Counsellor - Newark Hospital

📍UK Hybrid │ Newark Hospital (Boundary Road, Newark NG24 4DE)

Does this sound like you?

You’re a psychological care clinician looking to embed yourself in an organisation that can support you and help you grow , both personally and professionally. You’d love to feel encouraged and appreciated from day one, with a comprehensive onboarding experience and training for your role.

Day to day you’ll benefit from one-to-one clinical and peer supervision and case management alongside a monthly programme to enable your continuous professional development .

It’s important to you that the company you’re part of is impactful and solves real-world problems . You’re looking for an opportunity to be highly visible and absolutely integral to the growth and success of the business.

What you’ll be doing (in a nutshell):

In this hybrid role, you’ll split your time between home working and providing in-person counselling from our Newark Hospital site (Boundary Road, Newark NG24 4DE). As part of our clinical team, you’ll offer short-term, solution-focused therapy to employees across various sectors—helping clients manage both work-related and personal challenges. This includes depression, anxiety, family concerns, financial worries, and more.

Day to day you can expect to:

• Deliver short-term, solution-focused counselling (face-to-face, telephone, and virtual)
• Conduct clinical assessments, manage risk, and complete sessional notes
• Support our triage and management teams from home
• Refer clients for ongoing psychological support where appropriate
• Provide psychoeducation and signpost clients to external services
• Support employees and managers through advice, calls, and brief interventions
• Contribute to internal CBT programmes and handle escalated risk calls
• Offer on-site counselling from the Newark Hospital site at least once per week

To be successful you’ll have:

• A minimum Level 4 Diploma or Postgraduate qualification in Counselling/Psychotherapy
• Registered or accredited membership with BACP or NCS (essential)
• At least 2 years ’ post-qualification counselling experience and 400+ clinical hours
• Confidence in delivering short-term, solution-focused therapy across multiple formats
• Experience working within an EAP or multidisciplinary environment
• An understanding of trauma-informed approaches

You’ll also bring:

• Strong digital literacy (Microsoft Teams, Zoom, case management systems, secure file handling)
• Ability to manage your own caseload and complete reports accurately
• Familiarity with CORE Net (or similar clinical data platforms)
• Commitment to professional standards and continuous improvement
• Excellent organisational and communication skills

Please note, all applicants must be legally entitled to accept and perform work in the UK and all positions are subject to an enhanced DBS check.

Why Perkbox Vivup?

In an exciting stride forward for both organisations, employee benefits experts Perkbox and Vivup have joined forces to create a world-class benefits, wellbeing, and engagement platform.

With over two decades of combined experience, our goal is to enable more organisations to better support and engage their employees — something which has become essential in the wake of a global pandemic and a hard-hitting cost-of-living crisis.  

From enhancing access to specialist mental health services to helping staff manage the cost of everyday essentials, our combined strengths and best-in-class solutions will create a super partnership that supports employees in all areas of life, at every stage of their career, both in and out of the workplace.

As a combined entity, we can assist more employees than ever before to live and work better through our combined expertise in the public, private, SME, and corporate sectors. Today, we collectively support more than 4 million employees across 7,500 organisations through an enhanced range of benefits and engagement solutions.  Our vision is to create healthy, happy and engaged workforces by reinventing employee benefits. Together, we’re positioned to revolutionise the employee benefits landscape, driving innovation, setting new standards, and shaping the future with transformative solutions that redefine wellbeing.

The Interview Process

Our interview process involves 3 main stages:

• Application
• 30 minute call with a member of the TA team
• 60-minute video call with Hiring Manager and one other team member

Our average process takes around 2-3 weeks, but we will always work around your availability. You will have the chance to speak to our recruitment team at various points during your process. If you have any specific questions ahead of this, please contact us on [email protected]

We’re committed to being an inclusive employer and creating a fair workplace for all. We encourage applications from candidates across all backgrounds, circumstances, ages, disabilities, ethnicities, religions or beliefs, gender identities, or sexual orientations

We're happy to offer reasonable adjustments during our hiring process. Just let us know, and we'll make it work for you. Your comfort and success matter to us!