Job Overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Counsellor Specialist to join our small, established counselling team working for the Maternity and Neonatal Departments in an acute hospital setting.
We are looking for a highly experienced practitioner, who has both stamina and commitment to work in the fields of trauma, loss, and grief. The successful candidate will either be UCKP registered or BACP accredited. Training in EMDR would be desirable but not essential as training will be provided.
The Counselling Service provides a comprehensive service to inpatients, outpatients, relatives, and staff. It offers short to mid-term therapeutic intervention for individuals and couples.
The Counselling Service provides a comprehensive service to inpatients, outpatients, relatives and staff. It offers short to mid-term therapeutic intervention for individuals and couples.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for delivering high-quality psychotherapy to individuals experiencing a wide range of psychological difficulties. This includes providing comprehensive specialist psychological assessments, using a variety of evidence-based tools and approaches to develop an in-depth understanding of clients’ needs. The role involves delivering specialist therapy to clients presenting with complex and sensitive issues such as trauma, chronic or acute illness, bereavement, infertility, and multiple losses.
The post holder will work autonomously within professional and service guidelines, exercising clinical judgement to manage complex cases and formulate appropriate care plans. They will be expected to contribute to multidisciplinary team meetings, offering specialist consultation and psychological insights to colleagues across health and social care teams. Strong communication and liaison skills are essential to ensure coordinated care and support for service users. In addition, the post holder will maintain accurate clinical records, engage in regular supervision, and contribute to service evaluation and development in line with clinical governance and best practice standards.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- UKCP or BACP registration
Desirable criteria
- Training in P.T.S.D, EMDR & TimeLimited Therapy.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Working with couples and indivduals
- Experience and expertise in working with traumatic stress and complex trauma.
- Experience and expertise in working with complex bereavement.
- Experience of working in NHS or equivalent.
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework
Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to use a variety of methods to work with trauma and complex bereavement
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of at least 2 specialised psychological therapies relevant to time limited therapy
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
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