Well-being and Safeguarding Counsellor

The Rape and Sexual Abuse Support Centre (Rape Crisis South London) is looking for a therapist with experience of working therapeutically with acute high risk presentations to join our Children and Young People’s Counselling Service as a Well-being and Safeguarding Counsellor. Working alongside play therapists, family prevention practitioners and school well-being counsellors, you will provide specialist therapy to girls and young women aged 5+ in hubs across the South London Boroughs. If you feel passionate about providing high quality, trauma-informed therapy to survivors of sexual violence and have experience of counselling young people, then this is the role for you.

We will provide the successful candidates with:

●      Clinical supervision

●      A salary of £36,000 - £38,000, dependent on experience, pro rata

●      An in-depth induction training programme which includes the different types of sexual violence, impacts and coping strategies and the RASASC empowerment model

●      Regular CPD and developmental opportunities

●      Annual leave entitlement is 27 days a year plus bank holidays (pro rata) plus the period of 25 December -1 January.

●      NEST pension scheme; 3% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution.

●      Travel loan and cycle to work scheme. 

●      Access to a range of benefits including My GP Anytime, My Employment Assistance Programme, My Online Health Assessments, My Perks and The Health Shield scheme.

The successful candidates will work 3 days a week between Monday – Friday 9am – 8pm. This is a hybrid role which includes a minimum of two days a week in the community or our Croydon office.

The post is open to female applicants only as the role is deemed to be a genuine occupational requirement under Schedule 9, Paragraph 1 of the Equality Act 2010.

RASASC is an equal opportunities employer, and we are particularly keen to receive applications from women underrepresented in the violence against women and girls movement.

We will assess applications on a rolling basis and applications may close at any time, if we find enough high-quality candidates.