Student Counsellor Preston, North West England, England
Job description
- Job Reference: 0116-23-R
- Date Posted: Monday, 5 June 2023
- Application Closing Date: Sunday, 18 June 2023
- Location: Preston Campus
- Salary: £33,348 to £38,474 per annum pro rata
- Basis: Part Time
- Contract Type: Indefinite
- Job Category / Type: Professional Services
- School / Service: Student Services
- Hours: 29.00 hours per week
- Interview Date: To be confirmed
The University of Central Lancashire is seeking to appoint a Student Counsellor to work within our busy Student Support and Wellbeing team. Qualified to degree level and with a recognised Diploma-level Counselling qualification, you will provide therapeutic counselling of the highest quality, to help individual students engage to the best of their ability within their course of study. Therapy and support will be provided using a solution focused, time limited approach.
The post holder will deliver health/wellbeing promotional and therapeutic activities to individuals and groups and take a proactive role in the anticipation, identification, co-ordination and planning of response(s) of the current and future needs of targeted groups of students, prior to those needs arising.
Duties will include but are not restricted to managing complex cases, providing therapeutic counselling and proactive health and wellbeing promotional activities for individual and groups. You will be expected to work closely with colleagues across the service and on occasion with external services and agencies. Utilising your experience of working in an established counselling service you will demonstrate a good understanding of students from a wide range of demographics and possess a calm and friendly demeanour in this challenging role. You will be required to support the Counselling Clinical Lead in gathering relevant service information, statistics and reports as required by the Line Manager/Senior Management in Student services.
We are looking for someone who can demonstrate the ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, with appropriate communication and interpersonal skills to deal with a wide variety of issues.
We strongly encourage applications from people with lived experience of the issues and challenges faced by people from different communities. We particularly encourage applications from male candidates, as well as individuals who come from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, as we are currently under-represented in this area, although all appointments will be made on merit.
This position is part time and the working pattern can be negotiable. Applicants need to meet all essential criteria on the person specification to be considered for interview. This position is based in Preston.
It is important to note that the successful applicant will be required to undertake an enhanced disclosure for you from the Disclosure and Barring Service and that this will form part of the conditions of offer of employment.
