# Staff Counsellor & Support Advisor

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for West London NHS Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** West London NHS Trust
- **Town:** Southall
- **Region:** London
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Mental health professionals
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £45,953 - £54,254 Per annum inc all allowances
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Part time - 30 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-07-23T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-09T15:21:18.311Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/West_London_NHS_Trust/Occupational_Health/Occupational_Health-v8145436
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8145436?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.westlondon.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

The Health at Work team is responsible for promoting and maintaining the physical and psychological health and well-being of the Trust’s staff.

We wish to recruit a qualified counsellor with experience of working in a small team to provide short term face to face counselling to staff. Training in group facilitation, mediation, EMDR and Critical Incident Stress debriefing would also be desirable. You will be based at Broadmoor Occupational Health Department (Crowthorne, Berkshire) and expected to work at St Bernard’s OH department at Ealing as and when required.

You must have or be working towards BACP accreditation or its equivalent. NHS experience is desirable but applicants without NHS experience will also be considered.

### Main duties of the job

To work as part of the Staff Counselling Service delivering professional high quality proactive staff support services to employees of West London Mental Health NHS Trust and other external customers.

Key Result Areas & Performance:

- To provide a one to one counselling service to NHS staff in a Health at Work Service.

- To act ethically at all times in accordance with the BACP Ethical Framework for good practice in counselling and psychotherapy.

- To work as an autonomous practitioner within the interdisciplinary team.

- Deliver appropriate training sessions on stress and resilience and effective witness training.

Counselling

- Use counselling interventions effectively within a quality framework, valuing diversity and working with a trans-model in all areas.

- To use counselling interventions effectively with a wide range of work related and personal issues, including working with frightened or hostile defensive clients.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached.   The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.

## Person Specification

### Experience

**Essential**

- Minimum 1 year staff counselling role.

**Desirable**

- Minimum 2 years counselling in an organisational setting

### Qualifications and Training

**Essential**

- Counselling/psychotherapy training to Diploma/Degree level.
- BACP/UKCP/BPS registered practitioner(equivalent/registration/accreditation)

**Desirable**

- Other counselling/therapy certificates e.g. CBT

## Documents

- [candidate pack (docx, 73.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10444548)
- [oh requirements (pdf, 304.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3067)

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