Student Counsellor

**Job Description**:
**Job Title**:Student Counsellor

**Posting Start Date**:16/04/2025

**Job Id**:981

**School/Department**:Student & Academic Services

**Work Arrangement**:Full Time (On site)

**Contract Type**:Permanent

**Salary per annum (£)**:£ 38,249.00 - £46,735

**Closing Date**:30/04/2025

The University of Sheffield is a remarkable place to work. Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Their diverse backgrounds, abilities and beliefs make Sheffield a world-class university.

We offer a fantastic range of benefits including a highly competitive annual leave entitlement (with the ability to purchase more), a generous pensions scheme, flexible working opportunities, a commitment to your development and wellbeing, a wide range of retail discounts, and much more.

**Overview**

The Student Mental Health, Counselling, Therapies and Wellbeing Service is a confidential service for students with ongoing or persistent difficulties who need support to help them get back on track with their academic studies. The immediate team comprises the Counselling Service Manager; permanent psychotherapists and counsellors; placement provision for counselling and psychotherapy trainees, Dclinpsych trainees, and honorary counsellors and psychotherapists. The clinical team is supported by an Administration and Reception team.

The Service is committed to contributing to the overall (physical, psychological and social) wellbeing and opportunities for success of all students in the context of their academic studies.

**Main duties and responsibilities**
- Offer time limited counselling and psychotherapy to students of the university as part of a multi-disciplinary and multi-modality team.
- Plan and organise a varied caseload, which may include delivering trauma informed therapy as part of the University’s sexual violence pathway, to meet student demand in a flexible and ethical manner, contributing to the team’s shared casework.
- Contribute to the service trainee placement provision
- Manage and monitor safeguarding issues in line with the policies of the University.
- Maintain client records appropriately in keeping with Data Protection and confidentiality policies.
- Work effectively in accordance with university clinical governance, BACP/ UKCP codes of ethics and service accreditation requirements.
- Assess, manage and monitor risk, taking appropriate action as and when required in line with local and wider organisational clinical governance policies.
- Effectively engage with regular clinical supervision, managerial supervision, and reflexive conversations and meetings with other clinical staff.
- Contribute to service planning and delivery of student wellbeing events to improve awareness and timely access to student support.
- Contribute to development and maintenance of self-help resources.
- Develop an excellent understanding of internal and external sources of student support and be able to signpost students when appropriate.
- As a member of our Professional Staff, you will be expected to demonstrate a commitment to the professional behaviours set out in the Sheffield Professional Framework.
- In order to offer better access for students who may not be able to attend appointments during core hours due to academic placements or employment, the post holder may be required to work extended hours one day per week in order to meet service demand.
- Carry out other duties, commensurate with the grade and remit of the post.

**Person Specification**

**Essential criteria**

**Desirable criteria**

**Further Information**

**Grade**:7

**Salary: From**£38,249 - £46,735 depending on experience.

**Work arrangement**:1**Full-time position and 1 part-time position available

**Line manager**:Counselling and Therapies Service Manager

**Direct reports**:N/A

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**Next steps in the recruitment process**

**Our vision and strategic plan**

We are the University of Sheffield. This is our vision: sheffield.ac.uk/vision ().

**What we offer**
- A minimum of 41**days annual leave including bank holiday and closure days (pro rata) with the ability to purchase more.
- Flexible working opportunities, including hybrid working for some roles.
- Generous pension scheme.
- A wide range of discounts and rewards on shopping, eating out and travel.
- A variety of staff networks, providing opportunities for social interaction, peer support and personal development (for example, Race Equality, LGBT+, Women’s and Parent’s networks).
- Recognition Awards to reward staff who go above and beyond in their role.
- A range of generous family-friendly policies
- paid time off for parenting and caring emergencies
- support for those going through the menopause
- paid time off and support for fertility treatment
- and more

We are a Disability Confident Employer. If you have a disability and meet the essential criteria for this job you will be invited to take part in the next stage of the select