Counselling Jobs

We are looking for an experienced, skilled and friendly adult counsellor, dedicated to improving the mental health and emotional resilience of our community.

Our ideal candidate is committed to providing a high standard in their work, with a passion to supporting clients to help them on their journey towards positive mental health and who embed and share Beacon’s values.

You will be delivering 1:1 complex case counselling and assessments within face to face and remote appointments for our Stockport Homes Group counselling service based onsite at Beacon House or at Stockport Homes Group main office.

Beacon Counselling and Stockport Homes Group work in partnership to provide effective, high quality short-term therapy to Stockport Homes adult tenants through a self or supported referral pathway.

Clients referring into this service will be assessed initially by this role and allocated into the appropriate pathway within the programme.

The role requires 10 client hours per week including assessments, with a 12 hour per week contract. You may be required to work evenings to meet the demand and needs of our clients. 

Our ideal applicant with be enthusiastic, caring, positive and committed to learning and developing within their role to ensure we continue to provide the best service to our clients. Although training to use our systems will be provided, you will have some digital competence and understanding to fulfil the administrative requirements of the role.

We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team at Beacon and would particularly welcome applications from under represented communities including, LGBTQIA+, older applicants and global majority communities.

The salary for this role is £31,785 per annum pro rata.

You should apply if you have the following:

• Qualified with a minimum of a Level 4/Diploma in Counselling/Psychotherapy.
• Demonstrable expertise and knowledge in delivering 1:1 counselling appointments.
• You will have a minimum of 500 post qualification hours to apply for this role with a minimum of 2 years post qualification experience.
• Experience of dealing effectively with safeguarding incidents.
• Experience and knowledge of working with people at risk of suicide and an awareness of specific issues affecting people at risk of suicide.
• Have an understanding of the impact of trauma in a therapeutic setting.
• Specialist knowledge of a range of counselling skills and approaches underpinned by theory.
• An awareness of boundary issues applicable to this high risk group.
• Experience of carrying out assessments.
• Ability to complete a range of monitoring tools effectively for clients and the service.
• Confidence in completion of administrative tasks and use of IT, including monitoring forms.
• An organised approach to your work including the maintenance of client records, ensuring information is secure and confidential.
• Would ensure to follow Beacons policies and procedures including safeguarding.
• Are friendly and approachable with positive and professional communication skills, working across all teams.
• Ability to work to a high professional standard and within the BACP’s Ethical Framework.
• Are enthusiastic and committed to continual professional development, including mandatory training.
• Are registered with an appropriate regulatory body (e.g. BACP, NCPS).

Further information about the role can be found in the attached recrutiment pack.

Application is by submission of an up-to-date CV and covering letter. The closing date for all applications is Friday 11th April 2025. We will be conducting interviews as and when suitable candidates apply and we reserve the right to close the advert should we appoint the position.

Join a team with a bold mission – at Swindon & Gloucestershire Mind, we are dedicated to reshaping the landscape of mental health and emotional wellbeing in our community. We are growing our counselling service, and we will be offering more generalised counselling as well as our Self Harmony service which specialises in self-harm and self-injury reduction.

What You'll Do:

- Collaborative Leadership: Lead, inspire, and effectively manage a team of professionals to deliver exceptional mental health support and interventions.

- Innovation and Empowerment: Channel your passion into providing evidence-based interventions, elevating the mental health and emotional well-being of the people we serve, while opening doors to life's possibilities.

- Effective Partnerships:  Ensure effective and appropriate communication with all individuals, staff, community agencies and partner organisations.

Why Join Us:

· Impact Matters: Join a team where your work directly transforms lives and contributes to a healthier community.

· Personal Growth: We offer professional development opportunities that will enrich your career and help shape the future of mental health services in Swindon.

· Collaborative Culture: Work alongside like-minded individuals who share your passion for making a meaningful impact.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Contract and Services Management  

• Informing the future direction and development of the Counselling Team including working closely with the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and Commissioners internally and externally of the organisation.
• Champion innovation and co-lead the implementation of enchantments to services, and support the implementation of change, best practice and continuous improvement.
• Develop the Swindon and Gloucestershire estate, exploring potential space in the local community, networking with other charities and local businesses to source suitable space to enable the growth and development of the counselling service.
• To manage a caseload of clients, offering sessions in line with the counselling service procedures and policies.
• Ensure counselling sessions and practice is carried out in accordance with the BACP framework and other ethical guidelines.
• Understand and build upon local assets and resources, to enable a holistic and flexible and flexible place-based support structures that are responsive to local needs.
• Develop the service model with a two-tier model of high and low risk, working effectively with the team, Service Manager and SLT.
• Ensure adequate professional supervision is arranged and attended by counsellors, including volunteers.
• Ensure all counsellors meet their allocated CPD hours per year.
• To screen all referrals including self-referrals and professional referrals and assess risk.
• To work closely with practitioners and informing them of when a client is due to exit and if additional support is required.
• To ensure agreed service standards are upheld and monitored using internal evaluations, user feedback, audits etc.

