Counsellor Required (Family Action): Hackney, London

Counsellor Required (Family Action): Hackney, London

Family Action

Salary: £36,138 to £39,627 a year £36,138 - £39,627 FTE Inclusive of Inner London Weighting

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time, Job share, Flexible working

Reference number: B0302-25-0000

This is an exciting opportunity for a Psychotherapist / Counsellor with relevant post qualifying experience in working with young people / young adults with complex mental health and psychosocial issues to join the Off Centre team. We provide outcome focused interventions that support resilience and/or recovery. You will be a warm, empathic individual with an ability to relate to young people and work as part of a team.

Off Centre provides early access help for young people age 16-25 with moderate to severe mental health problems. It facilitates the transition to adult services where appropriate, improves the mental well-being of young people by providing early interventions including individual, time limited and outcome focused psychotherapy/counselling/arts psychotherapies, accessible drop in provision, therapeutic group work and keywork support.

Main duties of the job

1. To carry out clinical and holistic, initial assessments of service users needs and suitability for service, including assessing risk and safeguarding issues, co-design outcome focused treatment plan with young adult, utilizing agreed assessment and outcome tools such as CORE 10, PHQ 9 and GAD 7.
2. To carry and maintain a caseload of service users receiving individual counselling or psychotherapy applying specialist knowledge and techniques of counselling or psychotherapy where appropriate during interventions. In addition, undertake the associated case management and administrative work in accordance with clinical and funding requirements. You will also co-facilitate the weekly Drop In on Thursday evenings.
3. To keep excellent and up-to-date records of work with service users at all times, adhering to confidentiality and information sharing protocols in conjunction with safeguarding requirements.
4. To advise and liaise with external partners involved in the mental health and wellbeing needs of clients. Contribute locally as well as regionally, to strategic planning discussions and ensure collaborative working with statutory and voluntary agencies and service providers to ensure a high quality unified service. Ensure that service-users views are heard and understood and inform and influence the development of local mental health services provision and practice.