Qualified counsellors
HCCG CIC welcomes applications from qualified counsellors who would like to join our team and make a commitment to our social mission and to the maintenance of long-term therapy as an option for clients.
Our ethos is that we place our clients at the centre of everything we do. We have therapists from a wide variety of orientations and we offer both short and long-term therapy to clients.
We offer a development pathway to paid work based on your clinical hours and experience, alongside asking qualified counsellors to support the social mission of our Community Interest Company by offering voluntary counselling hours to our clients.
We work with our clients either open-ended or on a time-limited basis, dependent on clients’ needs.
What do we offer you as a qualified counsellor?
- A development pathway to paid work based on your clinical hours and experience
- Free fortnightly supervision with an appropriately qualified supervisor at Alphacom House
- Free insurance cover whilst you volunteer for the Group
- Induction processes and support from the Management Team
- Involvement in team meetings and CPD opportunities
- The opportunity to practice with a wide range of presenting issues and age groups with scope to expand your practice with us
- The opportunity to engage with a motivated, friendly and experienced counselling team who are dedicated to continuing to offer support to local residents
What we expect from you?
- The ability to see three clients a week acccording to your availability
- Evidence of membership of the BACP or similar professional organisation
- Evidence wherever possible of an Enhanced DBS check less than 3 years old.
- A commitment to support our mission and practice in a way that reflects the ethos of our Group
- A commitment to the Group for 18 months with 12 weeks’ notice period
- To undertake policy training with us or provide evidence of appropriate training elsewhere
What are the future plans for the Group?
We are a Community Interest Company (C.I.C.) with an appropriate and formal business structure in which we can grow and diversify the client work the Group carries out
- Counsellors who join the Group are asked to become subscriber members of our CIC, in effect to join the business and commit to our aims. We will explain this in more depth to you if you apply to join us.
- To expand our offer to clients and to work to reduce waiting times by building capacity
- Expand our operations with local EAP counselling programmes and providers and offer wellbeing and reflective practice support
Please make initial contact with us by email – we will then invite you to download and complete an application form.
Continued Professional Development
HCCG CIC provides CPD opportunities to its own team and when space permits we open these CPD events to external counsellors. Dates of forthcoming CPD events open to external counsellors will be publicised on the website.
Hire a room
If you are a therapist in private practice, Alphacom House offers counsellors a secure and comfortable counselling base from which to meet with their clients. We have a variety of rooms available to fit both single and couples work (subject to availability). We also hire rooms to a limited number of other health professionals (subject to availability).
We have limited parking for therapists at the back of our building and clients can park freely on the streets around Alphacom after 10am. For pre 10am sessions we can provide parking permits at a small cost.
Room hire is invoiced by us monthly and we book your rooms for your via our online booking platform, Skedda.
For our current room hire rates and the opportunity to visit our rooms please email: [email protected]