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

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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Bodmin, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

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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Job ref

Site

Talking Therapies

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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

11/06/2023 23:59

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Interview date

21/06/2023Thank 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:

They would carry a small caseload of their own PCE-CfD clients to continue to keep their practice up to date.

Being qualified in another modality such as Interpersonal Psychotherapy or Couples Therapy for Depression also would be highly desirable for this post and supervision training would also be available in this area as and when appropriate.

Main duties of the job:

The post holder will be an experienced counsellor and supervisor holding a recognised qualification, accredited with BACP/UKCP/NCS and potentially IPTUK.

This is a faced-paced role, carrying responsibility at Senior level for the implementation of supervision in the service to support the Counselling and Psychotherapy Lead.

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, be well organised and flexible to providing adequate support for clinical work.

The post holder will be responsible for offering independent clinical supervision both one to one and in groups. You will also take part in designing and delivering CPD events and other relevant tasks. 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, evidence-based 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