2. Effective Collaboration with External Agencies and Organisations

• Establish effective relationships with key referrers including the Primary Care Networks and Secondary Car Services in your locality, facilitating meaningful two-way dialogue with key stakeholders.
• To work closely with other staff within S&G Mind, including communicating any updates/concerns to practitioners involved with the person as well as internal MDT meetings.
• To build strong relationships with primary and secondary services in relation to smooth referral pathways and transitions for people.
• To extend external meetings/steering groups in relation to self-harm and suicide prevention.
• To build relationships with local colleagues and other training providers for future counselling placements.

3. Team Leadership

• Co- lead and develop your team in partnership with the Service Manager and Senior Leadership Team in delivering recovery-focused, high quality, safe and person-centred care, delivering great outcomes for people using services.
• Provide leadership to the operations of the team, monitoring workload, ensuring staff follow policies and procedures.
• Offer management support and supervision including Personal Development Reviews.
• To be involved with recruitment of new staff including participating on the interview panel and leading induction
• Ensure all counsellors are supported and developed through a job coaching, individual supervision, group supervision, and appraisals, identifying and promptly addressing learning and development needs.
• Ensure consistency, ethical practice and adherence to BACP (or other professional associations) and recommendations for the whole team.
• Monitor staff compliance with S&G Mind policies and procedures.
• Support staff and facilitate regular team meetings.
• Support with delivering debrief meetings and team meetings where required.
• To be involved with recruitment of new staff including participating on the interview panel and leading induction.
• To investigate any incidents reported by staff or people accessing services and follow up the recorded outcomes following S&G Mind policies and procedures.
• To explore complaints made to the Self Harmony Counselling contract and follow the relevant procedures and policies.
• To undertake investigations in line with relevant policies e.g. complaints policy, HR investigation.
• To ensure all counsellors are assessing risk and that risk is managed appropriately in line with the person’s needs and policies/procedure of the service.
• Take part in the on-call support rota when required for services across Swindon & Gloucestershire Mind.

4. KPI’s and Data Excellence

• To monitor and prepare stats and requested outcomes as needed.
• To maintain and manage own client record systems.
• To monitor data including number of sessions provided within the service and time of access.
• To utilise S&G Mind systems to capture, track and monitor performance.
• To manage and monitor the waiting lists, assessments and referral timescales, meeting targets set by management and SLT.
• Produce regular outcome reports demonstrating the effectiveness of the service and highlighting gaps in provision.
• To produce reports in relation to KPI’s and actively look at ways to develop and improve the service.
• To review and monitor authorisation of any extension of sessions, exploring reasons and outcomes for additional sessions
• The role will also include supporting other areas of work and undertake other duties at Swindon & Gloucestershire Mind when needed.

About us

At Gloucestershire Counselling Service we aim to empower people to make positive lasting change in their lives. We do this by providing high quality and accessible training and counselling services to the communities of Gloucestershire.

About the role

Based at our offices in Stroud, we have an exciting opportunity for an experienced and confident Head of Finance to join our vibrant charity and help us in making a difference to people’s lives.

As a key member of our senior leadership team, you will lead on the sound financial management of the organisation and contribute to shaping our strategic direction.

This is a chance for you to draw on your accounting and financial experience in bringing new and innovative ideas to how we organise ourselves.

About you

This is an ideal role for someone with the ambition, energy and curiosity to develop and continually improve our accounting and reporting systems. Alongside your first-rate accountancy knowledge, you will bring excellent people skills and the ability to successfully and positively implement change.

You’ll enjoy managing those around you to help you deliver, and you’ll thrive if you are also happy to get stuck into a fiddly problem and fix it quickly. Your talent for knowing when to stand back and see the bigger picture will be vital in this busy role.

Empathy with the aims of the organisation and our clients is essential. 

This is a part-time role with options for flexible and hybrid working. We offer 25 days annual leave and a contributory pension scheme.

Deadline for applications is 5pm on Monday 31st March. Please submit a CV and personal statement (two pages max) detailing your suitability for the role.

Beacon Counselling is a registered mental health charity in Stockport dedicated to improving mental health and emotional resilience of our community for more than 40 years.

