Therapeutic Counsellor
The Forward Trust
- Sutton, Greater London
- Contract
- Full-time
- 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.
- 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 experiance of substance misuse
- Experiance of working with vulnerable adults or wihtin secure settings
- A thorough knowledge of Trauma Informed Approaches
- 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)