Job Description
Job Purpose:
Working across the North Wales area providing a specialist Counseling Service to Adferiad clients. To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychological practice within the service.
Responsibilities:
- To have commitment to and demonstrate an undertaking of equality of opportunity and its relevance to different sectors within the community.
- Must demonstrate empathy towards Adferiad Recovery’s beneficiaries.
- To carry out all other tasks commensurate with the role.
Client Work
- To explain boundaries of confidentiality, exchange of information and informed consent to clients.
- To undertake assessments. To be able to recognize substance misuse issues and common mental health issues, draw out relevant information needed for an assessment using skillful and sensitive questioning.
- To make assessments based on a stepped care approach using relevant guidance such as the NICE Guidance for Commissioning Stepped Care for People with Common Mental Health Disorders
- To provide expertise in a specialist clinical area, undertaking specialist psychological interventions, formulating mutually agreed contracts for counselling and therapeutic interventions with clients; establishing, maintaining and disengaging from relationships with the client group.
- To select and deliver evidence-based client centred psychological treatments to meet the needs of the client group, monitoring outcome and modifying and adapting interventions, drawing on a range of theoretical approaches.
- Counselling, ACT, DBT, EMDR and brief interventions to be delivered in accordance with relevant NICE Guidelines.
- To undertake and manage own client caseload.
- To be accountable for own clinical decisions and professional actions in consultation with clinical supervisor.
- To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans.
- To communicate skilfully and sensitively highly complex and sensitive information, taking into account sensory and cultural barriers to communication.
- To make provision for people with limited literacy skills.
- To adhere to BACP Ethical Framework for Good Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy.
- To work in accordance with Adferiad Policies and Procedures, All Wales Child Protection Procedures and Wales Vulnerable Adults Protocol.
- Making referrals to other services and agencies, to do this in a manner consistent with the specific referral processes used by those agencies.
- To undertake clinical administrative tasks and reports relating to clients when necessary.
To refer clients to other services within Adferiad and other external agencies as appropriate. When making
General:
Administration
- To keep in regular contact with CAST Appointments Team, Associate Director for therapeutic services and Clinical Supervisor.
- Keep up- to- date records of current therapeutic and counseling work, case notes and other such pro forma as directed.
- To comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (2016).
- To make referrals to other services and agencies in accordance with guidelines.
- To attend meetings as required.
- To comply with information sharing protocols and procedures.
Professional
- To maintain BACP membership, working towards MBACP membership.
- To gain BACP Accreditation and maintain through Continuous Professional Development.
- To participate in the Adferiad Recovery continuous learning, development and appraisal process.
- To gain and maintain professional accreditation as appropriate to role.
- To attend training provided, organised or arranged by Adferiad Recovery.
- To operate within and observe Adferiad Recovery policies and procedures as amended and updated.
- Participate in the development, evaluation and amendment of practice and protocols of treatment services.
- Continue to develop professionally consistent with any qualifications held.
- Make regular use of supervision as provided by Adferiad Recovery.
- To attend training provided, organised or arranged by Adferiad Recovery.
- To operate within and observe Adferiad Recovery policies and procedures as amended and updated.
- Participate in the development, evaluation and amendment of practice and protocols of treatment services.
- Continue to develop professionally consistent with any qualifications held.
- Make regular use of supervision as provided by Adferiad Recovery.
Person specification for Sessional Counsellor:
Essential:-
- Diploma in Counselling (as a minimum)
- Current BACP membership and accreditation
Experience:-
- Post qualification counselling experience
- Experience in addictions and mental health work
- Evidence of ongoing Professional Development
Skills:-
- Effective communication skills with a particular emphasis on listening skills
- Decision making skills (specifically within the assessment process)
- Ability to manage workload, meet deadlines and work under pressure
- Ability to work autonomously as well as being a member of the team
- Competence with MS Office: Word and Outlook
- Ability to reflect on own practice
Knowledge:-
- Knowledge and understanding of the impact of mental health on individual’s lives and the stigma associated with diagnosis and labelling; the importance of working practice that doesn’t reinforce stigma.
- Knowledge of early warning signs, monitoring and relapse prevention for mental health and substance misuse problems.
- Knowledge of Mental Health legislation.
Other Relevant Requirements:-
- Driving License and access to own vehicle
- Subject to satisfactory enhanced DBS check (adults barred only)
Salary: £15.00 per hour
Based at: Various locations across North Wales
Accountable to: Associate Director, Therapeutic Services
Job Type: Zero hours contract
Salary: £15.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Company events
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Referral programme
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Colwyn Bay: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 14/06/2023
Reference ID: AC096