SYP - Occupational Health Counsellor - January 2023

Ecclesfield, Escafeld House
£32,409 - £37,074 (with Market rate supplement to £37,953)
Permanent

Role:     Occupational Health Counsellor             

Department:     Occupational Health

Location:            Escafeld House, Ecclesfield -Hybrid

Salary:                £32,409 - £37,074 (with Market rate supplement to £37,953)

Hours:                 37 hours per week

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 therapy include; post-traumatic stress, work related stress, bereavement, depression, anxiety, ill health and psychological resilience strategies.

Some key responsibilities of the role are:

  • Delivery of comprehensive quality therapy services in line with the South Yorkshire Police policies and good practice guidance of governing bodies including BACP.
  • Conduct appropriate short term, work-based therapy, wellbeing and risk assessment services in line with policy, including signposting to services, where required.
  • To work within a trauma informed framework focussing on occupational health and wellbeing in line with South Yorkshire Police policies and procedures.
  • Apply therapeutic modalities effectively and flexibly to respond to the occupational health needs of employees.
  • Conduct Psychological Health Surveillance (PHS) including structured interviews 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:

  • Must have a Diploma/degree/postgraduate qualification in clinical counselling therapy.
  • Have attained 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 trauma focussed therapy, TF-Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or EMDR.
  • Experience with assessing psychological risk
  • Experience with Psychological Health Surveillance 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 therapy 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 hybrid 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:

SYP is committed to striking a proportionate balance between self-expression and the need to maintain role sensitive professional standards in dress and appearance. Officers, staff and volunteers of South Yorkshire Police are permitted to have tattoos visible whilst on duty provided the tattoo is not considered to be unacceptable or otherwise inappropriate. Tattoos will be reviewed as part of the recruitment and selection process.  

South Yorkshire Police’s Key Values:

Please find attached information sheet on South Yorkshire Police’s Key Values. The force has a particular focus on three areas, Fairness, Integrity and Trust. Under each of these three headings there are key behaviours we expect all employees to adhere to.

Smarter ways of Working:

South Yorkshire Police is committed to developing working practices which assist staff to balance their personal and professional lives, whilst meeting the needs of the organisation. This in turn enables SYP to provide an outstanding service to the community.

There are 3 different categories as part of this which are: Fixed, Field and Hybrid.

This role has been evaluated as a Hybrid role.

Hybrid: Applicable when the work can be undertaken at any location, whether that be a SYP building or from home.

Closing Date: Thursday 2 February 2023 at 23:55

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

Contact point for applicants:

For further information about the role, please contact Bev Bond on 07464986552.  Please do not contact this number for an application form.

Further Information:

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Diversity & Inclusion:

South Yorkshire Police welcomes 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/

If you are from an underrepresented group and want to find out more about the support we can offer, please contact our dedicated team on positiveaction@southyorks.pnn.police.uk

In addition, we will look to support anyone who requires Part Time/Job share working hours.

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.

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