The YOU Trust Hiring for Counsellor Job at Fareham, England Full Time

Location: Fareham, covering west Hampshire region

Salary: £26,422 pa pro rata

Contract Type: Permanent, Full and Part-time

Closing Date: When we have recruited successful applicants

YOU is a registered charity thathas beenproviding care, support and advice for over 30 years to vulnerable people, working across Hampshire, Dorset, West Sussex and the Isle of Wight to give them the tools and resources they need to live independent, secure and valued lives.

Essential Requirements

The ideal Counsellor will have:

• A Counselling Diploma (minimum level)
• At least 3 years’ experience of working with sexual assault survivors
• At least 1 years’ experience facilitating groups
• The ability to work flexible hours: including evenings and weekends
• A driving licence and be prepared to travel across the county

The Role

The YOU Counselling Centres Counsellor will have a range of tasks within the team including client one-to-one counselling caseload, help line support, intake screening, developing, and facilitating regular therapeutic psycho-educational group sessions. You will work with the manger to develop a team of Peer Volunteers who will work with you to deliver psychoeducational group sessions. You will be confident and creative to enable you to deliver therapeutic sessions and groups in a range of geographical locations across the south of Hampshire, meeting the needs of the people we work with.

About You

Are you person-centred in your work, responding to clients’ needs with dignity and respect? Do you act with integrity, and are you trustworthy, as required by the confidential nature of this role? Do you pursue excellence in all that I do and are you innovative in your thinking, able to recommend new ways of working to respond to what matters to our clients? If you meet these requirements, and are proactive in your work with a can-do approach, we want to hear from you! In order to be successful in your application, you will need to meet the following criteria:

You will need

· A counselling qualification at diploma level or above and minimum of three years’ experience working in a client-centred way

· A current BACP membership, and be working within the BACP Ethical Framework

You must have experience of

· Professionally supporting women and men who have experienced current or historic trauma and/or sexual violence; maintaining appropriate professional boundaries

· Undertaking strengths, needs & risk assessments

· Effective multi-agency and partnership working

· Client-centred service delivery and enabling client and volunteer involvement and be able to work as part of a team

You must have knowledge of

· The impact of sexual violence on individuals and communities

· Best practice in relation to safeguarding and confidentiality

· Criminal and civil proceedings relating to sexual violence

· Diversity and inclusion: with an ability to work in a culturally sensitive way

You will need the ability to

· Use Microsoft Office packages including Microsoft Outlook and data entry packages

· Self-reflect and develop and improve practice through ongoing training and review

· Work flexible hours including evenings, weekends when required and be part of a help-line service

· Work across identified contract area and travel for training and meeting purposes

You will also need to be a car driver with use of car for work purposes

YOU has a strong value base, striving to be person-centred, innovative, trustworthy, can-do and excellent at all times, so it is important that you are as passionate about these principles as we are.

Our Benefits

If you choose to begin a career with our organisation, you are guaranteed:

• Competitive rates of pay and paid travel time, including a higher mileage rate for car sharing.
• Enhanced annual leave entitlements, with the opportunity to buy and sell holiday.
• Matched pension scheme contributions, plus Death in Service Benefit and salary sacrifice options.
• Enhanced sick pay allowances and paid compassionate and emergency dependent leave.
• Excellent and professionally certified training, as well as access to fully funded apprenticeship programmes.
• Real opportunities to develop in your profession.
• Free health and wellbeing advice via a 24/7, confidential Employee Assistance Programme.
• Everything you need to carry out your role free of charge, which may include a mobile phone, safety equipment and other necessary technology, a uniform where applicable, and of course a nice cup of tea or coffee throughout your day!
• Access to discounts across lots of your favourite stores and online shopping sites, as well as discounted bus travel on the First bus network.
• A company that is committed to its employees, valuing their knowledge, creativity and flexibility.
• The chance to work with amazing people.

How to Apply

If this sounds like your ideal role we are keen to hear from you as soon as possible, so don’t delay, Apply today! Please click ‘Apply’ to forward your details on to us; please be sure to include your name, email address and contact telephone number. We will then contact you directly to discuss the role and ask you a few key questions to assess your suitability for this post. If you are successful in this initial screening, you will be invited along to an assessment and interview.

Alternatively, please call Viv Burgielon 07483 162 928 whowill talk to you about the service and ask you a few key questions to help assess your suitability for the role. If you are successfully screened you will then be invited for an assessment and interview.

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Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent

Salary: £26,422.00 per year

Experience:

• working with sexual assault and domestic abuse survivors: 3 years (required)
• facilitating groups: 1 year (required)

Licence/Certification:

• Driving Licence (required)

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