Counsellor / Psychological Therapist - Sheffield, United Kingdom - Sheffield Health & Social Care NHS Foundation Trust

Sheffield Health & Social Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Sheffield, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

To provide confidential and evidence-based counselling modalities in line with NICE guidance l to NHS staff needing emotional support and short term therapy for a range of professional and personal dilemmas.

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- facilitating psycho-educational groupwork as required.

To provide confidential and evidence-based counselling modalities in line with NICE guidance to NHS staff needing emotional support and short term therapy for a range of professional and personal dilemmas.

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- facilitating psycho-educational groups as required. h supervision. Contribute to counselling forums and CPD events.

We are a Health & Social Care NHS Foundation Trust providing a range of diverse services including generic & specialist mental health care; services for people with learning disability; drug & alcohol services; Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT); GP Primary Care services; dementia care services; and community based services for those with long term neurological conditions.

We promote emotional health and wellbeing through the provision of accessible high quality modern services designed around the needs of our local population.

Our culture is founded upon effective partnership working and close working relationships with staff, service users and their families/carers.

We strive to deliver consistently high-quality care through our high performing, dedicated & skillful workforce which you could now become a part of.

Our values are fundamental to ensuring people are at the heart of everything we do, our values are Respect, Compassion, Partnership.

Accountability, Fairness and Ambition.

To assess and treat people stepped to Counselling as appropriate.

To complete all mandated session by session outcome measures.

To have autonomous professional responsibility for clients referred.

To formulate and implement a counselling contract based on an appropriate conceptual framework of the persons presenting issues.

To recognise and assess risk (including child and vulnerable adult protection) and raise matters in line with IAPT/SHSC policy.

To manage all aspects of arranging and working with interpreters when assessed as necessary for the Counselling contract.

To sensitively communicate complex information to clients to encourage therapeutic engagement.

To ensure record keeping in line with SHSC policies.

This includes contemporaneous notes completed within 24 hours on the agreed patient record system, checking SHSC patient administration system prior to taking on new patients to check any risk or suitability issues and to send a discharge summary to GP practices once completed treatment.

To maintain a high level of clinical practice by attending Individual and Group Supervision; as well as being an active member of the Counsellor specific forum (pro rata if part time).

To provide evidence-based modality individual and/or group supervision as appropriate.

Participate in individual performance reviews and respond to agreed individual objectives aligned with meeting the service objectives.

To continue to gain professional training and experience over and above that provided by the service making a commitment to continual professional development.

Ensure all mandatory training is up to date in line with service protocol

Service Development

To be research aware and able to contribute to the research programmes supported by WWB where appropriate.

To act in an informed proactive manner to support improved access to the IAPT service for people who use the service.

To contribute through the WWB data set and other evaluation tools to improve the quality and effectiveness of Counselling within the Service.

To be able to use all the required electronic systems used by SHSC.

To attend clinical and practice meetings as part of the WWB team and work closely with SHSC teams where appropriate.

To contribute to the development of best practice in Counselling by continuing to develop the skills of a reflective practitioner.

To maintain an active involvement with current developments in the area of staff support, trauma in formed practice and counselling.

To maintain up to date professional knowledge and developments in psychological therapy and Counselling.

To maintain annual accreditation with a professional accrediting body relevant to providing individual psychological therapy / Counselling / psychotherapy and the required registrations for the IAPT evidence-based competency-based trainings.