Job summary
We currently have an exciting opportunity to join our Horncastle Healthy Minds service as a Counsellor at Band 5 (Agenda for Change) on a 12 month fixed term contract or secondment.
This role is part of an ongoing pilot project, providing a counselling offer to children and young people who access our Healthy Minds Lincolnshire service. This project is an opportunity to make a real difference in outcomes for children, young people and their families by offering early support in the form of counselling intervention.
The Healthy Minds Lincolnshire service supports children and young people aged 0-19 who are presenting with emotional wellbeing or mental health problems, which are of a low level of complexity and/or intensity, by offering a variety of evidence based interventions. We are really excited to continue to pilot this additional intervention offer in the form of counselling.
This is advertised as full-time post operating Monday to Friday 9am-5pm, however other working patterns can be considered.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide assessments and counselling for children & young people who suffer a range of emotional wellbeing and common mental health problems, and monitor the effectiveness of the intervention.
You will be a key link person for Education Settings within your area. You will provide guidance and liaison to education providers and support in embedding the whole school approach. You will provide emotional wellbeing support to children and young people including their parents/carers and wider support network. Support will be provided by the Counsellor in groups, workshops and on a one-to-one basis.
You will also provide management and clinical supervision to the B4 Practitioners within the team.
About us
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!
We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.
This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.
When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:
Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy
Competitive annual leave allowance
Car leasing scheme
Childcare Vouchers
NHS pension scheme
Free eye tests
Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants
Get in touch today:
Our friendly team is here to answer any questions you may have about our roles. For more information, please contact Elle Twelvetrees via email at elle.twelvetrees@nhs.net or by telephone 07928691416.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.
When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:
Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy
Competitive annual leave allowance
Car leasing scheme
Childcare Vouchers
NHS pension scheme
Free eye tests
Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants
Get in touch today:
Our friendly team is here to answer any questions you may have about our roles. For more information, please contact Elle Twelvetrees via email at elle.twelvetrees@nhs.net or by telephone 07928691416.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Diploma in counselling (therapeutic)
- A member of, or accredited by a professional association e.g. BACP
Desirable
- Post qualification courses in childcare practice or therapeutic work with children and families.
- Good understanding of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and/or Solution Focused Therapy.
- Training qualification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with children and young people with mental health needs, including those with emotional wellbeing needs
- Experience of delivering counselling interventions in a one-to-one and/or group setting,
- Supervised practice
- Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively
- Ability to manage own caseload and time
- Ability to meet agreed/ specified service targets
- Experience of providing training to professionals and children and young people (or able to demonstrate aptitude).
- Good knowledge of universal children's services.
Desirable
- Accreditation with BACP/UKCP or working towards accreditation
- Commitment to appropriate ethic framework
- Experience of working with people who have mental health or emotional wellbeing needs.
- Experience of providing line management and or supervision.
- Knowledge of a broad range of psychological therapies including time limited interventions
Skills
Essential
- Sound knowledge of Child Care legislation and Safeguarding
- Good knowledge of current local and national strategies concerning Children's emotional wellbeing, Children's Services, and mental health
- Good understanding of child and adolescent development and risk management of young people in crisis.
- Ability to work in partnership with universal services to provide the best possible outcomes for children and young people.
- Ability to work both as a member of a team and autonomously and to manage own and other colleagues' anxieties.
- Sound knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of Information Governance principles.
- Highly developed communication skills.
- Ability to delegate whilst maintaining overall responsibility for service users care, where appropriate.
- Highly motivated & able to engage with service users & carers to improve outcomes
- Ability to be creative and adapt interventions to different age groups and abilities
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Diploma in counselling (therapeutic)
- A member of, or accredited by a professional association e.g. BACP
Desirable
- Post qualification courses in childcare practice or therapeutic work with children and families.
- Good understanding of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and/or Solution Focused Therapy.
- Training qualification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with children and young people with mental health needs, including those with emotional wellbeing needs
- Experience of delivering counselling interventions in a one-to-one and/or group setting,
- Supervised practice
- Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively
- Ability to manage own caseload and time
- Ability to meet agreed/ specified service targets
- Experience of providing training to professionals and children and young people (or able to demonstrate aptitude).
- Good knowledge of universal children's services.
Desirable
- Accreditation with BACP/UKCP or working towards accreditation
- Commitment to appropriate ethic framework
- Experience of working with people who have mental health or emotional wellbeing needs.
- Experience of providing line management and or supervision.
- Knowledge of a broad range of psychological therapies including time limited interventions
Skills
Essential
- Sound knowledge of Child Care legislation and Safeguarding
- Good knowledge of current local and national strategies concerning Children's emotional wellbeing, Children's Services, and mental health
- Good understanding of child and adolescent development and risk management of young people in crisis.
- Ability to work in partnership with universal services to provide the best possible outcomes for children and young people.
- Ability to work both as a member of a team and autonomously and to manage own and other colleagues' anxieties.
- Sound knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of Information Governance principles.
- Highly developed communication skills.
- Ability to delegate whilst maintaining overall responsibility for service users care, where appropriate.
- Highly motivated & able to engage with service users & carers to improve outcomes
- Ability to be creative and adapt interventions to different age groups and abilities
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
