Student Counsellor

Closing date: Monday 6^th January 2025 by 09:00am

The University’s Student Life provision brings together a range of support services for students including counselling, mental health and well-being, disability support, and student finance.

We are seeking to appoint a suitably experienced Counsellor to work within a well-established mental well-being team providing advice, ongoing support and self-help strategies to students presenting with a range of mental wellbeing issues here at the University.

The post-holder will provide confidential, time-limited counselling interventions and brief drop-in sessions to students and will be responsible for maintaining effective client case notes and service delivery records/data.

Applicants will have relevant post-qualification experience of providing time-limited counselling to an ongoing caseload of clients. They will also be able to demonstrate experience in assessing client need, including appropriate risk assessment/identification of significant risk factors.

The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate considerable post-qualifying counselling experience, working with young adults from diverse cultural and social backgrounds, ideally within a FE/HE/third sector setting. Experience of providing counselling supervision is also desirable.

The successful candidate will be required to attend and actively contribute to multi-agency weekly risk management processes which monitor those students presenting with significant risk factors. Therefore, experience of multi-agency working is highly desirable.

Applicants should have a relevant recognised professional qualification in counselling/ psychotherapy and hold, or be able to provide evidence of substantial progress towards, practitioner accreditation with the BACP or equivalent professional body.

The post is full-time term-time post, covering approximately 34 weeks of the academic year from September/October through to June.

This post is permanent, subject to a 12-month probationary period.

For an application form and further details, please visit our website or contact us using the details below.

Liverpool Hope University
People Services
Hope Park,
Liverpool L16 9JD

Email: jobs@hope.ac.uk

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