Counsellor

Counsellor Liverpool, England

Sanctuary Family Support
Full Time Liverpool, England 10.56 - 12.04 GBP Today
Job description

1. Salary & Hours

£14,369 for 16Hrs per week

2. Job Summary

Provides counselling for appropriate Sanctuary Family Support service users

2. Maintains client records appropriately and collects anonymised data for organisational feedback.

3. Attends monthly supervision

4. Attends case management / mentoring session twice per month.

3. Communication and Relationships

Establishes effective therapeutic relationships, maintaining clear boundaries and clarifying roles and relationships.

Communicates in a highly skilled and sensitive manner.

Receives distressing and emotional information while ensuring very high levels of confidentiality.

Works effectively in emotive atmospheres.

Develops and maintains effective working relationships with other members of other Sanctuary Family Support staff.

Ensures that the service operates at the highest levels of confidentiality, integrity and discretion in order to maintain confidence in the service.

4. Knowledge, Training and Experience

Applies knowledge gained from Psychotherapy or Counselling training to minimum of Diploma in Counselling or Psychological Therapy.

Works towards accreditation by: United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy or equivalent.

5. Key Responsibilities

Clinical:

1. To implement a range of counselling / psychological therapy interventions, including post trauma interventions and work role consultation.

To formulate and implement plans for psychological therapy treatment, consultation, and management of the client's problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems, and how they relate to the organisational setting.

To formulate and implement treatment options taking into account for example: the theoretical and therapeutic models underpinning the therapist’s approach, a consideration of the interplay between individuals and how they function within an organization’s dynamics and systems, current evidence of efficacy of treatment models used, and the complexities of working within time limited treatment plans.

To exercise professional responsibility for the treatment and discharge of clients within national professional codes of ethics and practice and service policies and procedures.

To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, with clients and organisations working with Sanctuary Family Support, using a clear ethical understanding of boundaries and the importance both of client confidentiality and necessary communication.

To record information on organisational issues which are identified in work with individuals and groups, and to assist in the collation of this information with attention to the confidentiality of individual client work and the maintenance of appropriate professional boundaries.

To maintain high standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self­-governance in accordance with professional codes of practice

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To work towards risk assessment of clients and by the end of the placement to be able to undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients including child and vulnerable adult protection, raising matters of concern through the implementation of the service risk protocols.

To work as part of the Sanctuary Family Support team in providing sound, evidence-based care for clients.

Management, policy and service development

1. To use evaluation tools as appropriate, to contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of service standards, quality and effectiveness.

2. To act in an informed and pro-active manner in supporting improved access for clients.

Research and service evaluation

To keep up to date with and use theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice, in individual work and in work with other team members.

2. To undertake appropriate data collection to assist in service evaluation, professional feedback and research.

Teaching, Training and supervision

1. In order to maintain a high level of clinical practice and in common with all professional psychological therapists, to receive regular clinical supervision in accordance with good practice guidelines.

2. To contribute to the development and maintenance of high professional standards of practice, through active participation in internal and external CPD training and development programmes in line with professional registration requirements.

3. To maintain an active engagement with relevant fields of knowledge and with skills development including developments in the fields of mental health, workplace support, workplace psychological therapy and related disciplines.

4. Contribute to workshops and learning events based on psychological theory and evidence for employees and managers on a range of psychological themes relevant to the workplace, for example communication, conflict, trust, stress personal development.

6. Patient Care

To develop specialised programmes of care to reflect the specific needs and circumstances of individuals. To construct individualised formulations and counselling interventions, reflecting the particular psychological and social and organisational factors contributing to clients’ presenting problems.

Holds responsibility for delivery of psychological therapy to patients under caseload in accordance with clinical and managerial supervision. Holds responsibility to maintain and protect clinical records.

Job Type: Part-time
Part-time hours: 16 per week

Schedule:

  • Monday to Friday
  • No weekends

Ability to commute/relocate:

  • Liverpool: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 07/06/2023
Expected start date: 03/07/2023

Counsellor
Sanctuary Family Support

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