Counsellor - homeless

Job description

Job responsibilities

Delivery of one-to-one counselling for clients with complex needs and a history of homelessness and registered at St Werburghs practice.

Provide accurate information tailored to individual need and understanding regarding the counselling process.

Ensure clients receive a safe, individualised and effective service by assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating their care.

Undertake risk assessments of clients, manage risk and make appropriate referrals to specialist services where significant risk is identified.

Manage potentially hostile and antagonistic situations caused by distressing circumstances.

Participate in the maintenance and development of high-quality trauma informed support and care to clients within the service using research evidence, best practice and expert clinical judgement.

Keep up to date, accurate clinical records

Organise own caseload taking professional responsibility and exercising autonomous judgement with regard to professional practice.

Work in collaborative partnership with the MARS project and its representatives.

Ensure ethical and legal standards are maintained including client confidentiality.

Access and utilise evidence-based practice in the day-to-day delivery of the service by participating in the gathering of assessment data for the purposes of audit research and evaluation.

Disseminate, implement and apply to practice, evidence and outcomes of best practice, research, audit and other quality indicators.

Promote quality measures within the Counselling Service in accordance with Hospice policies and practices.

Participate in relevant Clinical Governance activities within the Practice.

To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with the BACP and with the Hospice policies and procedures.

Input all information collected for statistical purposes onto EMIS

Research, collate and provide accurate and timely information as required.

Ensure written and verbal communication is clear, concise, accurate, timely, well presented information and at an appropriate level for this post.

Work with shared objectives as part of a team.

Maintain security and confidentiality of manual and electronic data, allowing access to those who are authorised.

Within your position you will be expected to adhere to the Information Governance Policy that concerns your job role within the Practice.

You will be expected to attend security and confidentiality training as and when required.

Should you have any matters of concern you are encouraged to raise these with your line manager.

Be familiar with Healthy & Safety, Safeguarding, Equality & Divertsity policies

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Essential
• Diploma in counselling
• Membership of BACP/UKCP/UKATA/NCS
• Evidence of ongoing development and education in relation to different counselling approaches
• Evidence of trauma informed counselling training
• Minimum three years relevant post qualification experience
• Experience of working with individuals who have adverse childhood experiences and trauma that have an impact into adult life. This can include mental health, physical health, and addictions.
• Experience of working with highly emotive material with challenging and complex clients
• Knowledge of assessment and delivery of trauma informed counselling support, applying this knowledge to practice
• Knowledge of risk assessment and clinical outcome tools such as CORE
• Awareness of quality and diversity issues in relation to counselling support
• IT literate
• Ability to liaise with health and social care professionals across a variety of settings
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner
• Ability to work with shared objectives as part of a team
• Ability to work collaboratively with the wider multi-professional team

Desirable

• Educated to degree level
• Working towards BACP/UKCP editaccreditation / BACP Certificate of Proficiency
• Experience of facilitating groups
• Experience of working with a multi-professional team
• Experience of working in a health care setting / team environment

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Issa Medical Centre

Address

St. Werburghs Practice

George Street

Chester

CH1 3EQ

Employer's website

https://www.issamedicalgroup.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)