Staff Counsellor Required: Retford, Nottinghamshire

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Nottinghamshire Healthcare’s Staff Counselling Team working. Enabling the post holder to provide highly specialised counselling and workshops to employees of the Trust and valuable knowledge and experience to develop the service.

Our Staff Counselling services are offered in a variety of hospital and community based settings including High and Medium Secure, throughout Nottinghamshire and beyond in addition to remote services

Main duties of the job

Reporting to Clinical Team Leaders, you will provide an essential service to employees throughout the Trust’s vast geographical footprint, enabling individuals referred with emotional difficulties to cope more effectively, with the aim of preventing deterioration in their well-being.  You will be responsible for providing confidential assessment and ongoing counselling to staff with professional or personal issues, including post-incident support. We are also looking to develop workshops for teams and managers

This is a specialist role in a team that forms a core part of Nottinghamshire Healthcare’s staff health and wellbeing offer, providing an excellent and unique opportunity for candidates with accreditation through a national psychotherapy/counselling accrediting organisation to gain experience .