Counsellor Required (Help For Heroes): Remote
The Vacancy
Location: Remote
Hours: 35.00 – Due to the needs of the service this is a full-time position, Monday to Friday.
Job Type: Full time, Permanent
About the Role
Counsellors are accountable for the assessment, formulation, and treatment planning for clients referred to our Psychological Wellbeing Service up to and including Step 3 level of support. They are also responsible for generating individual risk support plans for beneficiaries based upon psychological wellbeing assessments enabling wider recovery teams to support beneficiaries to safely participate in a variety of recovery activities. You will have a chance to deliver evidence-based group psychoeducation programmes and work within a multidisciplinary team dedicated to providing high-class service to our Armed Forces community.
About You
You will have graduated from a BACP accredited course, or professional counselling or psychotherapy training and are a BACP accredited counsellor or have significant experience and be eligible for accreditation and willing to work towards it.
You will have exceptional communication skills with an emphasis on compassionate, ethical, and supportive language and manner. You will also be able to interpret psychometric scores and perform psychological wellbeing assessments to appropriately identify the level of support needed as well as onward refer individuals where their level of need falls outside of the scope of available service provision. If you have these qualifications, skills, and experience then this might be the role for you.
About the Team
Our Hidden Wounds Team is pivotal in delivering on our mission to support the armed forces community to live well after service, and in championing mental health. Our services are primarily delivered nationally through remote means, and you will be joining a diverse team of multidisciplinary experts within the field of veteran mental health support.
About Us
Help for Heroes believes those who serve our country deserve support when they’re wounded. Every day, men and women have to leave their career in the Armed Forces as a result of physical or psychological wounds. The Charity helps them, and their families, to recover and get on with their lives. It has already supported more than 26,500 people and won’t stop until every wounded veteran gets the support they deserve.
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