Accredited Counsellor
Employer: Help for Heroes
Location: Remote with the expectation of occasional travel
Working hours: Full time, 35 hours per week, Monday - Friday
Salary: £35,805 per annum
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The Vacancy
About the Role
Counsellors are accountable for the assessment, formulation, and treatment planning for clients referred to our Psychological Wellbeing Service up to and including Step 3 level of support. They are also responsible for generating individual risk support plans for beneficiaries based upon psychological wellbeing assessments enabling wider recovery teams to support beneficiaries to safely participate in a variety of recovery activities. You will have a chance to deliver evidence-based group psychoeducation programmes and work within a multidisciplinary team dedicated to providing high class service to our Armed Forces community.
About You
You will have graduated from a BACP accredited course, or professional counselling or psychotherapy training and are a BACP accredited counsellor or have significant experience and be eligible for accreditation and willing to work towards.
You will have exceptional communication skills with an emphasis on compassionate, ethical and supportive language and manner. You will also be able to interpret psychometric scores and perform psychological wellbeing assessments to appropriately identify the level of support needed as well as onward refer individuals where their level of need falls outside of the scope of available service provision. If you have these qualifications, skills and experience then this might be the role for you.
About the Team
Our Hidden Wounds Team is pivotal in delivering on our mission to support the armed forces community to live well after service, and in championing mental health. Our services are primarily delivered nationally through remote means, and you will be joining a diverse team of multidiscipline experts within the field of veteran mental health support.
At Help for Heroes, we help the Armed Forces community live well after service. Life can be tough when a military career comes to an end, especially if it has been cut short by illness or injury. Overnight, people lose not only their job, but also a support network that is like family. There are many ways we help veterans, their relatives, serving personnel, and people who worked alongside the UK military. We help people with their physical and mental health needs, and a range of welfare issues. Our support gives people the skills, confidence and knowledge to make a success of life after service.
Salary: £35,805
Location: Remote with the expectation of occasional travel
Hours: 35 per week, Monday - Friday. Due to the needs of the service this is a full time position.
Contract type: Permanent
Closing date: 6th July 2025
Please note: This vacancy may close earlier than the advertised closing date if a high volume of applications is received, so we encourage early submissions.
Interview Information: This will be a 2 stage interview process.
First interviews are due to be scheduled for the week commencing 7th & 14th July. Final interviews will be scheduled for the week commencing 21st July. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted with further details.
Help for Heroes value diversity and inclusion and welcome applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds.
About Us
Help for Heroes believes those who serve our country deserve support when they’re wounded. Every day, men and women have to leave their career in the Armed Forces as a result of physical or psychological wounds. The Charity helps them, and their families, to recover and get on with their lives. It has already supported more than 26,500 people and won’t stop until every wounded veteran gets the support they deserve.
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