Children and young people's counsellor

4 days ago

Forth ML, United Kingdom All Minds Full time

Job Description – All Minds

All Minds is a Scottish mental health charity that provides counselling and therapeutic services for children, young people, adults, and families. We provide counselling from our centres in Kirkintilloch and Falkirk, as well as in several schools across Scotland. All Minds is inclusive to everyone and open to anyone who needs the support we offer.

All Minds is seeking to recruit an exceptional, qualified counsellor on an employed basis for 1 day per week for a fixed term of 3 months, with the possibility of a further 3 month extension. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 1 year's experience working with children and/or young people in a counselling setting.

Working hours are one day per week from 8.45am-3.45pm within a primary school in South Lanarkshire. The day of the week is flexible depending on candidate availability. This is an ideal position for someone wishing to complement their private practice, or other counselling role.

The successful applicant will be required to deliver counselling sessions within school settings and have own car for travel.

We aim to help children and young people develop the tools necessary to navigate through a range of difficult and complex experiences. Candidates must have a Diploma in counselling as a minimum, as well as at least 1 year's experience of counselling children/young people and a knowledge of child protection and confidentiality procedures.

The wage for this position is £25,625 FTE.

Duties and Key Responsibilities

  • Provide one-to-one counselling sessions to school aged children and young people (5-12 years)
  • Carry out assessment interviews with new referrals and evaluate appropriate counselling methods
  • Liaise with parents and carers and school staff where appropriate
  • Develop and maintain adequate records of clinical work
  • Fulfil professional supervision requirements - supervision is included in-house by All Minds by one of our qualified clinical supervisors
  • Contribute to the evaluation of the service by using a range of clinical wellbeing, evaluation and measurement tools
  • Comply with all policies, procedures and service standards
  • Abide by All Minds' Child Protection and Safeguarding procedures
  • Undertake relevant training to continue professional development
  • Keep informed of needs and issues that affect young people
  • Build healthy relationships with parents, school staff, as well as outside agencies and referral organisations
  • Excellent and proven organisational and communication skills (written and verbal)
  • Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships
  • Ability to manage own caseload
  • Ability to work on own initiative and be self-motivated
  • Demonstrate a sound sense of personal integrity and ethics
  • Collaborative working style and strong work ethic
  • PVG scheme member
  • Membership of an appropriate counselling organisation (BABCP, BACP, COSCA, PTUK or similar)

Job Types: Part-time, Fixed term contract

Contract length: 3 months

Pay: £25,625.00 per year

Expected hours: 6.5 per week

Benefits:

  • Company pension
  • Free parking

Education:

  • Diploma of Higher Education (required)

Licence/Certification:

  • Driving Licence (required)

Work Location: In person

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