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Counsellor

Employer
Not For Profit People
Location
Homebased, with regular travel across Cornwall
Salary
Circa £26,000 per annum
Closing date
25 Feb 2022

Job Details

Counsellor

This is an exciting opportunity for two experienced counsellors to join the Emotional Support Team in Cornwall.

Position: Stroke Support Coordinator/Counsellor - Emotional Support x2 roles available

Location: Homebased, with regular travel across Cornwall

Hours: 35 hours per week

Salary: Circa £26,000 per annum

Contract: This is a fixed term contract until 31 March 2025. Three years funding for this role has been provided from The Elwyn Thomas Memorial Fund, funding will expire 31 March 2025

Benefits: 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays (this will increase with service up to 30 days, full time equivalent) cashback and discount scheme, employee assistance programme, learning and development, pension scheme, Life Assurance, Eye Care vouchers, Long Service Award, Tax-free childcare, Health Cash Plan, Working Pattern Agreement, flexible working opportunities available.

Closing Date: 6 March 2022

Interview Date: 14 March and 15 March 2022

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic interviews may be held via video conferencing. Please let us know if this will present any challenges when you email your application

The Role

The project funded by the Elwyn Thomas Memorial Fund will deliver an Emotional Support Service as well as through collaborative community working, will result in valuable assets for the community, in the shape of self-sustaining peer and volunteer led support through groups, partnerships and activities.

Reporting to the Emotional Support Service Manager, the team will deliver a professional counselling service to stroke survivors, carers and relatives. Counselling sessions are designed to help clients to develop emotional resilience, readjust to life after stroke and prepare to reintegrate into community life.

Key responsibilities will include:

 

  • Providing one to one counselling to stroke survivors, carers and relatives including those with communication or cognitive difficulties
  • Providing counselling sessions in person, on-line or by telephone, throughout Cornwall
  • Assessing the appropriateness of counselling for service users by providing emotional needs assessment sessions as well as using appropriate screening/evaluation tools (e.g. CORE)
  • Managing risk and safeguarding issues in accordance with appropriate legal, ethical and organisational requirements.

 

About You

You will have:

 

  • An advanced diploma in integrative, humanistic or person-centred counselling/psychotherapy; for example, BACP recognised course or equivalent (i.e. 450 hours’ skills and theory, 100 hours of supervised practice, 20 hours of personal therapy)
  • A minimum of 1-year post qualification supervised clinical practice
  • BACP registration (or equivalent) and actively working towards accreditation
  • Experience of delivering short-term counselling
  • Experience of working with people with cognitive impairment

 

The use of a car with business use cover and the ability to drive is essential to be able to fulfil the requirements of the role. The successful applicant must be able to travel independently to carry out the requirements of the post without relying on public transport

To fulfil the role, you must abode within the U.K and have the right to work in the U.K

Please submit your CV and a covering letter of no more than two pages demonstrating how you meet the person specification and what you bring to the role in terms of your skills and experience. Please state the reference to the role you are applying for.

About the Organisation

When stroke strikes, part of your brain shuts down. And so does a part of you. That’s because a stroke happens in the brain, the control centre for who we are and what we can do. It happens every five minutes in the UK and changes lives instantly. Recovery is tough, but with the right specialist support and a ton of courage and determination, the brain can adapt.

Everyone deserves to live the best life they can after stroke. And it’s a team effort to get there.

The charity provides specialist support, funds critical research and campaigns to make sure people affected by stroke get the very best care and support to rebuild their lives.

The organisation is working to improve the diversity of the team. Because individuality leads to a richer experience for its people and better support for those affected by stroke.

People from all backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply. And particularly applications from those with lived experience of stroke and those from under-represented communities.

Every five minutes, stroke destroys lives. Help rebuild them and join the team.

In 2019, the charity developed a bold new corporate strategy so that they can rebuild more lives after stroke and make a bigger difference to people’s lives. To help deliver the strategy and make a real difference, we are looking to recruit talented people to a number of new roles. If you would like to support stroke survivors to rebuild their lives, we want to hear from you!

You may also have experience in areas such as Support Manager, Emotional Support, Counsellor, Emotional Support Mentor, Emotional Wellbeing, Wellbeing Worker, Social and Emotional Support, Mental Health Worker, Counsellor, Therapist, Junior Counsellor, Senior Counsellor, Mental Health Counsellor, Stroke Counsellor, Community Based Counsellor, Counselling Psychologist, Psychotherapist, Clinical Counsellor, Online Counsellor, Telephone Counsellor, Emotional Support, Emotional Support Counsellor, Stroke, Rehabilitation.

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We are Not-For-Profit People.

We recruit exclusively for organisations in the challenging Not-For-Profit sector. We’re fully behind the charities and bodies that aim to change the world – one project at a time. Whether you’re seeking exceptional leaders, committed staff or a combination of the two, you probably want to know exactly how we’re different and why it matters to you. We don’t do business as usual. We deliver a recruitment solution that replaces clunky, costly, contracted processes with a single, seamless solution.

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