Camfa 14+ Counsellor for Family

5 months ago

Conwy, United Kingdom Adferiad Recovery Full time

**Hours**:37.5 hours per week

**Salary**: £23,365.23 per annum

**Holidays**: 25 days per year plus 8 public holidays (pro rata)

**Based at**: North Wales, base to be discussed on successful interview

Adferiad Recovery delivers a flexible and coordinated response to the exceptional circumstances faced by people with co-occurring mental health and substance use conditions and related issues. Vulnerable people facing complex life challenges need consistent and seamless support to ensure they remain engaged with vital health and wellbeing services - and to prevent them becoming disenfranchised and isolated.

Adferiad Recovery harnesses the talents and experience of long-established and leading Welsh charities CAIS, Hafal and WCADA. Our combined expertise in the fields of substance use, mental health, housing, criminal justice, and employment support enables Adferiad Recovery to meet the needs of our most vulnerable with a single, unified, and comprehensive approach.

**Job Purpose**:
To provide specialist Counselling Service to family and carers of young people with substance use. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service.

**Main Duties and Responsibilities**:

- To explain boundaries of confidentiality, exchange of information and informed consent (including Three Cornered Agreements) to clients.
- To undertake counselling assessments. To be able to recognise common mental health issues, substance misuse issues and draw out relevant information needed for an assessment using skilful and sensitive questioning.
- To provide expertise in a specialist clinical area, undertaking specialist psychological interventions, formulating mutually agreed contracts for counselling with clients, establishing, maintaining, and disengaging from relationships with the client group. To select and deliver evidence-based client centred psychological treatments to meet the needs of the client group.
- Monitoring outcome and modifying and adapting interventions, drawing on a range of theoretical approaches.
- Counselling to be delivered in accordance with relevant NICE Guidelines.
- To undertake and manage own client caseload.
- To be accountable for own clinical decisions and professional actions in consultation with clinical supervisor.
- To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans.
- To communicate skilfully and sensitively highly complex and sensitive information, considering sensory and cultural barriers to communication.
- To adhere to BACP Ethical Framework for Good Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy.
- To work in accordance with Adferiad Recovery’s Policies and Procedures, All Wales Child Protection Procedures and North Wales Vulnerable Adults Protocol.
- To refer clients to other services as appropriate. When making referrals to other services and agencies, to do this in a manner consistent with the specific referral processes used by those agencies.
- To undertake clinical administrative tasks and reports relating to clients when necessary.

**Essential Requirements**:

- Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling (as a minimum).
- Experience undertaking assessments.
- Experience of working with clients with common mental health problems.
- Experience working with young people.
- Experience of risk assessment and risk management procedures.
- Full UK Driving License and use of a car **or** ability to attend work and move between clinics efficiently using public transport.

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

**Salary**: £23,265.23 per year

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Company events
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- Referral programme
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- North Wales: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- Support Worker: 1 year (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- Driving Licence (preferred)
- Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: AC146

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