Counsellor

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Job description

Counsellor

Our client has an exciting and rewarding opportunity to join their team as a Counsellor at their new and innovative residential service.

Service Area: Oxfordshire Services

Status: Full-time

Contract Type: Permanent

Total Salary Pro-Rata: £26,750

Posted Date: 18/09/2024

Closing Date: 20/10/2024

The Role

- To provide support for people with their recovery from drug or alcohol misuse through 1 to 1 counselling and group work.

- The post holder will also carry out strength-based assessments, and work with individuals to create care plans, and promote visible recovery.

- The post holder must work as part of a multi-disciplinary team made up of Therapeutic Workers, Nurses, and support staff.

- Provide supervision of academic placements ensuring that trainees acquire the necessary skills, competencies, and experience to contribute effectively to good mental health care and to contribute to the assessment and evaluation of such competencies.

- You will be able to utilise theory, evidence-based literature, and research to support evidence-based practise in individual work and work with other team members.

- To play a key role in the smooth running of the service.

About You

- The post holder should be a qualified counsellor with accreditation.

- They should have good office IT skills and be used to working in the substance misuse field or similar.

- The post holder should be experienced managing a case load, engaging in partnership working and delivering CBT based interventions.

Please note, our client will be assessing applications as they are submitted and may close this role should they find sufficient applicants with which to make their shortlist. As such, they would advise applying as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

Our client encourages and welcomes applications from people of all backgrounds and believe it is important to include people with lived experience to ensure the needs of the people they support are represented. They are committed to creating an inclusive working environment where everyone is free to be themselves and they ensure equity of opportunity.

So, if you're seeking your next challenge as a Counsellor, please get in touch or apply today.

Your Rewards

- Starting salary of £26,750, with opportunity to access potential yearly salary increments subject to appraisal, meaning potential salary increase up to £30,750

- 25 days' annual leave plus Bank Holidays (increasing each year to a maximum of 30 days)

- Clinical Supervision

- Brand new refurbished service with staff changing rooms and shower

- Free Car parking

- Benefits including season ticket loan, pension scheme and life assurance

- Support through occupational sick pay, eye-care vouchers and regular wellbeing talks and activities

- Continuous training and career development

- Access to a 24/7 Employee Assistance programme including telephone and online access

- A rewarding role with the opportunity to help our client support people on their journey to recovery and change their lives for the better

- They'll ensure you get all the support you need to thrive and succeed in your role and find your place amongst an incredible and collaborative team

About the Organisation

Our client provides drug and alcohol treatment.

Their values are what define them and ensure they work to the highest standards. They believe in being the best, they are passionate about recovery, they value their history and use it to inform their future.

They work with local authorities, other charities and service providers across the country to deliver innovative programmes and projects that change lives for the better, setting people on the path to health and emotional wellbeing.

They provide a diverse range of services and their expertise is the common thread that runs through everything they do. At their core, they support people, families and communities to recover from drug and alcohol dependency.

This role will be working in a women's-only residential service specialising in providing safe therapeutic environments for those who have experienced multiple disadvantage and those who have experienced past trauma. Therefore, there is an Operational Requirement for this role to be fulfilled by a female (determined compliant under ACAS guidelines for recruiting applicants with a protected characteristic to do a certain job). 1

1 Using protected characteristics in recruitment: Recruitment: hiring someone - ACAS

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