Counsellor Specialist - Slough, United Kingdom - Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

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Slough, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our small, established counselling team working for the Maternity and Neonatal Departments in an acute hospital setting.

The Counselling Service provides a comprehensive service to inpatients, outpatients, relatives, and staff. It offers short to mid-term therapeutic intervention for individuals and couples.

The Counselling Service provides a comprehensive service to inpatients, outpatients, relatives and staff. It offers short to mid-term therapeutic intervention for individuals and couples.

The post holder will:

Be responsible for delivering high quality psychotherapy
Provide comprehensive specialist psychological assessment
Provide specialist therapy for clients suffering from a range of issues including complex trauma, acute or chronic illness, bereavement, multiple loss, and infertility
Provide consultation to colleagues and liaise with multidisciplinary teams whilst working autonomously within professional guidelines.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our threecore values, and the behaviors that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other,Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical, and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.

The post holders will be responsible for delivering high quality time-limited therapy to patients, relatives and staff referred to the Counselling Service following a recent complex, often traumatic, bereavement or inpatient experience.

This will involve providing comprehensive specialist psychological assessments, liaising with multidisciplinary teams and providing consultation to colleagues and families, whilst working autonomously within professional guidelines, exercising personal responsibility for the systematic governance of professional practice.

Clinical casework primarily involves providing specialist therapy for individuals and couples suffering from a range of issues associated with complex trauma, acute or chronic illness, bereavement, multiple loss, infertility, and disability.