Counsellor
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 01/09/2026
- Closes
- 11/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a Band 6 Counsellor within the 14 Arches Staff Psychology and Counselling service at Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust. The service provides specialist psychological support to NHS staff. The post involves delivering short-term counselling to individuals and groups, providing training, and contributing to service development. The team is expanding, offering an exciting opportunity to join a supportive environment with regular supervision and reflective practice.
Key responsibilities
- Deliver short term counselling interventions to NHS staff for a range of presenting issues.
- Contribute to the development and delivery of psychologically informed groups to promote staff wellbeing.
- Provide initial assessment of clients presenting with multiple and complex issues; select appropriate therapeutic interventions, make decisions regarding referrals to specialist services and facilitate these as needed.
- Undertake safety assessments/formulations and development of safety plans for individual clients.
- Manage safeguarding concerns and share information to ensure safeguarding in accordance with local and national policy.
- Deliver service presentations, teaching/training sessions according to service need.
Essential criteria
- oCounselling qualification and experience aligned with SCoPEd Column B or C & Accreditation with a Counselling Body identified in the SCoPED framework
- oKnowledge and experience of a range of counselling approaches
- oExperience delivering counselling interventions to adults, with a range of presentations
Desirable criteria
- oTraining and/or experience in providing supervision
- oKnowledge and/or experience of working with clients from diverse backgrounds
- oExperience working within NHS and/or mental health settings
- oExperience of providing group-based interventions
- oExperience in teaching/training
- oExperience working with complexity and a range of clinical severity
- Behaviours & Values
- oA clear interest in and commitment to working in psychological wellbeing for NHS staff
- oDemonstrate qualities of openness, honesty, compassion and empathy
- oActively promote equality, diversity and inclusion in practice
- oA commitment to showing leadership, motivating and inspiring the team
- oEnthusiasm to collaborate with the workforce to try to engage and encourage people to access the service for their own well-being, especially around people who do not typically access support.
- Knowledge & Experience
- oCounselling qualification and experience aligned with SCoPEd Column B or C & Accreditation with a Counselling Body identified in the SCoPED framework
- oKnowledge and experience of a range of counselling approaches
- oExperience delivering counselling interventions to adults, with a range of presentations
- oTraining and/or experience in providing supervision
- oKnowledge and/or experience of working with clients from diverse backgrounds
- oExperience working within NHS and/or mental health settings
- oExperience of providing group-based interventions
- oExperience in teaching/training
- oExperience working with complexity and a range of clinical severity
- Behaviours & Values
- oA clear interest in and commitment to working in psychological wellbeing for NHS staff
- oDemonstrate qualities of openness, honesty, compassion and empathy
- oActively promote equality, diversity and inclusion in practice
- oA commitment to showing leadership, motivating and inspiring the team
- oEnthusiasm to collaborate with the workforce to try to engage and encourage people to access the service for their own well-being, especially around people who do not typically access support.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 6d ago · Closes in 5d
Plenty of time to prepare a strong application.
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Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust
Counsellor
The closing date is 11 September 2026
Job summary
14 Arches, Staff Psychology and Counselling, is a psychology led service, which delivers specialist psychological support to NHFT colleagues. The team currently consists of two part-time Principal Psychologists, who are the Joint Service Leads; Senior Psychologists and Counsellors.
You would be joining the 14 Arches team at an exciting time of service expansion, in order to meet the needs of a growing NHFT workforce. We are recruiting additional Band 6 Counsellors (1.5 WTE permanent) to join the team. The role comprises working directly with individuals and groups, providing training and supporting the development of the service. This will include offering short-term counselling to individual staff around a concern which is impacting them at work. It may also involve facilitating group sessions for staff related to psychological wellbeing as well as presenting about the service and providing training sessions relevant to staff wellbeing.
The post will be line managed by one of the Joint Service Leads. Regular clinical supervision will be provided by either a Senior or Principal Psychologist within the service. We also hold regular reflective practice sessions within the team and encourage engagement with a Community of Practice for counsellors working in NHS se
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