Job Description:
Remote Senior Counsellor/Psychotherapist (BACP Accredited)
UK Nationwide – Remote working
Permanent
Part time – 4 days/ 32 hours (
Salary – From £37,000
We make health happen:
Here you'll be welcomed. We champion diversity and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. You'll find an inclusive environment where you can be yourself and where everyone is driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.
How you’ll help us make health happen:
You will either support referrals from our UK insurance business, providing 1-2-1 clinical practice to clients across a range of increasingly complex mental health conditions, or you will work directly with one of our corporate clients to support mental health awareness and referrals for their employees.
By working remotely, you will be a first point of clinical contact for people with potential mental health issues and concerns and you will provide a high quality, effective and safe mental wellbeing service across agreed sectors of care via MS Teams.
This is a dual role that will involve part clinical delivery, part senior clinical support duties.
Senior clinical support responsibilities will include:
1. Delivery of training for mental health clinicians across the service (e.g., mental wellbeing practitioners and new starters)
2. Facilitating individual and group supervision for clinicians within the team
3. Conducting regular clinical case notes audits
4. Carrying out appraisals and case management reviews across teams as required
5. Creation, review, and delivery of psychoeducation material for Bupa’s corporate customers
6. Be a point of clinical escalation and offer clinical support to all clinical staff
7. Working independently, and as part of a wider multi-disciplinary team
8. Contribute to reviewing and implementing new process and protocols for safe and effective delivery of services
9. Supporting recruitment and interviewing
10. Contributing to ensure an outstanding customer experience, developing a culture that continually improves quality of services
11. Works alongside the operational managers and clinical leads to ensure outstanding clinical quality, commercial awareness, and customer experience
12. Continuing professional development and training in line with requirements, a minimum of 30 hours CPD per year
Key Skills/Qualifications needed for this role:
13. Recognised Counselling or Psychotherapy qualification (Level 4 Counselling Diploma) or higher
14. A post-graduate counselling qualification (e.g. MSc, PGDip) is desirable
15. A minimum of 450 supervised counselling hours
16. 4 + years full-time post qualification counselling experience
17. BACP Accredited membership
18. Rich and varied experience of counselling different sectors of and clients in society
19. Experience in working with complex cases
20. Prior experience of working within EAP services is desirable
21. Flexible attitude to working hours
22. Strong IT skills – experienced MS Office packages (including preferably MS Teams)
What's it like to work here?
We want people to love working here, so much so that's it's at the top of our agenda and something you'll hear a lot about here at Bupa. We offer our people a great range of benefits, many of which are flexible and can be tailored to suit what's most important to you. We're a healthcare company so there's a huge focus on our people's health and wellbeing, supported by a healthy work-life balance and workplaces which are friendly, appealing spaces to support you to be at your best. Our teams are able to develop and advance their professional knowledge, skills and experience in many ways which is exceptionally helpful for their career in mental health. There are many options for career progression at Bupa. We have an exciting new Mental Health Training Academy which is evolving to include Counsellor Trainees and hosts an annual Conference for CPD.
You'll also receive:
23. 25 days holiday (pro-rata), increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
24. Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
25. An enhanced pension plan and life assurance
26. Monthly supervision paid for
27. Support with your CPD
28. Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available
29. Various other benefits and online discounts
30. Opportunities for career development around Bupa
31. Option to join dental insurance scheme at a discounted rate
32. Access to our Digital GP platform on your mobile
33. Emotional wellbeing support
34. Access to family mental health line
35. Financial wellbeing channels
36. Support for carers