SYP – Occupational Health Counsellor – October 2021

Role: Counsellor

Department: Occupational Health

Location:  Escafeld House

Salary: £36,369 - £40,662 

Hours: 37 per week (plus one part-time vacancy)

Contract Type: Permanent

Role Purpose:

The OH Counsellor role resides within the Wellbeing Team and is critical to the core function of the overall wellbeing service. The role is required to provide psychological support for the workforce in the form of counselling, psychological health screening and health promotion services. Support can either be through the direct provision of appropriate services or via signposting to agreed external services. Specific areas for counselling include; post-traumatic stress, work related stress, bereavement, depression, anxiety, ill health and psychological resilience strategies.

Key responsibilities include the following:

• Delivery of comprehensive quality counselling services in line with the South Yorkshire Police Counselling Policy and governing bodies.
• Conduct appropriate counselling, wellbeing and risk assessment services in line with policy, signposting to additional services, where required.
• To work within a trauma informed framework focussing on solutions and support in line with South Yorkshire Police’s Counselling Policy.
• Apply therapeutic modalities effectively and flexibly to counselling work in order to respond to client needs.
• Conduct Psychological Health Screening (PHS) as part of the PHS programme e.g. Sexual Offence/Child Abuse Unit, Traffic, Family Liaison Officers, Criminal Investigations Department (CID) etc.
• Plan, prioritise and manage own caseload within agreed timescales and frequency as indicated in the Force service agreement.

Skills and experience required includes:

• Must have a Diploma/degree/postgraduate qualification and BACP accreditation (or be eligible for this) with at least 3 years relevant post qualifying counselling experience, preferably in a Police Occupational Health Workplace setting.
• Qualified and experienced in at least two other modalities such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, trauma based therapy, Hypnosis or EMDR.
• Experience with Psychological Health Screening is desirable.
• Experienced in managing own case load, keeping accurate comprehensive records, assessment interviews, maintenance of waiting list, allocation of appointments and signposting to external services as appropriate.
• Experience of working in specific areas of counselling including risk assessment, safeguarding, trauma, work related stress, depression, anxiety, ill health, bereavement and psychological resilience strategies.

For further information relating to the role and tasks of this position, please refer to the attached role profile.

Benefits:

We offer generous entitlements and supportive policies to enable a better work-life balance, some of which are listed below:

• Generous annual leave allowance
• Flexible and agile working
• Generous ‘family’ leave
• Voluntary CPD Events for all staff to allow continuous development
• Mentoring & Coaching Scheme
• Paid Professional Subscriptions when relevant to role
• Access to a range of occupational health facilities
• Generous pension scheme
• Employee assistance service (accessible 24/7)
• Additional benefits for Westfield Health members
• Cycle to work scheme
• Sports and Social Club

Eligibility:

• Applicants must meet the minimum requirement checkable history criteria, which must be taken into account for individuals applying to work with South Yorkshire Police in any capacity. A minimum checkable history of 5 years is required for this role and successfully undergoing recruitment vetting procedure is a pre-requisite of employment with South Yorkshire Police.

Appearance & Standards:

All tattoos and piercings must be in line with South Yorkshire Police’s Appearance and Standards policy.  Tattoos visible on your face, neck, hands or head are not permitted.  Any tattoos which could be deemed inappropriate or cause offence will also not be accepted.  If you have tattoos, you will need to make a declaration at the time of application.

Closing Date:

26 October 2021 at 23:55

Closing dates are not normally extended, other than in exceptional circumstances and agreement is made with the Talent Acquisition Manager, Recruitment and the Line Manager for the role.

Contact point for applicants:

For further information about the role, please contact Bev Bond or Sara Addison on 07469 412686.  Please do not contact this number for an application form.

Further Information:

Please note requests for Part Time working will be considered for these positions. 

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Diversity & Inclusion:

South Yorkshire Police welcome applications from under-represented communities.  For further information on diversity and inclusion within South Yorkshire Police, please visit the diversity and inclusion page:

https://www.southyorkshire.police.uk/sign-up/join-team-syp/diversity-in-the-force/

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Note to candidates:

Please note that, should you be successful at the interview stage, the relevant internal or external pre-employment checks are required.  These include vetting clearance or review, prior to being appointed to the new role and start date being agreed.