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Counsellor and Mental Health Specialist

2 months ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Optima Health Full time
About the Role

Optima Health is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Counselling and Mental Health Counsellor to join our team. As a key member of our occupational health team, you will provide confidential counselling and related proactive functions to staff and officers within the context of a multi-specialist occupational health team.

Key Responsibilities
  • Provide crisis counselling based on case-by-case need as specified by the Clinical Lead.
  • Facilitate support groups with officers & staff, focused on various mental health topics, such as bereavement, substance misuse etc.
  • Deliver trauma interventions, which will include major and critical incidents as reported, working within Optima and MPS policy.
  • Manage own caseload, delivering short-term (up to 6 sessions) counselling for clients with personal or work-related issues, who are off sick or at work, with the goal of returning staff back to recuperative/full duties.
  • Intermittent, longer-term, ongoing support to suspended officers.
  • Advice/support to managers about counselling services and managing a duty mailbox for urgent assessment of clients.
  • Psychological risk assessment for referrals received from managers and other wider occupational health departments and act according to MPS risk management protocol.
  • Offer practical problem-solving guidance and signpost to other external agencies or internal multi-specialist occupational health team, which may include delivering presentations.
Requirements
  • At least 3 years' experience of working in a counselling service, occupational health or related service offering short-term solution focused therapy.
  • Experience delivering trauma-focused counselling.
  • Excellent leadership training scheme available if you would like to progress to leadership.
About Optima Health

Optima Health is the UK market leader in the provision of Occupational Health and Wellbeing services. Formed by the combination of three leading businesses (Optima Health, TP Health and Healthwork), the new Optima Health is more than the consolidation of the individual legacy businesses. Our aim is to improve the health and wellbeing of the UK workforce by supporting healthy high performance in our client organisations, helping them to achieve their full potential through their people.