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Counsellor This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced counsellor to join the Emotional Support Team in Cornwall. If a 35-hour role is not for you, a blend of part time hours as well as flexible working is available. This can be discussed further at interview. Position: S11168 Stroke Emotional Support Coordinator/Counsellor Location: Home-based West Cornwall, with frequent travel across Cornwall required as part of this role (May include team meetings or other work-related meetings) Hours: Full or part-time hours, 2 x 18 hours per week positions or 1x 35 hours per week position Salary: Circa £29,900 per annum, pro rata Contract: This is a fixed-term contract until 31 March 2026 and there is currently funding for this contract until 31 March 2026. Benefits: 25 days' annual leave plus bank holidays (this will increase with service up to 30 days, full time equivalent) cashback and discount scheme, employee assistance programme, learning and development, pension scheme, Life Assurance, Eye Care vouchers, Long Service Award, Tax-free childcare, Health Cash Plan, Working Pattern Agreement, flexible working opportunities available. Closing Date: 26 May 2024. We reserve the right to close these vacancies early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible. Interview Date: week commencing 3 June 2024 Interviews will be held via video conferencing. Please let us know if this will present any challenges when you email your application. The Role The project funded by the Elwyn Thomas Memorial Fund will deliver an Emotional Support Service as well as through collaborative community working, will result in valuable assets for the community. In the shape of self-sustaining peer and volunteer led support through groups, partnerships and activities. Reporting to the Emotional Support Service Manager, the team will deliver a professional counselling service to stroke survivors, carers and relatives. Counselling sessions are designed to help clients to develop emotional resilience, readjust to life after stroke and prepare to reintegrate into community life. Key responsibilities will include: Providing one to one counselling to stroke survivors, carers and relatives including those with communication or cognitive difficulties Providing counselling sessions in person, on-line or by telephone, throughout Cornwall Assessing the appropriateness of counselling for service users by providing emotional needs assessment sessions as well as using appropriate screening/evaluation tools (e.g. PHQ and GAD) Managing risk and safeguarding issues in accordance with appropriate legal, ethical and organisational requirements. About You You will have: An advanced diploma in integrative, humanistic or person-centred counselling/psychotherapy; for example, BACP recognised course or equivalent (i.e. 450 hours skills and theory, 100 hours of supervised practice, 20 hours of personal therapy) A minimum of 1 year post qualification supervised clinical practice BACP registration (or equivalent) and actively working towards accreditation Experience of delivering short-term counselling Experience of working with people with cognitive impairment This role requires extensive travel across a large geographical locality to visit people at home and in community settings. Candidates must be able to demonstrate how they can meet this requirement of the role. You must live in the West area of Cornwall to fulfil this travel requirement. To fulfil the role, you must be a resident of the UK and have the right to work in the UK. When you click to apply, you will be able to see the full responsibilities and person specification for further information on the role. Please submit your CV, (including details of your current address), and a supporting statement of no more than two pages, demonstrating how you meet the person specification and what you bring to the role in terms of your skills and experience. Please state any preferences for flexible options in your covering letter. Applications from individuals who are seeking flexible working options, including reduced hours or job shares are welcomed. About the Organisation When stroke strikes, part of your brain shuts down. And so does a part of you. That's because a stroke happens in the brain, the control centre for who we are and what we can do. It happens every five minutes in the UK and changes lives instantly. Recovery is tough, but with the right specialist support and a ton of courage and determination, the brain can adapt. Everyone deserves to live the best life they can after stroke. And it's a team effort to get there. The charity provides specialist support, funds critical research and campaigns to make sure people affected by stroke get the very best care and support to rebuild their lives. The organisation is working to improve the diversity of the team. Because individuality leads to a richer experience for its people and better support for those affected by stroke. People from all backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply. And particularly applications from those with lived experience of stroke and those from under-represented communities. Every five minutes, stroke destroys lives. Help rebuild them and join the team. The charity developed a bold new corporate strategy so that they can rebuild more lives after stroke and make a bigger difference to people's lives. To help deliver the strategy and make a real difference, we are looking to recruit talented people to a number of new roles. If you would like to support stroke survivors to rebuild their lives, we want to hear from you! You may also have experience in areas such as Counsellor, Counselling, Psychotherapy, BAC, Stroke Support, Stroke Counsellor, Medical Counsellor, Physical Counsellor, Disability Counsellor, Care, Care and Support, Social Care, Stroke Care, Emotional Support, Aftercare, Rehabilitation. PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisat
Therapeutic Counsellor Location: Ashford, Middlesex Salary: £28,877 per annum Job Type: Fixed Term, Full Time (Until December 2026) Are you looking for a meaningful career that helps others break the cycle of addiction and live a positive life? The impact you will have in this role is far more reaching than the day-to-day contact with service users, the service we provide reverberates through families and society. Who we are? The Forward Trust are a social enterprise that empowers people to break the cycle of crime and addiction to move forward with their lives. For more than 25 years we have been working with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past. We believe that anyone is capable of lasting change. Our services have supported thousands of people to make positive changes and build productive lives with a job, family, friends and a sense of community. We believe and are committed to providing opportunities to all people including those with 'Lived Experience' we encourage applications from all background including those in recovery from addiction, co-dependency or gambling, have experience of previous offending or homelessness. What you will be doing You will be based on site working across teams that have a broad skills mix delivering recovery-orientated Health and Wellbeing Services in Surrey Prisons. Counselling services will play a key role in enhancing therapeutic programmes and involve working directly with those who are detained in the prison who may present low-level mental health needs and/or substance misuse issues. As part of a regional team of counsellors you will offer 1:1 and group-based therapy and counselling interventions to service users aged 18 and over across: HMP Downview, HMP Send and HMP/YOI Bronzfield (base location can vary across these sites). To provide counselling assessments and treatment of clients referred into the Footsteps and/or Bridge programmes. To formulate and implement cohesive counselling treatment and/or management plans for clients mental health and wellbeing needs, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's difficulties and to employ methods of therapeutic intervention most appropriate to the individual case. To evaluate treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the client. To provide counselling advice and consultation to clients when required. To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the Integrated Wellbeing and Recovery service, and agencies serving the client group. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress, taking into account professional requirements on ethics and confidentiality. Please note these roles are fixed term until December 2026. We are open to both full time and part time applicants. What we are looking for Level 4 Diploma in Integrative Counselling qualification (proficiency certificate required) Accreditation with the BACP or working towards accreditation Experience of facilitating therapeutic groupwork Experience of providing counselling services to people within the criminal justice system and/or experience of substance misuse Experience of working with vulnerable adults or within secure settings A thorough knowledge of Trauma Informed Approaches What we offer Training opportunities and career development Flexible working 3 x wellbeing days in addition to annual leave entitlement Simply Health packages Season Ticket Loan Scheme Cycle to work scheme 25 days (rising to 30 with length of service) Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays Contributory Pension Scheme - Employer matched contributions of up to 6% in the first two years' service and up to 9% thereafter Death in Service Payment (2x annual salary) Critical Illness Insurance (subject to qualifying criteria) To Apply If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for The Forward Trust, please click apply where you will be redirected to their website to complete your application. We reserve the right to close adverts early