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Job description

We are delighted to offer 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.

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 in respect of applicants with a disability who cannot hold a licence.
• 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.

Further Information

Location - Unit 9 Southern ITEC Business Park, 52 Armagh Road, Newry, BT35 6DN.