Children and Young People’s Counsellor

Job introduction

We are looking for skilled and experienced Counsellors, who are qualified to work with young people. You will be part of a pilot project providing counselling within secondary schools on an individual casework basis within school settings.

You will be part of the Schools Mental Health Service and will have the benefits of working within a multi disciplinary team, which will include full supervision.

Fixed Term Role

For an informal discussion, please contact Mehmet Agdiran at mehmet.agdiran@brighton-hove.gov.uk

About the role

You will be working in education settings, providing evidence-based treatments for young people in Secondary Schools who are presenting with psychological and emotional issues, under supervision. This will involve individual clinical work. Working within the BACP ethical framework and a CYP Counselling competence framework linked to professional standards.

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to work to a system of processes and procedures, recording and providing information accurately and timely when required.
• Ability to organise own clinical/administrative duties
• Ability to work within a context of evidence-based counselling, performance evaluation and monitoring
• Ability to monitor own competency and limitations and the ability to seek appropriate advice at an early stage.
• Ability to manage a defined caseload if required.
• Ability to be an autonomous practitioner whilst being able to work as an integral part of a multi agency locality team

Additional information

Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.

We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.

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Company information

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Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.

Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and How we create a fair and inclusive workplace.

Please note that this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.