Trainee Counsellor

Description:

Are you a 2025 or 2026 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 - SeptemberThis 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:

25 days' holiday, plus bank holidays
Day off on your birthday
Cash plan for you (and your children, if any)
Holidays increase after 2-and 5- years' service
Contractual sick pay
Private medical insurance after 5 years' service
Pension Plan and Life Insurance
Pension plan contributions increase after 5- and 7-years' service
Holiday season bonus after 3 years' service
Profit share scheme
Season ticket loan scheme
Cycle to work scheme
Access to Employee Assistance Programme
Company incentives, access to discount schemes
Social sessions on the last Friday of the month with free food and drink - we call this Fab Friday!
Free 24/7 onsite gym
Paid membership to BACP upon successful completion of probationary period (or equivalent accrediting body)
Support with revalidation and CPD
Funding support with training and development

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The Portfolio Group are acting on behalf of our client in recruiting for this position