Counsellor volunteer roles in southport, merseyside

RNIB's Sight Loss Counselling Team is an established team of telephone counsellors. Accredited by the BACP, we offer free and confidential counselling and emotional support to people affected by sight loss. Volunteers will either be qualified counsellors/psychotherapists; having completed a BACP accredited training or equivalent OR be students in the final stages of counselling or psychotherapy.

How often will I be needed?

• 4 Hours per Week

Key requirements

• This role requires 2 references and a criminal record check: DBS Enhanced PVG Scotland Adults Access NI Enhanced

Location

Region

• West Midlands, Wales, Northern Ireland, North West, North East, East Midlands, East of England, South East, Scotland, Greater London, Yorkshire and the Humber, South West

Home based

• This role is home based

Additional location information

• Our service is completely remote and therefore home based. You will be able to gain clinical hours towards your counselling qualification;

Who this opportunity will suit

Minimum age

• You must be at least 16 years old to apply

What skills and experience are needed?

• Ability to communicate clearly;Approachable & empathetic nature;Effective listening skills;Friendliness, enthusiasm and reliability;Work with wide range of people

Volunteer Psychotherapist

Will you share your counselling or psychotherapy skills?

We're looking for one qualified counsellor/psychotherapist or someone with over 100 supervised clinical hours.

Ideally, we would like someone with some experience of working with women from ethnically minoritised backgrounds

Making a difference

Your Impact?

You will join Hopscotch Women’s Centre during a critical and growth period and your expert knowledge and experience will be invaluable to the happiness of our team. You will have a key role in supporting front line staff who may be in need. With your help we hope to expand our voluntary therapy services to ensure the team receive high quality psychological support that they may not have been offered before in any workplace

What you will gain? 

You will be a part of our small, friendly, forward-thinking charity team, focused on reaching service users who are vulnerable. This is a fantastic opportunity for you to make a real difference in our team members’ lives through caring psychological support

Job Description

As a Volunteer Counsellor/Therapist you will provide:

· Online/telephone counselling/therapy support services to individual staff members in Hopscotch, who may be in need. The team have access to reflective supervision and external clinical supervision but sometimes need personal support for issues they are facing

· One-to-one counselling sessions online or by phone. With your recognised counselling qualifications, accreditation, insurance and experience you will be an asset to our small charity team

In this role you’ll be able to develop your counselling and therapy skills within an organisation which is person-centred and fiercely trauma-informed

What the role involves

This role may vary depending on needs, but is likely to include:

• Working with individual team members, as needs arise, over and above their clinical supervision. The team member may be experts in health and social care, domestic violence, mental health issues, or any of our other services
• Undertake an assessment session, followed by time-limited counselling with an integrative approach based on humanistic values (via Zoom or phone) to our staff, offering each up to 6 sessions
• Maintain succinct, relevant session notes and store these securely
• Maintaining client confidentiality, upholding data protection and equal opportunities principle
• Attend your own monthly supervision in line with your professional body’s code of ethics, to ensure safe working practices
• Completing paperwork for a DBS check with Hopscotch

What you need for this role

Essential

• Be a member - including student membership - of one of the recognised organisations (see below)
• Level 4 Diploma qualification as a minimum (or be studying towards one)
• Certificate in online counselling such as How to Do Counselling Online by Open University & BACP
• Minimum of 100 hours of supervised counselling hours
• Evidence of professional indemnity insurance and clinical supervision
• Able to keep people’s personal data safe
• Willing and able to provide counselling via Zoom from a private location with a stable WiFi connection
• Able to support a minimum of one team member a week and we request a minimum commitment of one year

Desirable

• Degree or Masters in Counselling, Counselling/Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy
• Knowledge of the issues facing ethnically minoritised women and high pressured work environments
• Committed to our values
• Approachable, presentable and compassionate

The Process

Please do share your CV and a cover letter with us. We will interview as applications come in.

If successful, we will arrange for receive your documentation including qualifications, references, insurance and supervision, before arranging an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service DBS

Recognised Organisations You Must Be A Member of:

• British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP)
• United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)
• National Counselling Society (NCS)
• British Psychoanalytical Council (BPC)

Please contact us if you have any questions

Looking forward to hearing from you!