The Health, Work & Wellbeing Department are looking to recruit a Band 6 Counsellor on a full time permanent basis!
The Health, Work and Wellbeing department is a team of clinicians, practitioners and administration staff who support Trust employees and client staff throughout their employment.
This role is to support the Health, Work and Wellbeing provision and activities and ensure that all Health and wellbeing activity is relevant for service delivery. As well as processing information, where appropriate as per Policy and Procedures.
* The post holder will be required to support appropriate Health and Wellbeing services to staff and managers.
* The post holder will assist in the delivery of a safe, effective, quality occupational health service.
* The post holder will strive to support and deliver counselling and wellbeing provision to staff and managers and work as part of a wider multidisciplinary team to ensure the organisation delivers 5-star patient care.
* Supporting and driving change within health and wellbeing.
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.
Our Services:
* Acute Care
* Primary Care
* Community Services
* Specialist Regional Services
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Community Services
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
Specialist Regional Services
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
Achievements:
* Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
* Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
* National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship P
KEY DUTIES
* To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and as part of the health and wellbeing team.
* Manage a caseload of clients who are presenting with moderate mental health difficulties which include Stress, anxiety, depression etc.
* To support and assist with onward referrals to other services, as appropriate (mental health services, GP etc.)
* To provide a range of evidence-based health and wellbeing interventions.
* To ensure that the work and practices are patient focused, responsive to need and culturally sensitive.
ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES
* Contribute to the achievement of the Trust and health, work and wellbeing objectives.
* To follow Trust and health, work and wellbeing guidelines in relation to confidentiality and record keeping practices.
* To audit appropriate health and wellbeing information, publishing findings where appropriate.
* Contribute to continuous improvement in the efficiency and effectiveness of the health, work and wellbeing services.
* Take ownership for new and development of health and wellbeing procedures, including therapy interventions required for service delivery.
* Seek customer service feedback from designated areas of responsibility and make recommendations to the Assistant Director of Health, Work and Wellbeing and wider senior leadership teams.
TEACHING & TRAINING RESPONSIBILITIES
* Assist in the induction and development of the Health, Work and Wellbeing team.
* Prepared to develop personal skills and experience through working with others in the health, work and wellbeing department.
RESEARCH & AUDIT
* Contribute and support in audits as required by SEQOHS.
This advert closes on Tuesday 14 Oct 2025
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