Counsellor - William Harvey Hospital, Ashford

📍On-site & Remote, William Harvey Hospital (WHH), Kennington Rd, Willesborough, Ashford TN24 0LZ | Full-time/Part-time (Minimum 3 days on-site)

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):

As a member of our EAP team, you’ll provide a 24/7 confidential support service via telephone, virtual and face to face counselling and support, for issues such as depression, anxiety, stress, debt advice and family issues. You will also be based on one of East Kent NHS Trust's sites, providing short-term counselling to NHS Employees in person.

In your role, you’ll utilise technology to stay connected to the team environment, but also engage with home-based working, delivering structured counselling to employees across public and private sector organisations.

Day to day you can expect to:

• Telephone assessments and referrals for ongoing psychological support
• Video and face-to-face counselling sessions for NHS employees
• Delivering Psychoeducation workshops and Trauma Support
  
• Signposting clients to external resources for specialist support
• Offering real-time support to employees and managers, including high-risk cases
• Assisting the EAP Team with referral work and administrative tasks
• Set shifts: 8am–4pm
• Occasional on-call duties (max 3 times/year)
• Bank holiday cover (on a rotational basis)

To be successful you’ll have:

• Level 4 Diploma in Counselling (essential)
• Accredited membership with BACP / NCPS
• Experience in telephone and face-to-face counselling
• 400+ clinical hours post-qualification
• Strong understanding of trauma-informed approaches
• Experience within an EAP setting (advantageous)
• Computer literacy and the ability to work autonomously and in a team

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!