We deliver a whole range of mental health and wellbeing services in schools, community hubs, online and from our base in the heart of Stockport, offered by our dedicated team of qualified paid and volunteer counsellors and wellbeing workers.

We know that everyone and every situation is different and that’s why we provide people with a space to talk, and to be heard.

We are looking for a Wellbeing Worker who has experience supporting child and young people’s emotional wellbeing and mental health and is dedicated to improving the mental health and emotional resilience of our community.

Our ideal candidate is committed to providing a high standard in their work, with a passion to supporting children and young people to help them on their journey towards positive mental health and who embed and share Beacon’s values.

You will be delivering 1:1 wellbeing support, face to face appointments and potentially remote, and will be able to work evenings to meet the demand and needs of the service.

Our ideal applicant with be enthusiastic, caring, positive and committed to learning and developing within their role to ensure we continue to provide the best service to our clients.

Although training to use our systems will be provided, you will have some digital competence and understanding to fulfil the administrative requirements of the role.

We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team at Beacon and would particularly welcome applications from under represented communities including, LGBTQIA+, older applicants and global majority communities.

Please see the job pack for further information regarding the roles.

We are recruiting a full-time Counselling Services Coordinator to coordinate a trauma-informed counselling service for survivors of sexual violence and rape at our centre in Sale. Our Counselling Service Coordinator will support our team of qualified counsellors whilst they deliver up to 26 free counselling sessions; recruit, induct and hold clinical responsibility for the counsellors and student counsellors; oversee, assess and manage the triage service for new counselling referrals; oversee and facilitate group work and the drop-in; undertake any reporting, data collecting, and analysis of stats related to service; and act as Designated Safeguarding Lead for TRC counselling services.

TRC Sexual Abuse & Rape Support Greater Manchester (TRC) is a feminist charity that supports survivors of sexual violence and rape with trauma-informed services delivered by a passionate team of employees and trained volunteers from the local community. TRC believes survivors, is non-judgmental, confidential and understands the importance of survivors’ advocacy, supporting survivors to rebuild confidence, trust, self-esteem and their lives after rape and/or sexual violence. We are a small but tight-knit team of employees with a large impact who puts survivors first.

The deadline for this opportunity is on Friday 21st March at 5pm and we will begin interviewing on Monday 31st March. 

About the role

We have an exciting opportunity for either a Clinical/Counselling Psychologist or CBT Therapist or Psychological Therapist to join our innovative and friendly multidisciplinary team. Our team of experienced clinicians offer a range of specialist therapy interventions to survivors of torture.

If you are aware of the challenges experienced by survivors of torture, and are able to provide trauma-focused and other targeted therapy, you may be the person we are looking for.

We are committed to clinical development, and offer all our psychological therapists the opportunity to train in EMDR and Narrative Exposure Therapy.

About you

For Clinical/Counselling Psychologist

You must be qualified in Clinical or Counselling Psychology (you will be trained to doctorate level or an equivalent vocational level 7). Additionally you must have experience of providing trauma focused therapy in a multi-cultural setting. Freedom from Torture uses evidence based approaches including trauma focused CBT, NET and EMDR, so you need to have experience of using at least one of these approaches.

It is also essential that you are registered to practice as a clinical or counselling psychologist with HCPC.

The role involves developing links and networks with local universities to promote placement opportunities for trainee Clinical and/or Counselling Psychologists. You will also be responsible for offering supervision to trainees.

For CBT Therapist and Psychological Therapist

Due to the psychological trauma experienced by our clients you must have up to date knowledge of relevant mental health and safeguarding legislation. Additionally you must have experience of providing trauma focused therapy in a multi-cultural setting. Freedom from Torture uses evidence based approaches including trauma focused CBT, NET and EMDR, so you need to have experience of using at least one of these approaches.

It is essential that you have a qualification in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and are an accredited member of a relevant professional body, e.g. BABCP.

In return, we offer a competitive package, with a generous 30-day annual leave entitlement, and 6% employer pension contribution (minimum 1% employee contribution).

Freedom from Torture is committed to showing the salary for all advertised roles and not negotiating salaries for roles, in light of evidence that this contributes to structural inequality.

Our policy is that all appointments will be at the start of the salary range but successful candidates will have the opportunity to move up the scale over time. The progression up the salary range is reviewed on an annual basis and subject to affordability.

Freedom from Torture is dedicated to healing and protecting people who have survived torture. We provide therapies to improve physical and mental health, we medically document torture, and we provide legal and welfare help. We expose torture globally, we fight to hold torturing states to account and we campaign for fairer treatment of torture survivors in the UK.

