Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Nottinghamshire Healthcare's Staff Counselling Team working. Enabling the post holder to provide highly specialised counselling and workshops to employees of the Trust and valuable knowledge and experience to develop the service.
Our Staff Counselling services are offered in a variety of hospital and community based settings including High and Medium Secure, throughout Nottinghamshire and beyond in addition to remote services
Main duties of the job
Reporting to Clinical Team Leaders, you will provide an essential service to employees throughout the Trust's vast geographical footprint, enabling individuals referred with emotional difficulties to cope more effectively, with the aim of preventing deterioration in their well-being. You will be responsible for providing confidential assessment and ongoing counselling to staff with professional or personal issues, including post-incident support. We are also looking to develop workshops for teams and managers
This is a specialist role in a team that forms a core part of Nottinghamshire Healthcare's staff health and wellbeing offer, providing an excellent and unique opportunity for candidates with accreditation through a national psychotherapy/counselling accrediting organisation to gain experience .
About us
We have a huge variety of opportunities in our expansive Trust covering geographically from South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire to Leicester, providing mental health inpatient and community services, community health services, forensic mental health services and secure prison healthcare across the East Midlands.
We have more than 100 sites and a huge scope of unique opportunities to develop your career and gain some amazing experiences. We strive to be a great place to work and offer many staff benefits and tailored staff support and wellbeing programmes.
Do you want to make a difference?
Do you believe in Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork?
Then Nottinghamshire Healthcare is the perfect place for you to start, maintain or further your career. Join our team of nearly 9000 who are making a difference every day. We are all about our people - our staff, volunteers, carers, service users and patients. We are NottsHC.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
Full job description and person specification can be found in the included documents.
Reporting to Clinical Team Leaders, you will provide an essential service to employees throughout the Trusts vast geographical footprint, enabling individuals referred with emotional difficulties to cope more effectively, with the aim of preventing deterioration in their well-being. You will be responsible for providing confidential assessment and ongoing counselling to staff with professional or personal issues, including post-incident support. We are also looking to develop workshops for teams and managers
This is a specialist role in a team that forms a core part of Nottinghamshire Healthcares staff health and wellbeing offer, providing an excellent and unique opportunity for candidates with accreditation through a national psychotherapy/counselling accrediting organisation to gain experience .
Job description
Job responsibilities
Full job description and person specification can be found in the included documents.
Reporting to Clinical Team Leaders, you will provide an essential service to employees throughout the Trusts vast geographical footprint, enabling individuals referred with emotional difficulties to cope more effectively, with the aim of preventing deterioration in their well-being. You will be responsible for providing confidential assessment and ongoing counselling to staff with professional or personal issues, including post-incident support. We are also looking to develop workshops for teams and managers
This is a specialist role in a team that forms a core part of Nottinghamshire Healthcares staff health and wellbeing offer, providing an excellent and unique opportunity for candidates with accreditation through a national psychotherapy/counselling accrediting organisation to gain experience .
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Completion of a British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy accredited counselling course at diploma level or equivalent
- Hold British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy Accreditation and Registration
Desirable
- Qualification in an IAPT compliant psychological therapy e.g. CfD, IPT, DIT, EMDR
- Qualification in clinical supervision
Training
Essential
- Ability to undertake essential training as required by the Trust
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of substantial post-qualification experience of primary care counselling work
- Experience of providing clinical supervision
- Experience of mentoring trainee counsellors
- Experience of short-term time-limited counselling
- Evidence of regular supervised practice
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Experience of working with a diverse client group with a wide range of presenting problems and significant levels of distress
- Experience of promoting wellbeing and social inclusion
- Experience of delivering group work
Desirable
- Experience of collaborative work in the NHS
- Experience of the application of counselling in different cultural contexts
- Experience of delivering online therapy
- Experience of waiting list management strategies
- Experience of supervision of primary care counsellors
- Line Management and leadership experience in a health care setting
Knowledge
Essential
- Extensive clinical and theoretical knowledge of more than one model of cousnelling
- Knowledge of NHS structures and policy within a primary care context
- Knowledge of the IAPT model
Desirable
- Understanding of the role of mentoring
- Knowledge of mental health referral pathways and procedures
- Knowledge of psychotropic medication and mental health diagnosis
Skills
Essential
- Highly developed interpersonal skills and communication skills both oral and written
- Evidence of ability to organise own workload
- Ability to sustain intense levels of concentration responding and participating as required
- Ability to self-reflect and use clinical supervision appropriately
- Basic keyboard skills
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
Desirable
- Specialist skills e.g. psychosexual counselling or working with ethnic minorities
- Experience of audit evaluation and outcome measurement
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Completion of a British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy accredited counselling course at diploma level or equivalent
- Hold British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy Accreditation and Registration
Desirable
- Qualification in an IAPT compliant psychological therapy e.g. CfD, IPT, DIT, EMDR
- Qualification in clinical supervision
Training
Essential
- Ability to undertake essential training as required by the Trust
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of substantial post-qualification experience of primary care counselling work
- Experience of providing clinical supervision
- Experience of mentoring trainee counsellors
- Experience of short-term time-limited counselling
- Evidence of regular supervised practice
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Experience of working with a diverse client group with a wide range of presenting problems and significant levels of distress
- Experience of promoting wellbeing and social inclusion
- Experience of delivering group work
Desirable
- Experience of collaborative work in the NHS
- Experience of the application of counselling in different cultural contexts
- Experience of delivering online therapy
- Experience of waiting list management strategies
- Experience of supervision of primary care counsellors
- Line Management and leadership experience in a health care setting
Knowledge
Essential
- Extensive clinical and theoretical knowledge of more than one model of cousnelling
- Knowledge of NHS structures and policy within a primary care context
- Knowledge of the IAPT model
Desirable
- Understanding of the role of mentoring
- Knowledge of mental health referral pathways and procedures
- Knowledge of psychotropic medication and mental health diagnosis
Skills
Essential
- Highly developed interpersonal skills and communication skills both oral and written
- Evidence of ability to organise own workload
- Ability to sustain intense levels of concentration responding and participating as required
- Ability to self-reflect and use clinical supervision appropriately
- Basic keyboard skills
- Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
Desirable
- Specialist skills e.g. psychosexual counselling or working with ethnic minorities
- Experience of audit evaluation and outcome measurement
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
