Counsellor or Psychotherapist (Adults And Children)
Location: Various
Hours: 30.0 hours per week (To include evenings and some weekend work)
Salary: £37,870 (Pro-rota)
What we do
Compton Care is proud to provide care and support to those living with life limiting conditions through several dedicated but also interlinked service including our inpatient unit, community care, our living well centre, and supportive care services.
What will you do?
As a Counsellor or Psychotherapist, you will work alongside Counselling, Support teams and Clinical Services in providing support and appropriate advice to patients and their families dealing with the impact of their life-limiting or incurable illness.
You will be the first point of contact for those referred to our services and will take a proactive approach to processing and managing referrals, whilst delivering and developing support group.
What we want you to bring.
You will need experience of providing care in a health or social setting as well as holding a professional qualification such as BACP, HCPC or UKCP. You will need to have excellent verbal and written communication skill, be able to support and hold group meeting as well as one to one meeting and have hands on knowledge of working with evaluations, audits and outcome.
You should be able to demonstrate the ability to be compassionate and sensitive towards our service users, your colleagues and volunteers.
You should be able to use IT and be familiar with packages such as Word and Excel.
Please refer to the full Job Description for further details and requirements for the role.
About our recruitment process:
Please note that we reserve the right to close a vacancy before the published closing date where applicant volume is high.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a Enhanced submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions. It is also subject to satisfactory references and occupational health clearance.
