Senior Primary Care Counsellor - Band 7

£46,836 - £52,849 Inc HCAS per annum pro rata

We are looking for an experienced Accredited Counsellor to fill a position in our friendly, and supportive IAPT service. You will join a large, well-integrated team of counsellors, CBT therapists, PWPs and trainees. Applicants must have extensive experience of delivering brief focussed counselling in a primary care setting.

We are also looking for applicants who alongside their counselling accreditation or counselling psychology registration have completed a qualification training in an IAPT approved modality (such as Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy, Couples Therapy for Depression, Interpersonal Therapy or Counselling for Depression).

To provide psychological counselling to clients of the Talk Together Bromley (IAPT) service: providing assessment and treatment and offering advice and consultation on clients’ psychological care to referrers, family members and carers.

To lead on the provision and management of counselling placements within the Talk Together Bromley service.

To provide specialist consultation on and lead on the development of an agreed designated area of the service.

Bromley Healthcare is a great place to work. The unique way in which we deliver services and offer everyone who works here a voice, means that your career with us will be rewarding.
Bromley Healthcare is a community interest company providing a wide range of services including community nursing services such as district nursing, health visiting to specialist nurses, as well as therapy services for children, young people and adults.

Salary is dependent on NHS experience and current banding/pay point.

Excellent benefits package available including various pension schemes, discounted gym membership, cycle to work scheme, discounted electronics, access to EAP, high street discounts, Blue Light Card eligibility, opportunity to apply for low interest personal loans and an excellent lease car scheme and we are constantly looking to expand our staff benefits.

The post holder is responsible for the provision of counselling to adults with mild, moderate and severe common mental health problems in primary care.

Responsibilities include screening of referrals, assessing and treating patients suitable for High Intensity Counselling, reporting to referrers on the patients' progress. The post holder will also contribute to routine data collection, audit and evaluation of patient measures according to the national framework for IAPT services.

Further responsibilities of the post include supervision training to provide High Intensity Counselling or IAPT modality supervision to other staff and trainees; line management responsibilities; leading on an area of service development and other management responsibilities for the wider service, in line with the grade of the post.