We campaign for national and global change, using evidence from our services and survivor voices to protect and promote survivor's rights and hold torturing states to account. We are proud to play a significant role in the global anti-torture movement. Survivors, active and empowered, are at the centre of all of our work.

Freedom from Torture is committed to its responsibilities under safeguarding, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to a satisfactory DBS disclosure, as well as a need for full employment history and up to date employment references.

Freedom from Torture is an equal opportunity employer. People with lived experience of torture or asylum, from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQIA+ individuals and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.

To view the Job Descriptions and Person Specifications for all roles, please visit our website.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.

No agencies please.

We are seeking a Head of Counselling Services for 3.5 days a week (26 hours) to lead a team specialising in supporting children and young people aged 5 – 25 years through their challenging times.  Leading the counselling support for young people and their families, you will guide the therapists who work with them. Liaising with the CEO, you will be leading the strategic direction for a large team of therapists and be the Safeguarding Lead.  Working in Harlow, you will provide therapeutic expertise to support the therapists and the team.

This is a key role within the organisation and the successful candidate will be working closely with all levels of the charity, happy to liaise with allied professionals and other stakeholders as needed. You will be familiar with ensuring that funding and resources are used effectively, and competent in gathering data for funders and generating reports as needed.

With professional understanding of person-centred therapy and working with young people, the successful candidate will be be a qualified, experienced therapist, a member of the BACP, and have experience of being a supervisor. You will have demonstrable experience of working within the BACP ethical framework, guidance and current legislation, experience of safeguarding practices, with sufficient experience and knowledge to be the Safeguarding Lead.

If you are interested in finding out more information about this opportunity, please register your interest below and submit your CV in Word format.

As a specialist Recruitment Practice, we are committed to building inclusive and diverse organisations, and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you in your application.

Beacon Counselling is a registered mental health charity in Stockport dedicated to improving mental health and emotional resilience of our community for more than 40 years.

We deliver a whole range of mental health and wellbeing services in schools, community hubs, online and from our base in the heart of Stockport, offered by our dedicated team of qualified paid and volunteer counsellors and wellbeing workers.

We know that everyone and every situation is different and that’s why we provide people with a space to talk, and to be heard.

We are looking for both newly qualified and experienced friendly adult counsellors, dedicated to improving the mental health and emotional resilience of our community.

Our ideal candidate is committed to providing a high standard in their work, with a passion to supporting clients to help them on their journey towards positive mental health and who embed and share Beacon’s values.

You will be delivering 1:1 counselling, face to face appointments and potentially remote, and be able to work evenings to meet the demand and needs of our clients, with a minimum delivery commitment of 15 client hours per week.

Our ideal applicant with be enthusiastic, caring, positive and committed to learning and developing within their role to ensure we continue to provide the best service to our clients. Although training to use our systems will be provided, you will have some digital competence and understanding to fulfil the administrative requirements of the role.

We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team at Beacon and would particularly welcome applications from under represented communities including, LGBTQIA+, older applicants and global majority communities.

Please see the job pack for further information regarding the roles.

We are seeking a Counselling Services Coordinator for a maternity cover contract with a highly regarded Charity which supports children and young people aged 5 – 25 years by providing therapeutic services for young people and their families when going through challenging times.
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Being the first contact in many cases for young people and their families through their therapeutic journey, it will be key for you to have a strong understanding of psychology or the counselling process.  You will be triaging new service users to the correct service or therapist and ensuring the appropriate risk assessments are undertaken.  You will share responsibility for health and safety practices, safeguarding and risk, reporting any concerns to line management and taking appropriate action when required.

Working in Harlow, you will be part of the team managing incoming communication from potential and current clients, referrers, families, and professionals.  You will be part of a team with another coordinator, liaising with experienced therapists, communicating any safeguarding concerns to the Clinical Lead and therapists for them to take forward.

The role will be busy and central to the delivery of the charity’s services. It will involve working with internal colleagues, being one of the main points of contact for a large team of therapists and building and maintaining effective relationships with schools and external agencies, whilst keeping the admin updated to a high standard.

As a specialist Recruitment Practice, we are committed to building inclusive and diverse organisations, and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you in your application.

Location: London (remote working within the UK is possible)

Hours: Full-Time

Remuneration: £60,000 - £75,000 depending on experience

Contract: Permanent

About FILE

The Foundation for International Law for the Environment (FILE) was set up in 2018 to be the major philanthropic re-granter scaling up legal action globally to tackle the climate and biodiversity crises.

We work as movement enablers, campaign strategists, and impact funders, using the law in pursuit of three interconnected system-level goals:

• Reducing net greenhouse gas emissions to protect the climate
• Safeguarding nature
• Delivering climate and environmental justice

We pursue these goals not just by supporting legal action directly. We believe in growing the strength of the climate and biodiversity legal movement globally, and in enabling people and movements to use legal action to shift narratives.

