Counselling Student Placement - London, United Kingdom - Humankind Charity

Humankind Charity

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Vacancy No

VN3896

Employment Type

Student

Hours Per Week

3.00

Work Pattern

Includes weekends & evenings

Location

Seven Sisters Road
London N15 6HR

Location Region

South East

Location City

London

Location Postal Code

N15 6HR

Interview Date

29 Mar 2024

Job Details

Counsellor
Student
Placement

About the role

Haringey Recovery and Treatment Services (HARTS) delivers psychosocial and activity-based interventions for adults in recovery from drug and alcohol use.

The service works in partnership
- with other local services such as drug and alcohol treatment services, family and young people's services, social services, criminal justice, mental health teams and other community projects

The Counselling and Psychotherapy Service is a team that provides time bound counselling and psychological therapies to adults in recovery from addictions and work is offered both face to face and remotely

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Core tasks:

Provide once weekly sessions
Maintain a minimum caseload of three clients
Clinical recording on the case management system in compliance with the service's clinical governance and risk management protocol
Attend a monthly case management meeting
Attend fortnightly internal _or_ external supervision (external supervision is sourced by the Volunteer/ Student Counsellor)
Attend team meetings when required
Take part in training relevant to the role
Liaise with other professionals involved in clients' care

What Support Will I Receive?

Induction and ongoing training relevant to your role
Fortnightly individual or group supervision
Monthly individual Case Management meeting
Access to our online training platform LearningKind

Role Requirements

For Student Placements: currently undertaking counselling (minimum Level 4, Year 2) psychotherapy/psychologist training that leads to professional registration with a relevant governing body such as BPC, UKCP, BACP, BPS, AD (FDAP)
If not intending to access the internally provided clinical supervision, to have the means to access external clinical supervision for their clinical work.

- _ Either_ be engaging in personal therapy _or_ have at least one year experience of personal therapy.

Ability to work with people who may have offending behaviour, substance use and/or mental health difficulties with sensitivity and respect.
Capacity to reflect on their therapeutic work, consider the impact on them of working with challenging and complex clients and ability to discuss this in supervision.
To have good communication skills when dealing with staff, volunteers, clients, and other professionals.
To be committed, patient and reliable to support the aims of the service.
To have adequate IT skills.

Who are we
Humankind is one of England's most successful home-grown charities. We provide free, confidential support for alcohol, drugs, housing, or mental health in friendly local places across the UK.

We are committed to fair chances for all and making sure everyone can access the help and support they need to realise their potential.

By joining our teams of passionate individuals, you will be contributing to making this happen.

You can really make a difference by believing in our service users and their ability to make positive changes when they don't always believe in themselves.

We are incredibly proud of the work that we do to help address health inequalities in England. Every five minutes, an individual accesses one of our services, and we have supported over 90,000 people across all our services last year. Check out our impact report
here to read more about the important work that we have done.

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Humankind is an equal opportunities employer

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