Children & Young People’s Counsellor
Job Description:
Overall objectives to:
- Work directly with individual young people to enhance their physical, emotional, and social health and wellbeing.
- Assist in providing a high-quality counselling service to young people.
- Deliver short-term focused therapeutic counselling sessions to young people and make referrals to other services as appropriate.
- Adhere to all policies and procedures, professional practices, and code of ethics for counsellors/therapists.
- Ensure all monitoring, reporting and data collection is undertaken and kept up to date in line with the organisation’s requirements.
- Participate in the smooth running of the organisations service delivery.
- Participate in team meetings and events.
Main Duties:
- Provide short term counselling to young people aged 7–25 years old (with emphasis on solution focused brief therapy). Any work with younger children will be discussed in advance with the counsellor and will be specific to the counsellor’s skills, training, and experience.
- Establish a trusting, respectful professional and therapeutic relationship with the young person, maintaining good time keeping and clinical boundaries.
- To work with and engage young people in a creative and realistic manner.
- Agree a counselling contract outlining confidentiality and safeguarding.
- To ensure wider services and support for young people are facilitated according to need.
- To accurately complete and maintain, all statistical and outcome measurement data, records reports, and case studies, as directed, and in accordance with specific requirements of the project on an on-going basis.
- To undertake case related administration, as required and directed by the Wellbeing Clinical Manager.
Job Types: Part-time, Permanent
Salary: £27,276-£30,786 pro rata (depending on experience)
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Contribution to clinical supervision
Schedule:
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends
Licence/Certification:
- A nationally recognised counselling qualification, equivalent to Diploma Level 5 or higher, is required
Work Location: In person
How to apply:
First download and complete an application form: 4YP Job Application Form. Clicking this link should download the form to your computer or mobile device.
Then upload your completed application form online here: 4YP Job Application Portal
For more information about the role or support with the application process, please contact us at 01473 252607 (during office hours) or email enquiries@4yp.org.uk.