As movement enablers, campaign strategists, and impact funders, we at FILE do not ourselves bring litigation. As a regrantor, FILE is not an endowed foundation, but rather we engage in fundraising to secure resources to support our partners globally.

The Role

This is an exciting role with a wide remit where you will be responsible, under the supervision of the General Counsel for a range of work, including the following: general contracting, corporate governance, compliance, support on policies, and legal advice on a wide range of subjects.

Offering a wide view of the whole organisation, this is not a role for a heads down only technical lawyer – you’ll need to have your finger in many pies and display a wide array of skills. In return, you’ll get to be involved in a variety of interesting and engaging projects.

Key Responsibilities

Contracts

• Under the supervision of the General Counsel, review, draft and negotiate a wide variety of legal documents and agreements, including, but not limited to technical aspects of donor contracts, grant agreements, supply of goods and services agreements, IT agreements, and property leases.
• Draft, user friendly templates and guidance; improve contracting processes.
• Support in the drafting and delivery of contract management training to embed a good contract culture within the organisation.

 Governance 

• Support the General Counsel to manage governance queries and provide support to entities in complying with their governance obligations,
• Assist with the preparation of board papers and resolutions as required,
• Support the General Counsel on insurance review and renewals.

Policy/Compliance 

• Support the General Counsel to design, consult on, draft, review and/or input into key organisational corporate policies, processes and /or guidance, including but not limited to fraud and bribery, data protection, document retention, terrorism, money laundering, due diligence.
• Input into the design of, and provide training on key policies, processes and legal principles, including but not limited to legal privilege and confidentiality;
• Work with all departments to ensure implementation/compliance mechanisms are in in place and function as they should.

 General Law and Advice 

• Advise on contractual law, charity law, company law, lobbying, data protection and other laws and regulations as required.
• Support FILE’s trademark management.
• Conduct legal research as required and support the General Counsel in keeping informed and up to date on any applicable new or developing laws and regulations

 Other 

• Support the maintenance of the Legal Team’s intranet page, including maintenance of policies and templates in a user friendly form for all members of FILE.
• Maintain relationships with external law firms and nurture relationships with pro bono providers.

About you 

We know that long lists of criteria can be discouraging and that some candidates will not apply for a role unless they feel they are 100% qualified. If you feel you meet at least some of the essential criteria, we still encourage you to apply. 

We also recognise that skills and experience can be gained in unexpected places, so we welcome applications from candidates who feel they have relevant skills for the role, gained from a wide range of professional, lived and learned experiences.  

Essential criteria

• Qualified legal practitioner with international experience (knowledge within the UK or Netherlands preferred)
• Contract law experience gained from a well-regarded firm / in-house / charity practice
• Experience on corporate governance issues
• Experience in an international donor-funded or grant making organisation is a plus
• Skilled in project-managing and working with external lawyers
• Practical and creative solutions-focused problem solver
• Ability to turn hand at short notice to a wide range of legal issues
• Superior attention to detail and accuracy
• Excellent organisational skills
• Excellent communication skills and ability to summarise complex matters into concise and simple briefings
• A strong team player, willing to support at all levels
• Strong commitment to FILE’s mission and values, strong professional ethics, and integrity 

Location

FILE has offices in London and the Netherlands. We are advertising this role for candidates based (and with the right to work) in the UK, or the Netherlands. but will also consider applications from other locations where we are able to do so.

Therefore, please note that this role will be advertised in multiple locations, but we are only hiring for one position. Please apply to the job post for your preferred location.

Working for FILE

FILE is a collaborative community of individuals who share a passion for climate, nature, and justice. We bring together knowledge and experience to support our mission.

Our people are empowered to lead their work both individually and as part of a wider team in order to make impactful change. As a relatively young organisation with the ambitious mission to change global systems, our roles are ideally suited to those who are highly strategic, flexible and adaptable, and open to growing in line with the Foundation.

FILE is committed to challenging inequality and values diversity, equity and justice in all areas of life. Our mission, work and impact is global, with staff and partners from across the world and a range of lived experiences. We firmly believe that we are strengthened by the diversity of our partners and staff.

At FILE, we actively work to create an inclusive culture where colleagues feel welcomed, heard and supported to succeed and thrive.

How FILE supports its staff

FILE is committed to creating a workplace that supports our staff to do their best work and develop professionally. FILE offer a generous annual leave policy and additional time-off work to support wellbeing. Amongst other benefits, FILE offers private healthcare and a contribution to a pension scheme.

