Trainee Counsellor

Job Description:

Are you a 2024 or 2025 grad looking to start your first full-time counselling position?

Are you looking to join a supportive company that will give you further training to develop your career?

Portfolio are proud to be exclusively representing our Client who are a trusted health and wellbeing network who have been making a positive difference in over 15 million lives. Our client offers the most comprehensive employee assistance programme on the market, giving 24/7 caring and compassionate support services to employers from organisations of all sizes, across the private, public and non-profit sector, to business partners, individual users, employees and their family members.

We are looking for professional, hard-working graduates with strong communication, high levels of computer literacy and high levels of organisational ability with a desire to make a difference to people's lives.

• Start date - March

This is an incredible opportunity to join the industry leading EAP and OH provider & Sunday Times 'Best Places to Work' organisation and gain further paid training to gain relevant skills for an EAP! The 6-month graduate scheme will provide you extensive training and development throughout, before you move into a full-time Wellbeing Counsellor role.

This 6-month full time graduate scheme will develop your skills in areas such as:

• Digital Counselling
• Telephone Counselling
• Solution Focused Counselling
• Risk Assessment and Managing Risk
• Safeguarding Training
• Online CBT
• Online Counselling
• Case Management

It is essential that you have the following:

• Minimum diploma level 4 in Counselling & minimum of 100 counselling hours
• To be a member of the BACP

Employee Benefits:

• BACP (or equivalent) membership and accreditation paid for
• BACP CBD Hub
• Up to £60 per month for supervision
• Inhouse supervision
• Monthly incentives such as weekends away!
• Supervision
• 25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays (plus an additional 2 days after 2 years service)
• Birthday Off/Mental Health Day
• Profit Share Scheme
• Perkbox (staff discount scheme)
• Christmas bonus after 3 years of service
• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Fab Fridays- dress down & free treats
• Allied Pride Network
• Social events throughout the year
• Free breakfast on Mondays
• Fresh fruit delivered to the office each week
• Free annual flu vaccine
• Private health insurance after 5 years service
• Life Insurance
• Discounted eye test
• Discounted glasses/contact lenses prescription

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