Practitioner Counsellor
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Grantham or Spalding, NG31 9DFView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£32,073 to £39,043
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
4 November 2026
4 days leftJob description
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Healthy Minds Lincolnshire. We are recruiting to two posts: one covering Grantham and the surrounding area,...
Healthy Minds Lincolnshire work with children and young people on a variety of emotional wellbeing needs including but not limited to: anxiety, low mood, self-harm, self-esteem, and anger.
This is an exciting opportunity for motivated and highly organised individuals with a passion for children and young people's emotional wellbeing to help shape the Hybrid Emotional Wellbeing Service.
You should be able to travel around this large rural county and be able to work flexibly according to the needs of the service. You will need to have knowledge and experience of delivering evidence-based therapeutic interventions.
You will be expected to be familiar with children's safeguarding procedures in Lincolnshire and demonstrate good working relationships with other professionals to enable the provision of holistic care to children, young people and their families.
You should possess a Level 5 Diploma in Counselling, be registered with a professional body and have experience of working therapeutically with Children and Young People.
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!
We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.
This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Qualifications
Essential: - Diploma in counselling (therapeutic); - Registered with an NHS recognised register for counsellors
Desirable
- Post qualification courses in childcare practice or therapeutic work with children and families
- Good understanding of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and/or Solution Focused Therapy
- Training qualification
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of working with people with mental health needs, including those with emotional wellbeing needs
- Experience of delivering evidence-based interventions in a one-to-one and/or group setting
- Experience of providing training to professionals and children and young people (or able to demonstrate aptitude)
- Good knowledge of universal children's services
- Ability to manage own caseload and time
Desirable
- Significant experience of working with children and young people who have mental health or emotional wellbeing needs
- Experience of delivering therapeutic interventions
- Local knowledge of children's services
- Experience of delivering training or group interventions
- Experience of providing line management and or supervision
Skills
Essential
- Sound knowledge of Child Care legislation and Safeguarding
- Good knowledge of current local and national strategies concerning Children's emotional wellbeing, Children's Services, and mental health
- Good understanding of child and adolescent development and risk management of young people in crisis
- Ability to work in partnership with universal services to provide the best possible outcomes for children and young people
- Ability to work both as a member of a team and autonomously and to manage own and other colleagues' anxieties
- Sound knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of Information Governance principles
- Highly developed communication skills
- Ability to delegate whilst maintaining overall responsibility for service users care, where appropriate
- Highly motivated & able to engage with service users & carers to improve outcomes
- Ability to be creative and adapt interventions to different age groups and abilities
How to apply
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Provenance
Source
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First seen
23 October 2026
Last checked
26 October 2026
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