Primary Care Counsellor Required: Stevenage, Hertfordshire
Main area: Counselling for Depression
Site: Roseanne House and Saffron Ground
Town: Welwyn Garden City, Ware, Stevenage
Salary: £32,306 – £39,027 per annum, pro rata. May Include High Cost Allowance – 5% basic salary, minimum payment of £1,034 and a maximum payment of £1,791 per annum pro-rata for part-time
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 07/04/2022 23:59
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 6 (qualified) or Band 6 75% (trainee)
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Full Time 37.5 hours per week (but can be negotiated))
Job ref: 367-IAPT-5744
We are seeking to recruit two Primary Care Counsellors for Depression. Candidates can be either trained in Counselling for Depression or have the appropriate qualifications to be able to attend the training.
We are pleased to advertise this position within our Wellbeing (IAPT) Service. In line with the National IAPT programme, the Wellbeing Team provides evidence based talking therapies for people with mild to moderate mental health problems. The post holder will deliver IAPT compliant Counselling for Depression to patients referred or self-referred to the IAPT Primary Care Wellbeing Service.
We would welcome applications from people preferably from a humanistic/person centred/integrative counselling background, who may also be accredited in other evidence based, IAPT compliant therapies such as CBT, IPT, DIT.
Candidates will already be trained in the Counselling for Depression modality OR will be eligible for the Counselling for Depression modality training which will be funded by our service once appointed to post.
As part of the full time role (and if of interest) there
may be opportunity to provide such alternative modalities for an agreed number of weekly sessions. Accreditation with BACP/UKCP/HCPC/BABCP is a requirement for this post.
The post requires clients to be seen face to face at local sites and as online appointments, as required and appropriate to the client.
For all posts, the Trust operates a robust Continuing Professional Development system within a Performance Management framework, including an annual appraisal and CPD review.
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