Senior Staff Counsellor 0.6 FTE (21 hours a week)

Salary from £53,949 to £62,160 pa (pro-rata) inclusive with potential to progress to £69,073 pa (pro-rata) inclusive of London allowance. This senior role will be appointed at a higher point within the Band 7 range, reflecting the level of responsibility and experience required.

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is one of the foremost social science universities in the world, with a global reach and an international community of staff and students. The LSE Student Wellbeing Service (SWS) includes LSE’s in-house Staff Counselling Service and the Student Counselling Service. We are recruiting a Senior Staff Counsellor in this busy, friendly, and well-respected multi-disciplinary Counselling Service.

We are seeking candidates who can bring expertise to the role, helping the Head of Counselling Service to ensure the smooth running of the staff counselling service. The postholder will work independently to manage a caseload of LSE staff clients and they will have line management responsibility for a staff counsellor.

Candidates will have significant experience of providing short-term counselling within an organisation. Candidates will be skilled in working with a range of clients from diverse backgrounds and a variety of presenting issues, both work-related and personal.

Candidates must hold BACP Accreditation, UKCP Registration, or equivalent registration with HPC/ BABCP/ BPS/ BPC as a Counsellor/ Psychotherapist/ Counselling Psychologist. Applicants who do not meet the requirements for professional accreditation/registration will not be considered for this post. Please note that candidates with BACP Membership (as opposed to BACP Accreditation) cannot be considered for this role.

The postholder must be able work on a Thursday on campus and one other day must also be on campus.

This position will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Any offer of employment made is conditional on receipt of a satisfactory DBS check.

We offer an occupational pension scheme, generous annual leave, hybrid working and excellent training and development opportunities.