Remote Senior Counsellor/Psychotherapist

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Remote Senior Counsellor/Psychotherapist (BACP Accredited)

UK Nationwide – Remote working

Permanent

Part time - 32 hours (full-time hours also available)

Salary - Negotiable

Locations:- Central London or Salford Quays

What you'll be doing

You will either support referrals from our UK insurance business, providing 1-2-1 clinical practice to clients across a range of increasingly complex mental health conditions, or you will work directly with one of our corporate clients to support mental health awareness and referrals for their employees.

By working remotely, you will be a first point of clinical contact for people with potential mental health issues and concerns and you will provide a high quality, effective and safe mental wellbeing service across agreed sectors of care via MS Teams.

This is a dual role that will involve part clinical delivery, part senior clinical support duties.

Senior clinical support responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

• Delivery of training for mental health clinicians across the service (e.g., mental wellbeing practitioners and new starters).
• Facilitating individual and group supervision for clinicians within the team.
• Conducting regular clinical case notes audits
• Carrying out appraisals and case management reviews across teams as required
• Creation, review, and delivery of psychoeducation material for Bupa’s corporate customers.
• Contribute to reviewing and implementing new process and protocols for safe and effective delivery of services.
• Supporting recruitment and interviewing.

Who we're looking for?

• Recognised Counselling or Psychotherapy qualification (Level 4 Counselling Diploma) or higher
• A post-graduate counselling qualification (e.g. MSc, PGDip) is desirable
• A minimum of 450 supervised counselling hours
• 4 + years full-time post qualification counselling experience
• MBACP membership and accreditation (not student or individual member)
• Experience in working with complex cases.
• Prior experience of working within EAP services is desirable.
• Experience of delivering clinical supervision (individual and/or group)
• Flexible attitude to working hours.
• Strong IT skills – experienced MS Office packages (including preferably MS Teams)

What's it like to work here?

We want people to love working here, so much so that's it's at the top of our agenda and something you'll hear a lot about here at Bupa. We offer our people a great range of benefits, many of which are flexible and can be tailored to suit what's most important to you. We're a healthcare company so there's a huge focus on our people's health and wellbeing, supported by a healthy work-life balance and workplaces which are friendly, appealing spaces to support you to be at your best. Our teams are able to develop and advance their professional knowledge, skills and experience in many ways which is exceptionally helpful for their career in mental health. There are many options for career progression at Bupa. We have an exciting new Mental Health Training Academy which is evolving to include Counsellor Trainees and hosts an annual Conference for CPD.

You'll also receive:

• 25 days holiday (pro-rata), increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
• An enhanced pension plan and life assurance
• Support with travel costs via a season ticket loan or cycle2work
• Performance-based bonus
• Monthly supervision paid for
• Up to 100% of accreditation application paid for
• Blended office and home working options available
• Full induction and training provided.
• Support with your CPD
• Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available
• Various other benefits and online discounts
• Opportunities for career development around Bupa
• Option to join dental insurance scheme at a discounted rate
• Access to our Digital GP platform on your mobile
• Emotional wellbeing support
• Access to family mental health line
• Financial wellbeing channels
• Support for carers

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