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Job description

We are seeking an exciting RSRT Counsellor - Preceptorship Opportunity within our Right Support Right Time (RSRT) project, a transformative cross-border initiative designed to improve mental health and wellbeing, strengthen resilience and help people access the right support at the right time. As an RSRT Counsellor (Preceptorship Opportunity), you will deliver evidence-based, trauma-informed counselling interventions to individuals experiencing mild to moderate mental health and psychosocial difficulties. This may include supporting people affected by anxiety, low mood, trauma-related difficulties, substance misuse and self-harming behaviours.

Responsibilities

• Deliver individual counselling interventions to service users impacted by mild to moderate mental health and psychosocial difficulties, applying high fidelity, evidence informed therapeutic modalities in line with service specifications.
• Support clients experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties. This could include anxiety, low mood, trauma related presentations, substance misuse and self harming behaviours.
• Promote behaviours that increase resilience and prevent deterioration.
• Support service users to identify goals, enhance motivation for change, and develop practical coping strategies using evidence-based approaches (e.g. solution-focused and CBT-informed interventions)
• Under the supervision of designated senior clinical staff, complete brief standardised psychosocial assessments and work collaboratively with service users to agree appropriate counselling goals.

Skills and Qualifications

Essential Skills

• To be flexible as the role may involve travelling and working at various locations and times.
• Possess a full current driving licence and access to a car. Business Insurance will be a requirement for this post. Consideration will be given to alternative travelling proposals for applicants with a disability who cannot hold a driver's license.
• A professional Diploma in Counselling, covering psycho-dynamic, CBT and humanistic models of intervention or a person centred approach. And Committed to working towards achieving full accreditation within one calendar year of taking up post.
• Experience providing counselling (either paid or in a voluntary capacity), with a minimum of 300 post qualified supervised counselling hours.
• Experience of working with adults presenting with mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
• Demonstrates a strong understanding of the presentations of substance misuse and self-harming behaviours.
• Demonstrable knowledge and confident application of evidence based therapeutic approaches, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), and Motivational Interviewing (MI), within complex and diverse clinical presentations.
• Experience or demonstrable understanding of non-abstinence, recovery-oriented approaches to substance misuse and self-harming behaviours.
• Understanding of counselling ethics, confidentiality, and professional boundaries.
• Ability to establish and maintain a therapeutic relationship with clients with substance related needs.
• Understanding of risk management and safeguarding in a substance misuse context.
• Good written, verbal, and IT skills to enable accurate clinical documentation and reporting.