Remote Senior Counsellor/Psychotherapist (12 months secondment)

Job Description:

Remote Senior Counsellor/Psychotherapist (BACP Accredited)

UK Nationwide – Remote working

12 months Secondment

Part time – 4 days/ 32 hours  (full-time hours also available)

Salary – From £37,000

We make health happen:

Here you'll be welcomed. We champion diversity and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. You'll find an inclusive environment where you can be yourself and where everyone is driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.

How you’ll help us make health happen:

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:

• 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           

• Be a point of clinical escalation and offer clinical support to all clinical staff

• Working independently, and as part of a wider multi-disciplinary team

• Contribute to reviewing and implementing new process and protocols for safe and effective delivery of services

• Supporting recruitment and interviewing

• Contributing to ensure an outstanding customer experience, developing a culture that continually improves quality of services

• Works alongside the operational managers and clinical leads to ensure outstanding clinical quality, commercial awareness, and customer experience

• Continuing professional development and training in line with requirements, a minimum of 30 hours CPD per year

Key Skills/Qualifications needed for this role:

• 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

• BACP Accredited membership

• Rich and varied experience of counselling different sectors of and clients in society

• Experience in working with complex cases

• Prior experience of working within EAP services is desirable

• 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

• Monthly supervision paid for

• 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

Diversity and Inclusion

Bupa is committed to making sure that every applicant is assessed solely on personal merit and qualifications. We actively celebrate the diversity of our colleagues and provide an inclusive environment so you can bring your true self to Bupa. We'll make sure you are treated regardless of disability or circumstance. That's why we're happy to offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them. 

Whether you've found your feet or are discovering a new path. 

Welcome to a place that celebrates you. 

This isn't where you've been.  

This is where you're going. 

This is what we have belief in.

Time Type:

Part time

Job Area:

Clinical Services

Locations:

Bupa Place, London