Counsellor - Part Time (Permanent) Position

6 days ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Optima Health Full time
Job Title: Accredited Counsellor

Location: Hybrid remote in London

Salary: £40,000 per annum, pro rata if part time

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Monday – Friday. Minimum of 3 days per week.

This role requires high level security clearance.

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Accredited Counsellor to join our team at Optima Health. As a Counsellor, you will provide support to our clients, facilitating support groups and delivering short-term counselling sessions. You will also work closely with our Clinical Lead to provide crisis counselling and trauma interventions.

Key Responsibilities
  • Facilitate support groups with officers & staff, focused on various different mental health topics, such as bereavement, substance misuse etc.
  • Provide crisis counselling based on case-by-case need as specified by the Clinical Lead
  • Deliver trauma interventions, including major and critical incidents, working within Optima and MPS policy
  • Manage own caseload, delivering short-term (up to 6 sessions) of counselling for clients with personal or work-related issues, who are off sick or at work, with a goal of returning staff back to recuperative/full duties
  • Intermittent, longer-term, on-going 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
  • Deliver trauma interventions, including major and critical incidents, working within Optima and MPS policy
  • 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 focussed therapy
  • Experience delivering trauma focused counselling
  • Excellent leadership training scheme available if you would like to progress to leadership
Benefits
  • 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
  • Buy and sell holiday scheme
  • Clinical Training Academy
  • Professional Registration fees paid
  • Health Cash Plan
  • Pension Scheme
  • Career progression opportunities
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Eye care test vouchers
  • Perkbox retail reward and discount scheme
  • Life assurance
  • Annual Share Save Scheme
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 combined and complementary capability means we can offer unrivalled clinical expertise and industry leading tailored solutions to our clients.

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.

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