Change Grow Live are a charity dedicated to the belief that we can make a difference to our Service Users lives, offering support and respect in a safe environment, treating each user as an individual and working with them to find the right treatment and care options.
Our core values are ‘Be open, be compassionate and be bold’ and our team members apply these daily to achieve our mission of helping people change the direction of their lives, grow as individuals, and live life to its full potential.
We are looking for a passionate and dedicated Counselling Coordinator to be part of an established service developing and delivering counselling interventions. A key part of this role is recruiting and supporting volunteer and student counsellors as part of our community substance misuse provision, ensuring that psychological perspectives are central to everyone’s thinking.
You will support the empowerment of teams and individuals to increase knowledge, skills, and professional confidence around the needs of the people who access our services. Through consultancy, reflective practice, training, and clinical case management, you will help the wider team create an innovative and effective trauma-informed service.
Where: Cheshire
Full Time Hours: 37.5hrs per week
Full Time Salary: £34,700.09 - £36,635.37
ResponsibilitiesAbout the role:
Lead on a rolling cycle of recruitment of volunteer counsellors and counselling student and training across the year to ensure that volunteering is sustained in the service Ensure that all counselling students and volunteer counsellors are provided with a high-quality package of induction, training, clinical supervision, and appraisal to enable them to carry out their role effectively within the serviceWork with line managers to support and develop the Counselling Service Recruit and select suitable student volunteer counsellors and maintain good links with Universities and Colleges and other learning centresCarry out inductions, provide training and ongoing support for volunteer counsellorsProvide counselling interventions for clients with complex or specialist needs as appropriatePart of your role will be to evaluate and monitor the counselling service to ensure outcomes are met
About you:
Professional Level 4 (minimum) Counselling Qualification and working towards BACP accreditationWorking towards a diploma in Therapeutic Counselling Supervision or equivalent that adheres to BACP ethical principlesAn understanding of the issues facing individuals affected by substance misuse, including carers and family membersMaintain professional boundaries with professionals, colleagues and service users at all timesAbility to train counselling students and volunteers to support service users utilising a variety of interventionsMake good use of clinical supervisionExperience of recruiting, supervising and developing volunteers (desirable but not essential)
What we will give to you:
25 days holiday (+ bank holidays) rising by 1 day for each years’ service Paid ‘Wellness’ hour each week along with a ‘Wellness’ hub and Employee Assist Programme Contributory pension scheme Several benefits incl. discounts for shopping, cinema, holidays, etc. A friendly and supportive team Training, career development & progression opportunitiesEarn vouchers with our generous Refer-a-Friend scheme
Please read attached Job Description for a more detailed out line of responsibilities and Person Specifications
If this sounds like you and you would like to begin your journey with Change Grow Live, then we would love to talk to you.
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Salary Range (pro rata if part time) CGL points 31 to 33 (£34,700.09 - £36,635.37) ILW / OLW /Fringe N/A - Outside London Weighting Area Interview Date 30/9/2024 Closing Date 23/9/2024 If you have any questions on this opportunity that you would like to talk through please contact us using the below details: Amanda Taft | amanda.taft@cgl.org.uk This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level. Options ApplyApplyShareEmail this job to a friendRefer <p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">Sorry the Share function is not working properly at this moment. Please refresh the page and try again later.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"> </span></p> Share this vacancy on your newsfeed
We believe that having diverse people working as part of our team makes us the organisation that we are.
We actively encourage applications from people from all backgrounds to help us to provide the best possible experience for the people who use our services and to make Change Grow Live a great place to work. If you have any feedback on our recruitment processes (good or bad) we’d love to hear from you so that we can make sure they are fair and we attract and recruit the best, most diverse workforce possible.
The safety of vulnerable children, young people and adults is our absolute priority. We will support you in your role to make sure that you are equipped to support the safety of people who use our services and those around them, to the highest standard possible.
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