Senior Counsellor

4 weeks ago


London Borough of Tower Hamlets, United Kingdom Queen Mary University of London Full time

About the Role

We are looking to recruit 2 x FTE (28 hours per week) Senior Counsellors who have significant post qualification clinical experience delivering short term therapeutic interventions and managing risk in a higher education setting. A core part of the role will be to provide skilled and effective line management for counsellors within the service. The counselling team offer a range of therapeutic approaches including psychodynamic, integrative and behavioural work. There are three senior posts in total and each holds a client load that includes more complex presentations. Seniors are involved in triaging, managing risk, liaising with colleagues internal and external and ensuring a professional and containing experience for staff and students.

Please note, 1 post is permanent and 1 of the posts will be offered on a 1 year fixed term basis. ?

About You

Applicants must have an appropriate postgraduate counselling qualification at diploma/Masters level. We are looking for applicants with significant experience of providing short-term counselling or CBT-based interventions to individuals within an institutional setting, managing risk and complex presentations. Queen Mary aims to be the most inclusive university of its kind and we have a very diverse student body. Candidates should have extensive experience working with clients with a diverse range of backgrounds. It is also important the candidate has a good understanding and experience of working with students/young adults. As one of three senior counsellors, you will provide clinical leadership, oversight of clinical risk, and guidance on professional / ethical matters to counsellors within the team.

About the Department

The Advice and Counselling Service is a multidisciplinary student support service offering counselling, mental health and psychological support, psychiatry clinics, sexual assault and harassment advice, welfare advice and immigration advice. The service is one of the constituent departments in the Directorate of Student Experience.

The Advice and Counselling Service currently employs 42 staff plus a small number of counselling trainees and associates.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.


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