Senior Counsellor - Bodmin, United Kingdom - Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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Senior Counsellor:


Band 7:


Main area

  • Counsellor and Supervisor
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Grade

  • Band 7
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Contract

  • Permanent
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Hours

  • Full time
  • Part time
  • Home or remote working
37.5 hours per week
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Site

  • Talking therapies Mid Cornwall
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Town

  • Countywide / Remote Working
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Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
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Salary period

  • Yearly
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Closing

  • 25/05/2023 23:59Thank you for your interest in joining us at
    Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.

_ Strategic Themes_

_ Great Care_
- _Care based on what matters to people. _
- _Care provided at home or close to home. _
- _Improvement through learning, research and innovation. _
- _Prevention and alternatives to hospital._


_Great Organisation_
- _Buildings that support health and wellbeing. _
- _Technology enabled care. _
- _Care teams are supported by responsive corporate services. _
- _Safe, efficient, effective and productive._


_Great People_
- _A place people love to work and feel valued. _
- _Living our values with staff (all voices count). _
- _Attract, grow and develop talent. _
- _Leaders with compassion, who continuously learn and listen._


_Great Partner_
- _Encourage and enable effective partnerships. _
- _Joined-up community services. _
- _Work with others to maximise workforce opportunities. _
- _Reduce our impact on the environment._
- _At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a 'home' office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.


_ The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19._

Job overview:

We are excited to offer this as a remote post.

There will be an expectation for you to attend face to face commitments in Cornwall up to 5 times a year as part of your contract, this includes your induction into the service.


Main duties of the job:


  • The post holder will be an experienced counsellor and supervisor holding a recognised qualification, accredited with IPTUK and ideally BACP, UKCP.
  • This is a facedpaced role, carrying responsibility at Senior level for the implementation of IPT in the service to support the Counselling and Psychotherapy Lead and our small but growing IPT team of trainees. The post holder will work in the Talking Therapies service to assess, formulate and implement psychological interventions under the guidance of supervision and within the parameters of a Talking Therapies service. You will need to be able to work on initiative and be flexible to providing adequate support for clinical work.
  • The post holder will be responsible for offering independent clinical supervision and related duties deemed appropriate within the service by the Counselling and Psychotherapy professional lead and Talking Therapies service lead.
  • As a Counselling/Psychological Therapist you will be working with individuals experiencing low mood/depression. All Talking Therapies counsellors/psychological therapists, are required to deliver high quality services through the use of routine outcome measures, evidencebased treatment, electronic record and data management systems, participation in clinical and management supervision.

Working for our organisation:

We're an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people's physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us.

As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.

We work in people's homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals.

Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.

Approximately 568,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute ho

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