Healthy Minds Lincolnshire Counsellor

We currently have two exciting opportunities to join our Healthy Minds Lincolnshire service as a Counsellor at Band 5 (Agenda for Change). These two roles are part of a 6 month 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 intervetions. We are really excited to pilot an additional intervention offer in the form of counselling. The service currently has teams based across the county in Boston, Horncastle Lincoln and Grantham.

Whilst we are offering the posts as substantive posts, please be aware that if the pilot comes to an end, we would look to offer suitable alternative employment within the Trust.

This is advertised as full-time post operating Monday to Friday 9am-5pm, however other working patterns can be considered and base can be negotiated.

For more information, please contact Kirsty Aspin or Becky Sowerby

This Job description is currently subject to job evaluation.

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.

The B5 Healthy Minds Lincolnshire Counsellor will be a key link person for Education Settings within their area. They will provide guidance and liaison to education providers and support in embedding the whole school approach. They 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.

The B5 Counsellor will also provide management and clinical supervision to the B4 Practitioners within the team.

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.

Provide telephone consultations for children/young people and families (CYP-F) to establish the most appropriate intervention or signpost/refer to most appropriate service.

Formulate, implement and evaluate counselling therapy programmes for CYP

Co-ordinate, lead and deliver groups and workshops for children and young people (CYP) and parents.

Provide one-to-one intervention for a caseload of CYP. Manage clinical risk and safeguarding concerns.

Provide advice/consultation to school staff and other professionals (e.g., children’s services) to upskill them in supporting the emotional wellbeing of CYP.

Liaise with other professionals/services re. referrals and according to CYP needs.

Attend Pastoral Support Plan (PSP) meetings with schools where a child is identified as experiencing emotionally based school avoidance (EBSA).

Provide monthly clinical supervision to education staff in term time.