Job summary
Location: Covering all of North Yorkshire but predominantly working in Knaresborough and Harrogate.
Salary: Scale PO6-9 SCP 39 42, £24,461 - £26,490 per annum, (Full time equivalent £43,098 - £46,674)
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time 21 hours per week,working Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
We are looking to appoint a Health and Wellbeing Counsellor, to join our Health and Wellbeing Department, where you will provide confidential psychological support and counselling to individuals within NYP, NYFRS and the OPFCC.
As Health and Wellbeing Counsellor you will be part of a dedicated team who deliver an effective wellbeing support service.A large part of this involves delivering education and prevention strategies across all organisations, throughout North Yorkshire. You will contribute to the development, promotion, and review of all initiatives for managing health at work, including a psychological screening service for high-risk roles.
Main duties of the job
- Provide a professional and confidential support and counselling service to individuals.
- Engage in the delivery of proactive programmes, working collaboratively with colleagues and managers to explore options and develop proactive solutions to enhance the wellbeing of employees.
- Provide a support service for staff and their managers in identified roles where routine screening is required.
- Provide support and management information to assist with future planning of the service and assessment of the impact of staff care provision.
- Develop and maintain relationships and partnerships to support the achievement of objectives.
- Provide an input on welfare and related issues.
- Participate in service groups to actively contribute to seek to continuously improve wellbeing services including implementation of relevant processes, procedures, and guidance in line with codes of practice and legislation.
- Promote and enhance the concept of staff counselling and wellbeing.
- Liaise with the wider People Services teams regarding general staff care issues, training needs, policy, and practice.
- Complete statistical information to identify any organisational issues or wellbeing trends within the workforce.
- Advising the organisations on psychological occupational health related issues.
- Actively pursue research or project work on specific initiatives.
- Deliver education and prevention initiatives.
About us
North Yorkshire Police is a family, we work together to support our local communities. We are one of the safest counties in England and we work hard to keep it that way.
As a forward thinking and diverse organisation we are keen to engage with people from all sectors, backgrounds and communities. We view diversity as fundamental to our success. To tackle todays complex policing challenges; we need a workforce made up from all of North Yorkshires communities. We also encourage applications from both the private and public sector.
Job description
Job responsibilities
As a health and wellbeing counsellor you will provide confidential psychological support and
counselling to individuals who are stressed or distressed by either work related or personal
issues, or those with a mental health problem or diagnosis within NYP, NYFRS and the OPFCC.
You will contribute to the development, promotion and review of all polices and
initiatives for managing health at work including a high quality psychological screening
service for high risk roles identified across all organisations.
You will deliver a high quality wellbeing support service including effective education and
prevention strategies across NYP and NYFRS and OPFCC in-line with the key performance
indicators, and offer development ideas for continuous improvement.
Through effective delivery of qualities psychological wellbeing initiatives you will help create a
healthy workforce to bring value to frontline services.
Job description
Job responsibilities
As a health and wellbeing counsellor you will provide confidential psychological support and
counselling to individuals who are stressed or distressed by either work related or personal
issues, or those with a mental health problem or diagnosis within NYP, NYFRS and the OPFCC.
You will contribute to the development, promotion and review of all polices and
initiatives for managing health at work including a high quality psychological screening
service for high risk roles identified across all organisations.
You will deliver a high quality wellbeing support service including effective education and
prevention strategies across NYP and NYFRS and OPFCC in-line with the key performance
indicators, and offer development ideas for continuous improvement.
Through effective delivery of qualities psychological wellbeing initiatives you will help create a
healthy workforce to bring value to frontline services.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- To succeed in this role you will have recognised training in either counselling or psychotherapy to at least Diploma level or equivalent and have registration with UKCP, BACP as well as significant and varied post qualifying experience, including trauma work.
- You should be accredited to one of these governing bodies or be willing to work towards this and a qualification in trauma therapy, such as EMDR or trauma focused CBT.
Desirable
- Experiencing of providing psychological support in an organisational setting would be an advantage.
Vetting clearance
Essential
- The need for the residency rule arises from the requirement to
- vet all applicants in an equitable manner. This is because the UK
- police service does not currently have any means of routinely
- facilitating vetting enquiries overseas to the extent required for
- those who are resident in the UK.
- The purpose of the residency criteria is to ensure that applicants
- have a checkable history in the UK, so that meaningful vetting
- enquiries can be undertaken. The criteria provide reassurance
- when considering the health and safety of police personnel and
- the public. Effective vetting cannot be conducted if there is no way
- to assess the honesty, integrity, reliability and overall suitability for
- clearance of appointees against the information available.
- The residency requirements refer to the period immediately before
- an application is made, and not any other three-, five-, or ten-year
- period, or any other accumulation of time spent in the UK.
- For the purposes of force vetting, the following residency
- requirements apply:
- non-police personnel vetting three years
- recruitment vetting three years
- management vetting five years
- If the vetting applicant has been living outside the UK while
- serving with the armed forces or on government service, they
- are classed as being resident in the UK. An individual travelling
- overseas on a gap year or similar is considered to be on an
- extended holiday and has therefore maintained residency in
- the UK.
- Checkable history can be obtained through verification of the
- subjects address history or employment references.
Experience
Essential
- Significant and varied post qualifying experience, including trauma work.
- Be able to communicate and deliver relevant wellbeing interventions at all levels.
- Have excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage a demanding caseload.
- Be able to effectively cope with the pressures of providing psychological counselling support across all organisations.
Desirable
- Experiencing of providing psychological support in an organisational setting would be an advantage, as would a qualification in trauma therapy, such as EMDR or trauma focused CBT.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- To succeed in this role you will have recognised training in either counselling or psychotherapy to at least Diploma level or equivalent and have registration with UKCP, BACP as well as significant and varied post qualifying experience, including trauma work.
- You should be accredited to one of these governing bodies or be willing to work towards this and a qualification in trauma therapy, such as EMDR or trauma focused CBT.
Desirable
- Experiencing of providing psychological support in an organisational setting would be an advantage.
Vetting clearance
Essential
- The need for the residency rule arises from the requirement to
- vet all applicants in an equitable manner. This is because the UK
- police service does not currently have any means of routinely
- facilitating vetting enquiries overseas to the extent required for
- those who are resident in the UK.
- The purpose of the residency criteria is to ensure that applicants
- have a checkable history in the UK, so that meaningful vetting
- enquiries can be undertaken. The criteria provide reassurance
- when considering the health and safety of police personnel and
- the public. Effective vetting cannot be conducted if there is no way
- to assess the honesty, integrity, reliability and overall suitability for
- clearance of appointees against the information available.
- The residency requirements refer to the period immediately before
- an application is made, and not any other three-, five-, or ten-year
- period, or any other accumulation of time spent in the UK.
- For the purposes of force vetting, the following residency
- requirements apply:
- non-police personnel vetting three years
- recruitment vetting three years
- management vetting five years
- If the vetting applicant has been living outside the UK while
- serving with the armed forces or on government service, they
- are classed as being resident in the UK. An individual travelling
- overseas on a gap year or similar is considered to be on an
- extended holiday and has therefore maintained residency in
- the UK.
- Checkable history can be obtained through verification of the
- subjects address history or employment references.
Experience
Essential
- Significant and varied post qualifying experience, including trauma work.
- Be able to communicate and deliver relevant wellbeing interventions at all levels.
- Have excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage a demanding caseload.
- Be able to effectively cope with the pressures of providing psychological counselling support across all organisations.
Desirable
- Experiencing of providing psychological support in an organisational setting would be an advantage, as would a qualification in trauma therapy, such as EMDR or trauma focused CBT.