Locum Counsellor at SLT Support

Responsibilities  

• Doing a community mental health assessment 
• Planning a mental health strategy 
• Offering counselling services to persons living with communication challenges i.e. stammering, aphasia, dyslexia, dysarthria, individuals who have suffered stroke, voice disorders
• Managing mental healthcare for the clinic 
• Supporting groups of parents who have children living with special needs.
• Identifying and managing protection issues

Requirements

• Formal education and post qualification in one of the following: Clinical Psychology, Counselling Psychology, Social work (with additional psychological therapy qualification), Psychiatry (with additional psychological therapy qualification) 
• Currently licensed to practice  one of the above areas with independent licensed clinical practice 
• Two year's post-qualification experience 
• Experience in managing and training mental health workers 
• Experience in the clinical supervision of others and treating trauma related problems 
• Experience with emergency mental health/crisis interventions  
• Able to work well as a part of a multicultural and multidisciplinary team 
• Available for a minimum of twelve to twenty four months