FILE is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and empowered. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and encourage candidates who can contribute to the diversity of our team to apply.

Join us in making a tangible difference in the fight against climate change by creating spaces where diverse voices come together to drive impactful solutions.

Applications

Please apply on our website and upload your CV. This role is open for applications immediately and we accept applications on a rolling basis. If you are interested, we encourage you to submit your application as early as possible. The role will close on the 6 of April. 

Diversity & Inclusion

As an equal opportunities employer, FILE is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join FILE.

The Children's Society 'Vaping' Project Worker 

 Project Worker Essex based in Chelmsford working County Wide

 Salary: £29,855.00 per annum / £16,137.84 pro rata

Part time 20 hour position available

Contract end date 31st December 2027

We are currently looking for an innovative and motivated group worker/ youth worker to join our dynamic, ambitious team. 

We wish to recruit a Vaping Practitioner to cover the County of Essex, based both at home and within our central office in Chelmsford. This person will deliver the work of The Children's Society to children & young people who are engaged in vaping through the use of individual support and group work, thereby ensuring the children and young people are educated on harm reduction methods and have access to quitting and reduction support.

This role sits within Youth Impact, which works to provide immediate one-to-one and group support for children who urgently need support. 

Your experience is key in securing this role:

In order to be successful in this role, you must have: 

-Experience working with young people in a group and one to one setting

-Have understanding of the risks and vulnerabilities young people face especially in relation to vaping

-Have access to a car and a full UK driving license

-Be able to use IT to support case recording and calendar management

You will need substantial experience in working with vulnerable children and young people either in a paid or unpaid capacity.  You will have experience of developing and facilitating groups with young people and delivering one to one support both virtually and face to face in the school, community or home setting.

Ideally but not essentially you will have, or be working towards a relevant professional qualification e.g. a Diploma/Certificate in Youth and Community work, counselling, social care or related NVQ or have relevant experience in these fields.

As well as a strong commitment to your development, we offer a generous pro rata holiday entitlement, a contributory stakeholder pension, childcare vouchers and agile and flexible working.

The Children's Society has been helping children and young people in this country for over 140 years. We run local services that support children when they are at their most vulnerable and in desperate need of help. We're there for children, every step of the way. 

The Children's Society runs over 100 local services that help thousands of young people who desperately need our support, and we campaign to get laws and policies changed to make children's lives happier and safer. 

Every day we're changing the lives of children in this country for the better - and with your help, tomorrow we can be there for even more. 

The Children's Society is committed to safeguarding and protecting the children and young people that we work with.  As such, all posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.  We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practices across our services.

Therefore, candidates applying for work in our Youth Impact Domain will be required to complete an “Employment history template” document prior to interview. The fully completed document should be loaded by the candidate at the point of uploading your CV.

The closing date for applications is on 4th April 2025. If after 14 days we receive enough applications, we reserve the right to close this vacancy from the 25th March onwards.

Interviews will be held on 8th April.

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Join a team with a bold mission – at Swindon & Gloucestershire Mind, we are dedicated to reshaping the landscape of mental health and emotional wellbeing in our community.

Our Self Harmony Counselling Service supports individuals who are engaging in self-injury/self-harming behaviours and are seeking to reduce or stop these behaviours through one-to-one counselling. The service also offers generalised counselling for people who are experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties or concerns.

In addition to counselling, you will support clients aged 16+ through assessments, risk evaluations, and collaborative working with other professionals. You will also contribute to training workshops aimed at improving understanding of self-harm and its management.

What You'll Do:

- Innovation and Empowerment: Channel your passion into providing evidence-based interventions, elevating the mental health and emotional well-being of the people we serve, while opening doors to life's possibilities.

- Effective Partnerships:  Ensure effective and appropriate communication with all individuals, staff, community agencies and partner organisations.

Why Join Us:

· Impact Matters: Join a team where your work directly transforms lives and contributes to a healthier community.

· Personal Growth: We offer professional development opportunities that will enrich your career and help shape the future of mental health services in Swindon.

· Collaborative Culture: Work alongside like-minded individuals who share your passion for making a meaningful impact.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Deliver Person-Centred Support

• To manage a caseload of clients, offering sessions in line with the counselling service procedures and policies.
• To provide counselling in line with the service specification.
• To ensure counselling is being delivered in line with BACP guidelines or other ethical frameworks.
• To have a good understanding of how to support younger clients due to the service working with people aged 16+.
• To screen all referrals including self-referrals and professional referrals and assess need/risk.
• To undertake assessments and report back to the counselling lead for allocation.
• To work closely with practitioners and informing them of when a client is due to exit and if additional support is required.
• To ensure agreed service standards are upheld and monitored using internal evaluations, user feedback, audits etc.

