Counsellor - Band 6
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 11/09/2026
- Closes
- 27/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for an experienced Counsellor to join the Tower Hamlets Talking Therapies service. The post-holder will provide individual and group counselling interventions for clients with mild to moderate common mental health problems, focusing on depression and anxiety. Responsibilities include conducting triage assessments, monitoring performance, and working with diverse cultural backgrounds. The role requires BACP/UKCP registration/accreditation and willingness to undertake NHS Talking Therapies training.
Key responsibilities
- Provide individual and group counselling interventions for clients with mild to moderate common mental health problems.
- Monitor performance and outcomes in conjunction with the stream lead.
- Conduct triage assessments, which may be face-to-face, via telephone, or other approved communication mediums.
- Implement a stepped care approach to clinical practice.
- Work with people from different cultural backgrounds and ages, using interpreters when necessary.
- Work one late night, in person, clinic to 7pm and a minimum of one working day a week at the office or designated community sites.
Essential criteria
- Diploma in Person Centred Counselling or equivalent Accredited with the BACP/UKCP or Eligible for accreditation with the BACP/UKCP, within the next 6 months
- Experience in delivering a variety of counselling interventions, within Primary Care Services or equivalent short term therapy Services
- Experience in conducting triage and assessments and identifying an appropriate treatment intervention and plan
- Significant experience of delivering counselling to patients who have had common mental health difficulties, specifically depression.
- Experience of 'partnership working'
- Experience of using IT system (preferably IAPTUS) for Clinical case recording, case management and supervision
- Experience of developing and running groups at Step 2 /2.5 level within a Primary Care Service.
- Experience of working with a multi - cultural client group and working with interpreters.
- Knowledge of different models of mental health/mental illness
- Knowledge of legislation and its implications for clinical practice, in relation to Mental health, safeguarding etc.
- Knowledge of NHS policies, procedures and guidelines
- Knowledge of working with diversity and knowledge of working with black, minority ethnic groups
- Knowledge of outcome measures and their use for clinical and audit purposes
- Knowledge of medication used common mental health problems, especially depression.
- Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post
- Understands the concept of stepped care and how it relates to the care of people experiencing common MH problems
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £47,951 – £56,863 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 1d ago · Closes in 16d
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East London NHS Foundation Trust
Counsellor - Band 6
The closing date is 27 September 2026
Job summary
Tower Hamlets Talking Therapies (THTT) is one of the leading national Talking Therapies services and we are keen to recruit an experienced Counsellor. The successful candidate will join our dynamic Counselling Therapies team and work alongside other therapists who are trained in a number of different modalities including; person-centred, humanistic, integrative, and psychodynamic. Other teams of therapists at THTT are trained in a range of therapies including EMDR, Eating Disorders treatment, CBT and a well-established PWP team.
We believe that staff who feel valued by the Trust and who are truly engaged in the organisation deliver better outcomes for our patients. This Trust is clinician-led and provides the highest possible level of clinical expertise throughout its services. We have set ourselves the mission to improve the quality of life of all we serve and have embarked on an ambitious Quality Improvement Programme to transform the culture of the Trust to one of continuous improvement, delivered through participation of all staff and with service users, carers, and families at the heart of our efforts to improve.
Main duties of the job
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