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Salary Range: £32,073 to £39,043 (pro rata) depending on experience
Reporting to: Children’s and Adults Lead Counsellor
Hours of work: 8 hours per week over 1 or 2 days
Purpose:
To work with the lead counsellor to provide high-quality counselling to adults, children and young people in accordance with Hospice criteria, working as part of a multidisciplinary clinical team and promoting the ethos and values of the Hospice.
The post holder will be confident and competent in working therapeutically across both adult and children and young people's services and will bring a structured, organised and proactive approach to their clinical, administrative and practical responsibilities within the Counselling and Family Support Service.
Key Tasks:
- Working within the Hospice team to provide a high-quality counselling service that is responsive, ethical, safe and effective.
- Able to provide counselling from the hospice base or in people’s own homes/place they call home/school environment
- Work with the person at the centre and form effective therapeutic alliances whilst maintaining professional boundaries.
- Carry out needs assessments and provide an appropriate service to clients with varying presenting issues and levels of distress.
- Appropriately use different therapeutic tools, depending upon the needs of individual clients to help clients cope and recover accordingly.
- Maintain confidential, up-to-date and accurate records of all counselling sessions using the hospice’s patient recording system, carefully considering the sensitive nature of this work and taking account of the potential for access to health records, statutory investigations and court proceedings.
- Work within the hospice’s Counselling Framework and adhere to the ethical framework for good practice in counselling and psychotherapy of the relevant governing body e.g. BACP, UKCP, BABCP, BAPT.
- Continuously work towards and support the development of best practice in therapeutic interventions with clients in a Hospice environment.
- Able to deliver training to staff and/or external agencies as required in relation to counselling and/or bereavement support
- Regularly review the counselling work and incorporate BHH outcome monitoring tools for all who use the service.
- Facilitate the contribution of service user feedback ensuring that service users’ voices are heard within BHH.
- Positively promote the service in the wider community and represent BHH in an appropriate way, consistent with the organisation’s values.
- Liaise with referrers, other professionals and agencies as appropriate.
- Ensure that BHH policies and procedures are always adhered to including working within Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults, Data Protection guidelines and Equality and Diversity.
- Maintain safe spaces and working practices, and at no time acting in a way which might jeopardise the health and safety of any client, employee or visitor to any BHH premises.
- Undertake all mandatory training as deemed relevant to the role by the Hospice
- Maintain own clinical supervision in line with BACP Guidelines
This job description describes the main duties of the post holder and is not exhaustive. It will be reviewed with the post holder as part of the regular performance review and development procedure. This job description does not form part of the Service Contract.
Pay: £32,073.00-£39,043.00 per year
Education:
- Diploma of Higher Education (required)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person
