Loss Counsellor and Group Supervisor

Job description

Job responsibilities

Specific responsibilities:

Clinical:

• Provide psychotherapy to patients who experiences significant losses (in a wide understanding of the term), which involve six weekly 50 minutes sessions following BACP guidelines
• Provide triage and assessment to establish needs, risks and safeguarding issues.
• Provide professional clinical group supervision to volunteer bereavement counsellors
• Undertake therapeutic sessions and manage own caseload.
• Deliver talking therapy via various modalities (mainly face to face but also telephone and video)
• Demonstrate assertiveness and be able to maintain and manage professional boundaries.
• Appropriately record and share accurate patient notes.
• Attend both clinical and managerial supervision meetings
• Use an agreed outcome evaluation system to monitor clinical outcomes for individual patients for data collection and establish the services' effectiveness.
• Work within the boundaries of the organisation's clinical governance framework
• Adhere to an agreed number of patient contacts offered following BACP guidelines and clinical sessions carried out per week to minimise waiting times and ensure treatment delivery remains accessible, convenient, and within the service guidelines.

Service Development:

• You will be actively involved in the development of the service
• You will liaise with other services and build working relationships
• You will demonstrate flexibility and critical thinking in adjusting to any changes required in developing the project while offering your feedback and suggestions.
• Complete all requirements relating to data collection and coherent records of all clinical activity are kept in line with service protocols
• Attend any required training and implement it in your clinical practice

CPD/Supervision:

• Attend supervision for professional growth and skills efficiency.
• Take part in mandatory training provided by Bereavement Therapy Service.
• Attend Clinical Reflective Group
• Maintain an active engagement with current developments in the field of psychology and related disciplines and utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support practice in individual work and work with other team members.
• Work within values and ethos of Bereavement Therapy Service
• Maintain and work within relevant national professional guidelines related to professional registration/regulatory body

Safeguarding Adults & Children:

• Ensure Safeguarding procedures are adhered to, recognising action concerning the safety of children and vulnerable adults. Any concerns must be assessed and reported to the appropriate external organisation and adhere to Bereavement Therapy Service's Policies and procedures
• To adhere to relevant national guidance and standards for safeguarding/child protection.

Equality, inclusion and diversity:

• Understand that it is your responsibility to adhere to organisational policies and procedures when dealing with equality and diversity issues.
• Adhere to Equal Opportunities Policy and treat all patients, relatives, carers and staff with respect, dignity and understanding.
• Understand the needs and be sensitive to the cultural backgrounds of patients when dealing with telephone enquiries.

External interests:

• Each staff member of Bereavement Therapy Service is responsible for ensuring that any external interest they have does not conflict with their posts' duties and must disclose the external interest if this is likely to occur, or if they are in doubt about a possible conflict of interest.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Counselling / psychotherapy qualification of at least diploma level recognised by an appropriate regulatory body (e.g. BACP,UKCP).
• Be a member of one or more regulatory body (e.g. BACP, UKCP).
• Supervisory qualifications.

Experience

Essential

• Experience in working with bereaved patients with a compassionate approach to understanding the impact of bereavement.
• Experience in case management.
• Extensive experience in supporting people who pose risks to self or others & safeguarding issues.
• Experience of working within the local mental health systems.
• Experience of health and safety principles, policies and procedures (within the context of service provision).

Desirable

• Experience of managing volunteers.
• Experience of facilitating / leading groups.

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Excellent therapeutic skills.
• Knowledge of the broader mental health systems and pathways.
• Excellent communication skills including highly developed interpersonal skills including listening, empathy and advocacy.
• The ability to work well in a team and autonomously, including the ability to be assertive and maintain professional boundaries.
• The ability to work autonomously and to plan, prioritise, work under pressure and adapt to new models of working Excellent IT skills.
• Ability to keep concise and accurate records and produce informative well written reports.
• A commitment to undertake appropriate training and professional development.

Desirable

• Knowledge of Primary Care.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Six Degrees Social Enterprise

Address

Six Degrees Social Enterprise

Albert Street

Eccles

Manchester

M30 0BL

Employer's website

http://six-degrees.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)