Community Treatment Team Counsellor inSunderland inSunderland PUBLISHED
FRI 20 DEC 2024
Sunderland Counselling Service rZ5KebC2
The role primarily involves working in South Tyneside, but travel to Sunderland and potential home visits may be required. Candidates will interact with individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds, ensuring the use of interpreters as needed, and must demonstrate a commitment to equal opportunities. Regular participation in multi-disciplinary team meetings is necessary to identify suitable clients for counselling interventions.
Sunderland Counselling Service (SCS) is delighted to be employing two full-time counsellors to work within the Community Treatment Team, known as CTT. The CTT offers secondary care mental health interventions provided by Cumbria, Northumberland and Tyne and Wear (CNTW) across South Tyneside and Sunderland. Clients are likely to have a diagnosable mental health condition and be in receipt of support from the wider CTT.
The post holder will be expected to work closely with colleagues within this service and others, to ensure clients receive the most effective therapeutic intervention for their presenting need(s) and will play an active role in regular multi-disciplinary team meetings within the CTT to identify counselling suitable clients.
The post holders will be expected to provide assessments, check in phone calls and offer time-limited counselling to adults with a wide range of issues. Up to twenty session of counselling will be offered to clients and include work on areas such as anxiety, depression, low mood, complex grief and loss, relationship issues, loss of confidence, emotional distress, historic abuse and wellbeing issues.
The post holders will be expected to be based predominantly within the South Tyneside Team, although some travel to bases in Sunderland may also be required, to ensure clients receive the most effective therapeutic intervention for their presenting need(s). There may also be some home visits and lone working within this post.
The post holder will work with people with different cultural backgrounds and using interpreters when necessary and should be committed to equal opportunities.
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For further information relating to the role, please download a copy of the job description from the additional documents section of this advert.
You can also contact Leanne Davis (Head of Services) or Marianne Guthzeit, (Clinical Lead) from Sunderland Counselling Service on to discuss this role further.
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