Children and Young People's Counsellor

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder will work as a part of the Children, Young People and Families Service representing Middlesbrough and Stockton Mind. Working part of a dedicated support service within the Children and Young Peoples Team. Youwill be required to deliver counselling to Children and young people, providing creative, flexible and time limited counselling providing advice and guidance to people accessing the project.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Recognised Counselling or psychotherapy qualification to diploma level or equivalent
• Accredited or accreditable with a professional psychological therapy organisation, such as BACP or UKCP
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Experience

Essential

• Demonstrable experience of working with children and young people
• Experience of delivering recovery focused interventions, underpinned with a person-centred approach to promote client autonomy and independence
• Experience of supporting young people that have experienced a bereavement or loss
• Ability to manage own caseload and time
• Demonstrates high standards in written communication
• Able to write clear reports and letters
• Experience of training and liaising with other professional groups

Desirable

• Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Experience of using CBT techniques

Skills & Competencies

Essential

• Full range of counselling skills and competencies
• Ability to establish creative ways to enable children and young people to access and engage in therapeutic support
• Well developed skills to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex or sensitive information to the child or young person, their families, carers and other professional colleagues
• Skills to undertake risk assessments within scope of the service
• Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with children and young people

Other Qualities

Essential

• Current driving licence and use of own transport for work purposes
• Commitment to Minds values and objectives

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Middlesbrough and Stockton Mind Ltd

Address

The Mind Centre

90-92 Lothian Road

Middlesbrough

TS4 2QX

Employer's website

http://www.middlesbroughandstocktonmind.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)