Counselling Student Placement

Counsellor - Student Placement
About the role
Haringey Recovery and Treatment Services (HARTS) delivers psychosocial and activity-based interventions for adults in recovery from drug and alcohol use. The service works in partnership
with other local services such as drug and alcohol treatment services, family and young people’s services, social services, criminal justice, mental health teams and other community projects
The Counselling and Psychotherapy Service is a team that provides time bound counselling and psychological therapies to adults in recovery from addictions and work is offered both face to face and remotely.
For the most part our Student Placement counsellors undertake a placement with us to gain clinical hours for experience and to meet training requirements. We welcome applications from students wishing to see clients during evenings and Saturdays, as well as normal weekday hours. Sessions will be located across the Borough and can be conducted at the service, as well as at our many partner sites.
Core tasks:

• Provide once weekly sessions
• Maintain a minimum caseload of three clients
• Clinical recording on the case management system in compliance with the service’s clinical governance and risk management protocol
• Attend a monthly case management meeting
• Attend fortnightly internal or external supervision (external supervision is sourced by the Volunteer/ Student Counsellor)
• Attend team meetings when required
• Take part in training relevant to the role
• Liaise with other professionals involved in clients’ care

What Support Will I Receive?

• Induction and ongoing training relevant to your role
• Fortnightly individual or group supervision
• Monthly individual Case Management meeting
• Access to our online training platform LearningKind

Role Requirements

• For Student Placements: currently undertaking counselling (minimum Level 4, Year 2) psychotherapy/psychologist training that leads to professional registration with a relevant governing body such as BPC, UKCP, BACP, BPS, AD (FDAP)
• If not intending to access the internally provided clinical supervision, to have the means to access external clinical supervision for their clinical work.
• Either be engaging in personal therapy or have at least one year experience of personal therapy.
• Ability to work with people who may have offending behaviour, substance use and/or mental health difficulties with sensitivity and respect.
• Capacity to reflect on their therapeutic work, consider the impact on them of working with challenging and complex clients and ability to discuss this in supervision.
• To have good communication skills when dealing with staff, volunteers, clients, and other professionals.
• To be committed, patient and reliable to support the aims of the service.
• To have adequate IT skills.

Who are we…
Humankind is one of England’s most successful home-grown charities. We provide free, confidential support for alcohol, drugs, housing, or mental health in friendly local places across the UK. We are committed to fair chances for all and making sure everyone can access the help and support they need to realise their potential. By joining our teams of passionate individuals, you will be contributing to making this happen. You can really make a difference by believing in our service users and their ability to make positive changes when they don’t always believe in themselves.
We are incredibly proud of the work that we do to help address health inequalities in England. Every five minutes, an individual accesses one of our services, and we have supported over 90,000 people across all our services last year. Check out our impact report here to read more about the important work that we have done.
Humankind is an equal opportunities employer
We value unique perspectives and experiences that everyone can bring, and fully understand the strength in diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from all backgrounds, regardless of race, gender, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, or disability. If you have a genuine passion for working for us, we want to hear for you. We also welcome applications from people with lived experience with substance use. If you require support with your application, please contact the Recruitment Team at people.recruitment@humankindcharity.org.uk