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Job summary

Main area
Occupational Health
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
222-CORP-966
Employer
West London NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
St Bernard's Hospital
Town
London
Salary
£44,485 - £52,521 Per annum inc HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
05/11/2025 23:59

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Staff Counsellor & Support Advisor

Band 6

West London NHS Trust  provides a full range of mental health, community  and physical healthcare services for children, adults and older people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow.

We also provide some specialist services that are commissioned regionally, such as our medium secure services; and nationally, such as the Cassel Hospital for people with complex and severe personality disorder and our high secure services at Broadmoor Hospital.

Job overview

The Health at Work team is responsible for promoting and maintaining the physical and psychological health and well-being of the Trust’s staff. 

We wish to recruit a qualified counsellor with experience of working in a small team to provide short term face to face counselling to staff. Training in group facilitation, mediation, EMDR and Critical Incident Stress debriefing  would also be desirable. You will be required to work across 2 clinic sites, Ealing (Southall, Middx) and Broadmoor (Crowthorne, Berkshire). 

You must have or be working towards BACP accreditation or its equivalent. NHS experience is desirable but applicants without NHS experience will also be considered.

Main duties of the job

To work as part of the Staff Counselling Service delivering professional high quality proactive staff support services to employees of West London Mental Health NHS Trust and other external customers.
 
Key Result Areas & Performance:
 
•To provide a one to one counselling service to NHS staff in a Health at Work Service.
 
•To act ethically at all times in accordance with the BACP Ethical Framework for good practice in counselling and psychotherapy. 
 
•To work as an autonomous practitioner within the interdisciplinary team.
 
•Deliver appropriate training sessions on stress and resilience and effective witness training.
 
 
Counselling 
•Use counselling interventions effectively within a quality framework, valuing diversity and working with a trans-model in all areas.
 
•To use counselling interventions effectively with a wide range of work related and personal issues, including working with frightened or hostile defensive clients. 
 
 

Working for our organisation

West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse healthcare providers in the UK, delivering a range of mental health and physical healthcare and community services. The Trust runs Broadmoor Hospital, one of three high secure hospitals in the country, with an international reputation.
 
Our high secure services care for patients from South of England and we provide low and medium secure services across eight London boroughs. The Trust also provides mental and physical healthcare in three London boroughs (Ealing, Hounslow and   Hammersmith & Fulham). We employ 4,500 staff, of whom 56% are BME. Our turnover for 2023-24 is £426m.
 
The Trust is rated as ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commission. Forensic services are rated as ‘Outstanding’.
 
The Trust is an established partner and contributor in the development of the evolving North West London Integrated Care System and the Integrated Care Board. The Trust leads the NW London Children and Adolescent Mental Health provider collaborative.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached.
 
The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.

Person specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential criteria
  • Counselling/psychotherapy training to Diploma/Degree level.
  • BACP/UKCP/BPS registered practitioner(equivalent/registration/accreditation)
Desirable criteria
  • Other counselling/therapy certificates e.g. CBT

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Minimum 1 year staff counselling role.
Desirable criteria
  • Minimum 2 years counselling in an organisational setting

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Fair Train work experience quality standard - gold standardNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleJob share policyInvestors in PeopleDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - BronzeArmed Forces Covenant

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Rose Salimu
Job title
Senior Occupational Health Advisor
Email address
[email protected]
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