Counsellor

Let’s Talk Barnet IAPT team is looking for confident, reliable and flexible individuals to join the successful counselling team. You will be joining a dynamic team and we would we are looking for enthusiastic candidates who can contribute with current ideas.

You will have excellent communication skills and a real interest in and knowledge of working with adults experiencing a range of mental health difficulties and psycho-social problems in a primary care setting.

We will ensure you have a committed team to work with including a peer group of counsellors, CBT therapists, psychological well-being practitioners and employment support workers with the opportunity to help us shape and further develop the service

Please note that we welcome accredited counsellors who may not have an IAPT compliant training to apply; you will be offered this post at band 6 and supported to complete an IAPT compliant training programme to progress towards a band 7

A very high degree of mental effort is frequently necessary in terms of attention, concentration and memory. Demands include holding a client’s history and information from prior sessions in mind. Clinicians must develop and consider different hypotheses whilst making a formulation of the client’s difficulties. Concurrently, they must judge the client’s mood and ability to take in information whilst developing interventions that are sensitive, accurate and timely. Written reports conveying important and personal information of a sensitive nature must be written succinctly under time pressure.
II. Clinicians frequently work under conditions of extreme emotional effort, respond empathically to clients presenting in highly aroused emotional states, helping them to process experiences of the most extreme nature, for example, grief following the death of a child, family breakdown, serious mental illness, reports of catastrophic trauma and loss, physical and sexual abuse, rape and torture, etc.
III. Clinicians must be able to contain clients who are intensely angry, to make appropriate judgements about how to intervene and assess risk to the client and others regarding suicide or violence.

IV. In terms of physical demands, the post holder:
a. Will frequently sit in a constrained position whilst carrying out clinical sessions.
b. Will employ frequent and intensive concentration during their work.

Proposed interview date: 21st June 2023

BEHMHT is a multiple award-winning, combined mental health (MH) and community Trust providing local, regional and national healthcare services. We are one of the largest employers in North London with over 3000 staff delivering a range of mental health and community services to a population of over one million. In Enfield, we provide a full range of child and adult community health services, which over the last few years has been integrating with its mental health services to provide better and more holistic care. BEH manages the renowned North London Forensic Services (NLFS) which delivers MH care across some of the prisons and provides MH services as HM Young Offenders Institutions in Aylesbury. We are rated as 'Outstanding' by the CQC. We have also been appointed as the lead provider of forensic mental health services across North London managing the devolved New Models of care budget of £170m from 2018/19

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