Employer: Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Crawley or Horsham
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 08/04/2025 23:59
Counsellor
Band 7
Job overview
NHS West Sussex Talking Therapies is a well-established, highly performing service.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the team as an accredited counsellor.
The post holder will provide Step 3, short-term individual counselling interventions, plus one other NHS Talking Therapies counselling modality, to include either PCE-CfD, IPT, DIT or CTfD.
Main duties of the job
Applicants must be either BACP Accredited or UKCP Registered as a Psychotherapist or Psychotherapeutic Counsellor, ACC Accredited, NCS Accredited Professional Registrant or British Psychoanalytic Council Registered. Applicants must also have appropriate qualifications as detailed in the person specification.
Applicants must hold an additional NHS Talking Therapies qualification, such as IPT, DIT, PCE-CfD or CTfD.
You will also need to demonstrate extensive experience of treating patients within a time-limited counselling model, as well as experience of providing triage assessments.
Working for our organisation
NHS West Sussex Talking Therapies is nationally recognised as a high performing Talking Therapies service, with a reputation for clinical excellence, innovation and collaborative working with secondary care and voluntary services. We provide a range of NICE-compliant psychological therapies for people experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties and achieve excellent recovery outcomes for our patients. We have good staff retention and an amazing supportive culture. We aim to grow inclusive staff teams, where diversity is valued and the workforce reflects the communities served.
We work with a blended working model allowing for a split of home working and working on site. Interventions are offered face to face, digitally and by telephone. While NHS West Sussex Talking Therapies has bases across the whole of West Sussex, you will be based in our North locality.
Our service ethos places patients at the centre of service delivery promoting mental wellbeing. Emotional resilience is central to the team's activity.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Applicants must be able to demonstrate a flexible approach and an enhanced ability to manage risk.
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details.
You will receive support and supervision from the Senior Psychological Therapists and will play an active role in our continued service development.
You will have access to our comprehensive professional development programme.
We provide our patients with a service between Monday - Friday 8am and 8pm, so you must be willing to work flexible hours.
The post holder will need to be willing and able to travel across the locality as required.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Recognised professional qualification to Diploma level or equivalent in Counselling or Psychotherapy
* Professional qualification which is recognised by accrediting bodies as listed in the IAPT Manual (BACP accredited, UKCP registered as a psychotherapist/psychotherapeutic counsellor, BPC registered, ACC accreditation, NCS accredited professional registrants)
* Membership of a relevant professional body
* Registration/accreditation with relevant professional body: UKCP registration, HCPC, BACP, IPT UK accreditation
* Have achieved accreditation in an IAPT-approved therapy model, such as IPT, DIT, CFD or CCFD
Experience
* Minimum of 150 hours post qualification client contacts
* Worked with a wide range of clients presenting with multiple and complex issues
* Experience and ability to manage own caseload and time
* Experience as Primary Care Counsellor
* Experience of team working within the NHS or Primary Care
* Experience of and ability to meet agreed/specified service targets for clinical work
Skills
* A range of counselling interventions in order to respond flexibly to different client needs.
* Is computer literate and experienced at using email, Outlook, Word, internet
* Has used IAPTus or equivalent computerised health record system for keeping patient records
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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