Counsellor Required: Crawley/Horsham, Sussex
Counsellor Required: Crawley/Horsham, Sussex
Band: Band 7
Salary: £43,742 to £50,056 a year per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number:150-KW8501-CHI-B
NHS West Sussex Talking Therapies is a well established, highly performing service.
This is an exciting opportunityto 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.
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. Whilst NHS West Sussex Talking Therapies has bases across the whole of West Sussex, you will be based in either Crawley or Horsham which fall within 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.
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 holding an additional NHS Talking Therapies qualification,such as IPT, DIT, PCE-CfD or CTfD are appointed at Agenda for Change Band 7. Applicants who do not hold an additional NHS Talking Therapies qualification will be recruited at Band 6 and must be willing to undertake training and achieve certification in an NHS Talking Therapies approved module within 12 months. Once achieved, you will move up to Band 7 (please note that this training is funded by the service).
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.
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