Sessional Counsellor/Psychotherapist
Job Description:
- Provide high-quality, effective, and safe remote counselling to Bupa customers over the short, medium, or longer term
- Work independently and as part of a multi-disciplinary clinical team
- Liaise daily with internal and external services, organisations, and safeguarding agencies
- Provide high-quality counselling or brief interventions with excellent clinical outcomes
- Deliver comprehensive assessments and formulations to drive evidence-based interventions
- Offer telephone or video consultations based on client preference
- Adhere to Bupa’s case management processes and collaborate with Clinical Leads and the wider therapy team
- Follow sessional limits based on the client’s company benefits
- Provide signposting or onward referrals as needed
- Offer ad-hoc or one-off wellbeing support and coaching
- Conduct one-off assessments and referral recommendations
- Deliver group psychoeducation, raise mental health awareness, and promote mental wellbeing through remote presentations, workshops, and training
- Work autonomously within professional guidelines and Bupa’s service policies and procedures
- Attend regular clinical supervision and team meetings
- Collaborate with operational and clinical teams to improve client and employee experiences
Requirements:
- BACP Accredited Counsellors/Psychotherapists
- NCPS Professional Accredited Registrants
- UKCP Registered Psychotherapeutic Counsellors/Psychotherapists
- Accreditation required at the time of application
- 3 years of full-time post-qualification counselling experience
- General adult mental health specialism experience
- Proficiency in Microsoft Systems and electronic medical record systems
- Ability to evaluate, plan, and prioritise workload within demanding time scales
- Proven customer service and client liaison experience
- Excellent clinical knowledge application
- Strong presentation and interpersonal communication skills
- Professional and personal drive
- Enthusiastic, self-motivated, and self-sufficient
- Rapid and decisive response capability
- Excellent team player
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Experience managing own caseload and working towards individual targets and outcomes
- Efficient diary management and time boundary maintenance
- High standards in written and oral communication
- Diverse and varied clinical experience
- Well-developed communication skills
- Effective time management
- Ability to work autonomously in a busy environment
- Understanding of the business environment
- Ability to work well within a multi-disciplinary team
- Awareness of KPIs and ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Effective diary utilisation planning within a two-week lead time
- Training in incident support desirable
- Corporate experience and business understanding desirable
Benefits:
- fantastic benefits
- Paid enhancements for weekends
- Equivalent to 25 days holiday per year, increasing with length of service, with the option to buy or sell
- Enhanced pension and life insurance
- Support with travel costs via a season ticket loan or cycle2work
- Discounted access to online gym sessions
- Annual performance-based bonus
- Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
- Option to join dental insurance scheme at a discounted rate
- Access to our Digital GP platform on your mobile
- Emotional wellbeing support
- Access to family mental health line
- Financial wellbeing channels
- Support for carers
- Viva global wellbeing programme covering mental, physical, financial, social, and environmental wellbeing
- Flexible working
- Family-friendly benefits
