Staff Counsellor

6 months ago

Oldham, United Kingdom Northern Care Alliance NHS Group Full time

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. Together, we’ve a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore. If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond
- **come and take your place with us.**

**Job overview**:
To provide a confidential counselling service to clients of Occupational Health and to the employees of the NCA Trust or nearby contracted organisations. To assist in developing, providing and evaluating the service as a whole.

The aim of the NCA Occupational Health Department is to maintain the health and wellbeing of employees, therefore increasing productivity, reducing sickness absence and assisting in the recruitment and retention of employees.

We offer a wide range of services which benefit both staff and managers to help reduce staff sickness absence and to promote a healthy, motivated workforce.

**Main duties of the job**:
To assess, develop and implement the therapeutic interventions to those referred for Counselling.

To exercise professional judgement with regard to the discharge of clients from the service.

To provide counselling at a suitable venue that gives safety and confidentiality for the staff.

To provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information. To continually assess and manage risk.

To participate in policy discussions as relevant to the counselling service at an organizational level

Maintain the strictest confidentiality concerning Occupational Health clients

**Working for our organisation**:
The Northern Care Alliance (NCA) is one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. Launched in April 2017, the NCA serves over one million people across Greater Manchester and employs over 19,000 healthcare professionals across Bury, Rochdale, Salford and Oldham. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. At the NCA, we can offer groupwide, flexible multi-site opportunities, as part of our connected, integrated and engaged team. We believe in saving and improving lives and are passionate about driving forward significant improvements to the provision of safe, high-quality integrated health and social care to our local community. If you share our vision, take your place with us.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
**Person specification**:
**Registration**:
**Essential criteria**:

- BACP Accredited or working towards BACP accreditation or registered with the NMC

**Qualifications**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Diploma in counselling

**Knowledge, Skills and Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Communication skills
- Ability to work under pressure
- Team working
- Ability to deal with sensitive situations tactfully and in a confidential manner
- We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to supporting flexible working for our people wherever possible and all our colleagues are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

**Employer certification / accreditation badges**:
**Applicant requirements**:

- You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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