and the Line Manager for the role.

**Contact point for applicants**:
For further information about the role, please contact Bev Bond on 07464986552.

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