2. Effective Collaboration with External Agencies and Organisations

• To work closely with other staff within S&G Mind, including communicating any updates/concerns to practitioners involved with the person as well as internal MDT meetings. 
• To liaise with professionals about Swindon wellbeing services, including attending multidisciplinary meetings.
• Attending meetings on behalf of the Swindon Manager when required.
• To signpost and support the person accessing the service to appropriate additional support services, resources and up to date information either internally or to external appropriate agencies.

3. KPI’s and Data Excellence

• To monitor and prepare stats and requested outcomes as needed.
• To maintain and manage own client record systems.
• To monitor data including amount of sessions provided within the service and time of access.
• To utilise S&G Mind systems to capture, track and monitor performance.
• To ensure client outcomes are effectively monitored and evaluated, and inputted for quarterly reporting.
• To produce case study reports.
• To write up notes from sessions and record information in line with S&G Mind policies and procedures.

Social Care Link Worker Substance Misuse Practitioner

Permanent contract but funding for this role ends on 31st March 2026 with potential for extension in line with the EYPDAS contract which ends 31st March 2030

Hours: 37 hours per week

Salary: £29,855.00 per annum

The Children's Society is currently undertaking a pay and grading review - this review is intended to improve our current approach; we are currently consulting with our recognised trade union and any changes are due to be implemented in April 2025.

Location: Essex - Countywide role primarily covering 2 quadrants

The Children's Society has been helping children and young people in this country for over 140 years. We run local services that support young people when they are at their most vulnerable and in desperate need of help. We're there for young people, every step of the way.  

This role sits within our children and families directorate, which works to provide immediate one-to-one and group support for young people who urgently need support. Your role will be to help us maintain and develop innovative practice to support our work in our services within the Essex area.  

We wish to recruit a Social Care Link Practitioners to join our established Essex Young Peoples Drug and Alcohol Team (EYPDAS) supporting young people aged 8-25 who are using or misusing substances and their families as well as being a point of contact for Essex Social Care.

You will provide direct therapeutic support to vulnerable young people, vulnerable young adults and families who are affected by substance use; engaging parents and carers into the drug treatment system, where required. You will support Essex Children's Social Care to be a point of contact and information..

Support offered will include one to one face to face interventions, targeted group work & online support across the County as well as consultation with professionals. You will also facilitate training around substances for statutory and voluntary agencies across the County. 

The young people will require a skilled practitioner who is experienced in working with hard to reach, vulnerable young people at risk through the use of therapeutic approaches. You should have experience of facilitating groups or delivering training with knowledge of the issues and legislation affecting young people who are using or misusing substances. 

What we are looking for...

-You will have substantial experience in working with vulnerable young people either in a paid or unpaid capacity. To be able to evidence your ability to build positive relationships with groups of young people to raise awareness about substance use and the associated risks and impact. 

-You will have experience of carrying out individual and group work interventions with young people and/or adults, either in an intervention or educative capacity. 

-You will have experience in using Microsoft Office Applications and other relevant data systems.  

-You can demonstrate the ability to work on your own initiative as well as be able to contribute to a multi-agency approach so as to enable effective interventions with young people, including delivering training to a range of professionals. 

-You hold a full UK drivers license and have access to you own transport.

As well as a strong commitment to your development, we offer a generous holiday entitlement, a contributory stakeholder pension, childcare vouchers and flexible working. 

The Children's Society runs over 100 local services that help thousands of young people who desperately need our support, and we campaign to get laws and policies changed to make young people's lives happier and safer.  

The Children's Society is committed to safeguarding and protecting the children and young people that we work with. As such, all posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practices across our services.

Therefore, candidates applying for work in our Youth Impact Domain will be required to complete an “Employment history_template” document prior to interview. The fully completed document should be loaded by the candidate at the point of uploading your CV.

The closing date for applications is midnight on 31st March 2025. If after 14 days, we have received enough applications we can close this vacancy from the 24th March onwards.

Interviews will be held on 8th April.

Please note that interviews will be held in person at our Chelmsford office.

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ID: 1405 Psychotherapist/Counsellor

Service: Off Centre

Salary:

- Grade 3 (upper) 24-28: £36,138 - £39,627 FTE Inclusive of Inner London Weighting

Location: Off Centre, The Textile Building, Hackney, London, E9.

We are predominantly office based but there may be an option for staff to work one day a week remotely. Our office space is wheelchair accessible. All staff are required to work on Wednesdays and one evening up to 8pm on either Monday or Thursday.

