Imperial College London Hiring for Student Counsellor Job at London, England , UK Full Time

This is an exciting opportunity to join Imperial College London’s Student Counselling Team that works as part of a main specialist Student Counselling & Mental Health Advice Service, supporting all Imperial students.

The Student Counselling and Mental Health Advice Service is a growing team which is ever-evolving to meet the needs of our students. You will be fully supported and work with and across this multi-disciplinary, dynamic service to support Imperial students and staff and will be responsible to the Deputy Head of Student Counselling & Mental Health Advice Service.

You can read more about Information our Student Counselling and Mental Health Advice Service here: www.imperial.ac.uk/counselling.

Duties and responsibilities

You will carry a significant client case load providing psychological assessment and brief counselling to students at the College.

The post holder will also contribute to:

• providing drop in appointments
• psycho-educational workshops and training on matters related to mental health and counselling
• events promoting the Service and student wellbeing across the College.

The Student Counselling Service aims to enable students to enhance their psychological health and personal effectiveness, thus empowering them to optimise their academic accomplishment, College involvement, and personal development.

This is achieved through the provision of a variety of psychological services such as assessment, individual counselling and consultation.

Essential requirements

Please note that you must have one of the following accreditations/ registrations to be considered for this post:

• full accreditation with the BACP or BABCP
• UKCP Registration
• a Counselling Psychologist with full HCPC Registration
• Experience of holding a case load of at least 20/25 clients a week gained working within an institution/organisation and not privately

Further information

Full details of this role can be found in the Job Description.

This is a part-time and open ended role, the working hours are 21 hours per week. One of the working days would need to be a Wednesday when the Service works extended hours until 7pm. The majority of annual leave is expected to be taken outside of term time.

Please demonstrate how you meet all the essential criteria and person specification in your application.

This role will be based at our South Kensington campus and other campuses as required.

As this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, at the appropriate level, will be required for the successful candidate.

Further information about the DBS disclosure process can be found at http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/agencies-public-bodies/dbs/ or by telephoning 03000 200 190. You may also wish to view the College’s DBS webpage for policy statements on the Recruitment and Employment of Ex-Offenders and the Secure Storage, Use, Retention & Disposal of Disclosures and Disclosure Information.

Documents

• JD – Student Counsellor.pdf