Healthy Minds Lincolnshire Counsellor

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join our Horncastle Healthy Minds service as a Counsellor at Band 5 (Agenda for Change) on a 12 month fixed term contract or secondment. This role is part of an ongoing pilot project, providing a counselling offer to children and young people who access our Healthy Minds Lincolnshire service. This project is an opportunity to make a real difference in outcomes for children, young people and their families by offering early support in the form of counselling intervention. The Healthy Minds Lincolnshire service supports children and young people aged 0-19 who are presenting with emotional wellbeing or mental health problems, which are of a low level of complexity and/or intensity, by offering a variety of evidence based interventions. We are really excited to continue to pilot this additional intervention offer in the form of counselling. This is advertised as full-time post operating Monday to Friday 9am-5pm, however other working patterns can be considered., The post holder will provide assessments and counselling for children & young people who suffer a range of emotional wellbeing and common mental health problems, and monitor the effectiveness of the intervention. You will be a key link person for Education Settings within your area. You will provide guidance and liaison to education providers and support in embedding the whole school approach. You will provide emotional wellbeing support to children and young people including their parents/carers and wider support network. Support will be provided by the Counsellor in groups, workshops and on a one-to-one basis. You will also provide management and clinical supervision to the B4 Practitioners within the team.

Working for our organisation Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do. You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this! We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services. This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post. When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria. We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:

• Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy
• Competitive annual leave allowance
• Car leasing scheme
• Childcare Vouchers
• NHS pension scheme
• Free eye tests
• Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants
Get in touch today: Our friendly team is here to answer any questions you may have about our roles. For more information, please contact Elle Twelvetrees via email at [email protected] or by telephone .