# High intensity counsellor

**Company**: Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: £55524.00 to £62652.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a High Intensity Accredited Counsellor (Band 7) with a particular interest, experience, and firm commitment to working to deliver effective brief treatments.

The service works across diverse patient groups presenting with a wide range of psychological difficulties.

To qualify for Band 7, applicants would need a qualification in at least one IAPT-approved modality. A supervision qualification is desirable.

The post offers a range of developmental opportunities, including screening, supervision, lead areas, waiting list/pathway management, audit & research. Experience is highly desirable; however, training can be provided.

**Main Duties of the Job**

- Provide specialist psychotherapeutic assessment and treatment of patients referred to Harrow Talking Therapies for High Intensity Counselling.

- Formulate and implement plans for the specialist psychotherapeutic treatment and/or management of patients' mental health problems, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of those problems derived from a broad theoretical knowledge of counselling.

- Be responsible for implementing a range of specialist High Intensity Counselling, and other IAPT modalities interventions for individual patients, couples, and groups.

- Comply with caseload and set activity requirements which include number of contacts and recovery rates.

- Regular and prompt entry of clinical data relating to patients on caseload.

- Regularly monitor and evaluate therapy programmes and progress.

- Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options, taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors.

**About Us** The Counselling Team is a friendly, highly experienced, and supportive team of clinicians. The post holder will receive regular supervision and support from the senior management team, as well as benefit from support and guidance from colleagues, regular reflective practice, and highly specialist CPD.

**Benefits**

- Competitive salary: £55,524 to £62,652 per annum

- Generous allowance for home-based working

- Regular supervision and support

- Opportunities for professional development and growth

**Requirements**

- Qualification from a BACP-approved Diploma in Counselling or equivalent, or qualified as a Counselling Psychologist, or qualified as a Psychodynamic psychotherapist or counsellor, with substantial specialist knowledge, theory, and skills of Counselling acquired through diploma/degrees with professional Accreditation.

- Professional Accreditation on the Professional Standards Authority register of Accredited Counsellors (MBACP [Accred], UKCP, BACP BPC, HCPC, UKAHPP, National Counselling Society Professional Accreditation) Or Registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the HCPC.

- Practitioner qualification in an accredited IAPT modality (Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT), Person Centred Experiential Counselling for Depression (PCE-CfD), Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), Couples Therapy for Depression (CTfD)).

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## Skills

### Required
- IAPT-approved modality
- BACP accreditation
- psychotherapeutic assessment
- counselling
- clinical data entry

### Nice to have
- supervision qualification
- additional IAPT modality
- specialist psychotherapeutic working experience
- teaching, training, and supervision experience

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