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Job description

Inspire is seeking Counsellors to join our Right Support Right Time (RSRT) project. This exciting cross-border initiative is designed to provide timely, person-centred mental health support to individuals experiencing mild to moderate emotional and psychological difficulties, helping to build resilience, improve wellbeing and prevent deterioration.

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)
• 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 is a requirement for this post.
• A professional Diploma in Counselling, covering psycho-dynamic, CBT and humanistic models of intervention or a person centred approach.
• Accreditation with voluntary assured professional standards governing bodies (e.g., BACP (Category B), BABCP, NCPS Professional Registrant Accreditation, UKCP or equivalent)
• 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.
• Written, verbal, and IT skills to enable accurate clinical documentation and reporting.