The Health at Work team is responsible for promoting and maintaining the physical and psychological health and well‑being of the Trust’s staff.
We wish to recruit a qualified counsellor with experience of working in a small team to provide short‑term face‑to‑face counselling to staff. Training in group facilitation, mediation, EMDR and Critical Incident Stress debriefing would also be desirable. You will be based at Broadmoor Occupational Health Department (Crowthorne, Berkshire) and expected to work at St Bernard’s OH department at Ealing as and when required.
You must have or be working towards BACP accreditation or its equivalent. NHS experience is desirable but applicants without NHS experience will also be considered.
Main duties of the job
- To provide a one‑to‑one counselling service to NHS staff in a Health at Work Service.
- To act ethically at all times in accordance with the BACP Ethical Framework for good practice in counselling and psychotherapy.
- To work as an autonomous practitioner within the interdisciplinary team.
- To deliver appropriate training sessions on stress and resilience and effective witness training.
- To use counselling interventions effectively within a quality framework, valuing diversity and working with a trans‑model in all areas.
- To use counselling interventions effectively with a wide range of work‑related and personal issues, including working with frightened or hostile defensive clients.
Person Specification
- Qualifications and Training
- Counselling/psychotherapy training to Diploma/Degree level.
- BACP/UKCP/BPS registered practitioner (equivalent / registration / accreditation).
- Other counselling/therapy certificates e.g., CBT.
- Experience
- Minimum 1 year staff counselling role.
- Minimum 2 years counselling in an organisational setting.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
£45,953 to £54,254 a year (per annum inc all allowances)
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