Hours: Full-time  (37 hours per week) or open to job share.

We offer flexible working arrangements - please see below for more details.

Contract: Permanent

Family Action & the Role’s Impact:

At Family Action we support people through change, challenge or crisis. It’s what we’ve done for over 150 years. We protect children, support young people and adults and offer direct, practical help to families and communities.

We see first-hand the power of family to shape lives, for better or worse, so we speak up for the

importance of family in national and local policymaking, amplify family voices and represent the changing needs of families in the UK today.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Psychotherapist / Counsellor with relevant post qualifying experience in working with young people / young adults with complex mental health and psychosocial issues to join the Off Centre team. We provide outcome focussed interventions that support resilience and / or recovery. You will be a warm, empathic individual with an ability to relate to young people and work as part of a team.

Off Centre provides early access help for young people age 16-25 with moderate to severe mental health problems. It facilitates the transition to adult services where appropriate, improves the mental well-being of young people by providing early interventions including individual, time limited and outcome focussed psychotherapy / counselling / arts psychotherapies, accessible drop in provision, therapeutic group work and keywork support.

Main Responsibilities:

· To carry out clinical and holistic, initial assessments of service users’ needs and suitability for service, including assessing risk and safeguarding issues, co-design outcome focussed treatment plan with young adult, utilizing agreed assessment and outcome tools such as CORE 10, PHQ 9 and GAD 7.

· To carry and maintain a caseload of service users receiving individual counselling / psychotherapy applying specialist knowledge and techniques of counselling / psychotherapy where appropriate during interventions. In addition, undertake the associated case management and administrative work in accordance with clinical and funding requirements. You will also co-facilitate the weekly Drop In on Thursday evenings.

· To keep excellent and up-to-date records of work with service users at all times, adhering to confidentiality and information sharing protocols in conjunction with safeguarding requirements.

· To advise and liaise with external partners involved in the mental health and wellbeing needs of clients. Contribute locally as well as regionally, to strategic planning discussions and ensure collaborative working with statutory and voluntary agencies and service providers to ensure a high quality unified service. Ensure that service-users’ views are heard and understood and inform and influence the development of local mental health services’ provision and practice.

Main Requirements (for details check the job description and person specification):

· UK recognised Psychotherapy/Counselling (MA desirable) or equivalent qualification with substantial post-qualifying clinical experience in delivering evidence based psychotherapies with young people or young adults (ideally both) with moderate to severe mental health issues, and with a focus on quality and effectiveness.

· Accredited to a relevant professional Psychotherapy/Counselling body (BACP/UKCP/HCPC).

· You will be able to demonstrate continued professional development and advanced post qualification training in relevant areas which could include areas such DBT, Systemic, Mindfulness and/or EMDR approaches and interventions. 

· Appointments are subject to Family Action receiving an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service that we consider acceptable.

Benefits:

- an annual paid leave entitlement that commences at 25 working days, rising each April by one day, subject to a maximum of 30 working days plus bank holidays / of 30 working days plus bank holidays

- up to 6% matched-pension contributions

- flexible working arrangements and new starters have the right to make flexible working requests from day one of employment

- enhanced paid sick leave and paid family leave provisions

- eye care and winter flu jabs vouchers

- cycle to work scheme

- investing in your professional development with ongoing quality training and career development opportunities

We are forward looking, ambitious and committed to continuous improvement. We are a people focused, can-do organisation, which strives for excellence in all we do and operates with mutual respect.

To Apply:

· Download and submit a completed Application Form linked to the Family Action job advert

· Closing Date: Monday 7th April 2025 at 23:59pm
To learn more about Family Action: Careers

· To help us fulfil our commitment to diversity and promoting equal opportunities: complete our anonymous Equality & Diversity Monitoring Information survey

Interviews are scheduled to take place on Thursday 24th and Friday 25th April

For direct queries or if you would like to discuss any aspect of the selection process or flexible working requests, please email Nigel Lockley (details on the website)

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion:

We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that candidates may need during the recruitment process and you will be asked whether you require any adjustments if shortlisted for interview. We also make reasonable adjustments on the job, where required.

We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Intersectionality is important to us and we particularly welcome applications from ethnically diverse communities, LGBTQIA+ candidates and disabled candidates because we are committed to increasing the representation of these groups at Family Action. We know that greater diversity will lead to even greater results for families and children and strive for our workforce to be truly representative of the diverse communities we support. We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role, and will reimburse your travel cost if you attend an interview.

*Ordinarily Family Action appoints new starters at the starting point of the salary scale (with subsequent annual pay progression), unless you have experience that would justify appointment further up the salary scale or there are any other exceptional reasons.