| Post Title |
Staff Counsellor |
| Post Status |
Permanent – Part Time |
| Department |
Staff Counselling Department |
| Location |
Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9, Ireland. |
| Reports to |
Counselling Services Manager |
| Salary |
Appointment will be made on salary scale (€67,541 - €77,908) at a point in line with Government Pay Policy |
| Hours of Work |
Hours of Work |
| Start Date |
Immediate Start |
| Closing Date |
5pm on Monday 15th July, 2024 |
Application: Please forward your CV to robinkeaveney@beaumont.ie and put Staff Counsellor 2024-7784 in the subject line
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Principle Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provide consultation and assessment for staff requesting counselling or information on personal, family or work related issues.
- Identify, where necessary, the use of professional referral resources inside and outside the organization to meet individual staff needs.
- Develop and maintain links with management and supervisory staff to promote interdepartmental awareness of the service and facilitate feedback on the areas of stress, providing timely psychological consultation and support to employees experiencing stress, distress, or psychological challenges, enabling them to function more effectively.
- To offer specific management support and tools for those in leadership positions across the organization.
- Assist the Counselling Services Manager in compiling year end statistical data for use in Year End reports.
- Raise awareness and encourage early identification of common concerns and problems that reflect the particular needs of the workforce and the organization, through educational workshops for staff and managers.
- Keep abreast with developments in counselling and therapy, and engage with appropriate Continuous Professional Development as required for maintaining professional accreditation.
- Work as part of a multidisciplinary team in providing comprehensive counselling, and where required, crisis intervention resources for staff.
- Maintain appropriate written records, whilst ensuring absolute confidentiality with regard to all strictly personal information with which s/he may be entrusted, in accordance with GDPR requirements.
- Help design and deliver psycho-educational training programmes focusing on the importance of psychological risks and stress management strategies.
- Participate in staff training initiatives and supports e.g. stress management, mindfulness.
- Facilitate procedures to deal with staff involved in serious incidents as they occur within the hospital.
- Actively participate in committees where relevant e.g. Dignity & Respect, Schwartz Rounds.
- Attend supervision with the Counselling Services Manager.
- Assist in monitoring and evaluating procedures to ensure a quality service is delivered in accordance with best practice.
- Perform any other duties within scope of practice as may be assigned from time to time by the Counselling Service Manager.
The above Job Specification is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all duties involved and consequently, the post holder may be required to perform other duties as appropriate to the post which may be assigned to him/her from time to time and to contribute to the development of the post while in office.
Eligibility Criteria / Qualifications and/ or experience QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS
Mandatory:
- Hold a professional qualification in Counselling and Therapy
- Be an accredited member of a Professional Body for a minimum of 5 years.
- Have experience and/or training in working with short term clients.
- Engaging in an external supervisory relationship for clinical and organization system support.
- Strong administrative and organizational skills.
- Ability to work on own initiative.
Desirable:
- Have experience in working with clients who have been involved in recent serious incidents Have training in Self harm / Suicidality.
- Have training in Mindfulness based interventions.
- Have training in EMDR. Have training / experience in group facilitation.
- Strong analytical and IT skills to ensure appropriate data requirements are collected, collated and reported to support the strategic functioning of the department.
- Have the ability to work within the culture of the organization to achieve optimum therapeutic outcomes.
Application Procedure:
Please submit your application to robinkeaveney@beaumont.ie and put “Staff Counsellor 2024-7784” in the subject line.
