Therapist / Counsellor
Service Care Solutions are currently working with a Local Charity to fill a full time, permanent position for a Therapist / Counsellor within their Substance Misuse & Addiction services.
Person Specification for Therapist Role
The day-to-day delivery of high quality therapeutic support to substance misusing clients who access our clients services via statutory or self referral.
Therapist & Counsellor Role Purpose:
- To provide counselling, support in relations to substance misuse.
- To communicate our clients vision and deliver its mission
- To provide direct client services by way of group and key work
- To meet key service objectives in line with our clients policies, procedures and data collection systems.
Main Duties & Responsibilities For The Successful Therapist & Counsellor:
- To contribute to assessments of clients within agreed timescales.
- To deliver a structured therapeutic support programme through group-work sessions and one to one interventions.
- To contribute to regular reviews of the client with probation (where appropriate) and health workers or other relevant agencies.
- To counsel individuals about their substance use using recognised theoretical models.
- To help individuals address their substance use and offending behaviour through an agreed action plan.
- To maintain records of the client attendance and participation in the group programme.
- To explore, implement and supervise a range of approaches, activities and exercises, which are designed to promote health and support individuals through detoxification/stabilisation.
- To utilise recording and statistical systems to collect and collate data and to ensure that all administration, case recording, written reports etc are maintained to agreed standards.
- To utilise a flexible approach and where required participate in activities and tasks which directly respond to client need.
Therapist & Counsellor Requirements:
- Experience of direct work with Substance Misuse clients.
- Two years experience of direct client work
- Experience of developing and delivering therapeutic support programmes
- Experience of providing direct client services, particularly assessment & Group Work
- Experience of working in partnership with a range of statutory and non-statutory agencies
This is a full time Therapist & Counsellor position working 40 hours a week Monday - Friday. This service is open 7 days a week so there would be a rota for weekend shifts.