Fixed term
Working hours and days: 7 hours, two weekday evenings, 5-8 p.m. (not Thursdays)
Location: Greenhouse Sports Centre, 88 Bell Street, NW1 5NS
This is an exciting new project for Place2Be with the inspirational partner charity, Greenhouse Sports, which extends our reach beyond school to engage young people (aged 5-18 years) in a sports setting. We are seeking an experienced counsellor to provide complimentary mental health interventions (Place2Talk “drop-ins”, one-to-one counselling, group work) to children and young people who are part of the vibrant Greenhouse after-school table-tennis club via face-to-face delivery as part of a dedicated team of professionals
As Place2Be Counsellor, you will effectively cover and manage all aspects of the Place2Be service provision on site at the sports centre in partnership with Greenhouse Sports, ensuring that young people are provided with early intervention, therapeutic and emotional support in a manner which they can safely access, to manage a range of life issues.
The position would be ideal for practitioners who have worked previously with multi-disciplinary teams, in a youth club or sports setting, supporting a diverse community.
This all-year (including school breaks) position is focussed on delivery within a 7-hour working week, spread over two evenings (5 - 8 p.m.) which is adapted to the sports centre setting. There is a generous annual leave allowance to be booked within school breaks.
Some of the areas of responsibility:
- Understanding of working with young people who require or would benefit from emotional and therapeutic support and experience within a community environment
- Assessment and Formulation process for young people referred to the service.
- Undertake group work and one-to-one clinical work with children and/or young people.
- Build, develop and maintain effective professional relationships with sports club coaches and referrers to deliver Place2Be’s model of counselling and therapeutic support.
- Identify and report any safeguarding and child protection concerns following Place2Be’s policies and procedures and report through appropriate community channels, in accordance with Place2Be and Greenhouse Sports policy
- Identify and report any safeguarding concerns about any vulnerable adults following Place2Be’s policies and procedures.
- When required, make recommendations and consult with the relevant stakeholders and sports centre leaders for referral onto external services.
- Attend multi agency disciplinary meetings as appropriate to support therapeutic intervention work and onward referral signposting
Reporting evaluating and data entry
- Provide termly/quarterly reports to Place2Be guidelines and, in conjunction with your line manager, undertake an annual review of the service and produce a report to be shared with the sports centre Link and commissioners.
- Using data to inform practice and improve impact.
- Accountable for inputting data on Place2Be’s database and relevant Greenhouse Sports data platforms relating to all activities and interventions in the setting in a timely and accurate manner
- Comply with Place2Be data entry requirements.
For a career with purpose, this is your place.
Recruitment Process
- Closing date for applications : 04.11.2024
Our Benefits
When you work at Place2Be –whether that's in a school, supporting families, providing clinical supervision, or in IT, Finance, or Fundraising –every role can make the difference to a young person.
To achieve this, we ask that you bring your best self to your role and our commitment to you, is to welcome you into our community, and help you progress. Because we know that you being at your best, means the best outcomes for the children we support. Here’s just a few things we have on offer:
- Annual Leave that increases with service
- Comprehensive learning and development to enable you to progress your career
- 5% contributory pension scheme
- Life assurance of four times your annual salary
- A comprehensive employee assistance programme
- Mobile Phone Discounts (EE network)
- Wellbeing days to allow you some ‘you’ time
- Christmas holidays closure period in addition to your annual leave
We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith or disability. We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic candidates and disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented within our organization.
Should you require any adjustments to help you complete an application then please contact the recruitment team on 020 7923 5050 or email [email protected]
Please note if we receive a high volume of applications, we may close this vacancy early. If you are interested, please apply asap.
Safeguarding the young people we support is our top priority. We are committed to recruiting candidates who share this commitment to safeguarding, and we therefore apply robust recruitment and selection procedures to ensure all candidates are appropriate for the roles they apply for and are appropriately screened prior to appointment including DBS checks and social media background checks.