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About the Role
The appointed counsellor will work closely with counselling colleagues and also colleagues in the wider team and university, to provide a professional, high-calibre and culturally competent specialist integrative student counselling service.
Responsibilities
- Conduct counselling assessments, including the assessment of risk.
- Provide on-going counselling sessions, negotiating contract length within a short-term framework.
- Manage caseload in accordance with service guidelines and to preserve a balance of appointment type.
- Manage student risk and complexity, liaising with internal and external support where needed.
- Act as an active member of the counselling team and wider MDT, working on related projects as required.
Requirements
- Qualified, accredited and experienced counsellor, able to use a number of modalities in an integrative way to support students presenting with a variety of needs.
- Experienced in working in a higher education setting.
- Experienced in working with short term client contracts.
- Experienced in working in a flexible way dependent upon the needs of the student and the service.
- Proven experience of working with at risk and complex clients.
- Able to demonstrate high level judgement skills.
- Experience of working online is essential.
- Experience of working as part of a MDT is essential.
- Commitment to working in an inclusive and culturally competent way.
- Experience working with Global Majority, neurodiverse and vulnerable students.
Skills
- Integrative counselling modalities
- Risk assessment
- Caseload management
- Interdisciplinary team collaboration
- Online counselling
- Inclusive and culturally competent practice
- Working with Global Majority students
- Working with neurodiverse students
- Working with vulnerable students
Location
- City St George’s
Work Type
- Internal applicants only
Experience Level
- Experienced counsellor
- Experienced in higher education setting
- Experienced with short term client contracts
- Experienced with at risk and complex clients
- Experienced working online
- Experienced working as part of an MDT
Education Level
- Qualified counsellor
- Accredited counsellor
Salary/Compensations
- Sector-leading salary
Benefits
- Pension scheme
- Comprehensive package of staff training and development
About the Company
- City St George’s, University of London is the University of business, practice and the professions.
- Brings together the expertise and excellence of City, University of London and St George’s, University of London into one institution.
- One of the largest higher education destinations for London students.
- Combines a breadth of disciplines across health, business, policy, law, creativity, communications, science and technology.
- Committed to supporting students to pursue their career and personal ambitions.
- Research is engaged, at the frontier of practice and has a positive impact on the world around us.
Equal Opportunity
- Committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in all its activities, processes, and culture for our whole community, including staff, students and visitors.
- Welcome applications regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, pregnancy, race and ethnic origin, religion and belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.
- Operates a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants.