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<h2>Job summary</h2>
  <p>St Werburgh's practice is a specialist practice for the homeless in Chester.</p><p>As such many of our patients have complex physical and mental health issues, including substance misuse.</p><p>We are looking for a counsellor to compliment our small existing clinical team with in-house counselling.</p><p>This is a challenging but very rewarding work environment and you will be part of a very experienced team.</p><p>You will also work with outside agencies as we aim to support patients back into mainstream living.</p>



  <h3>Main duties of the job</h3>
  <p>
To offer free and confidential one to one trauma informed
counselling to referred individuals with a history of homelessness.</p><p>To
 respond to the needs of the clients whether this be individual, group or
 drop-in services.</p><p>
To work in partnership with representatives to support individuals
on a pathway to maintaining their own accommodation.</p><p></p>



  <h3>About us</h3>
  <p>St Werburgh's is a very small, specialist practice in Chester and is part of a larger practice, Issa Medical who provide management and clinical support.</p><p>You will be part of a small team who work closely with patients and wider organisations to support patients who often have complex needs.</p><p>As such, we have a very flexible approach to encourage patients to engage in health care and work towards improving both their health and work towards maintaining their own accommodation.</p><p>You will provide 1:1 counselling for patients with complex needs and likely a history of homelessness.</p><p>We aim to provide a safe, individualised and effective service to all our patients.</p>


      
        
  <h2>Details</h2>
  <h3 id="date_posted_heading">Date posted</h3>
  <p>17 December 2025</p>

  
    <h3>Pay scheme</h3>
    <p>Other</p>

    
  

  
  
  
    <h3>Salary</h3>
    <p>
      Depending on experience
      
    </p>
  

  <h3 id="contract_type_heading">Contract</h3>
  <p>Fixed term</p>

  
    <h3 id="contract_duration_heading">Duration</h3>
    <p>12 months</p>
  

  
    <h3 id="working_pattern_heading">Working pattern</h3>
    <p>
      
        
          Part-time,
        
      
        
          Flexible working
        
      
    </p>
  

  <h3 id="reference_number_heading">Reference number</h3>
  
  <p>A4240-25-0015</p>
  

  
    
      
        <h3 id="employer_location_heading">Job locations</h3>
      
      
        <p>St. Werburghs Practice</p>
      
      <p>George Street</p>
            <p>Chester</p>
            <p>CH1 3EQ</p>
      <br>
      
        
      
    
  

      

      
  
    <h2>Job description</h2>
    <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
    <p>Delivery of one-to-one counselling for clients with complex needs and a history of homelessness and registered at St Werburghs practice.</p><p>Provide accurate information tailored to individual need and understanding regarding the counselling process.</p><p>Ensure clients receive a safe, individualised and effective service by assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating their care.</p><p>Undertake risk assessments of clients, manage risk and make appropriate referrals to specialist services where significant risk is identified.</p><p>Manage potentially hostile and antagonistic situations caused by distressing circumstances.</p><p>Participate in the maintenance and development of high-quality trauma informed support and care to clients within the service using research evidence, best practice and expert clinical judgement.</p><p>Keep up to date, accurate clinical records</p><p>Organise own caseload taking professional responsibility and exercising autonomous judgement with regard to professional practice.</p><p>Work in collaborative partnership with the MARS project and its representatives.</p><p>Ensure ethical and legal standards are maintained including client confidentiality.</p><p>Access and utilise evidence-based practice in the day-to-day delivery of the service by participating in the gathering of assessment data for the purposes of audit research and evaluation.</p><p>Disseminate, implement and apply to practice, evidence and outcomes of best practice, research, audit and other quality indicators.</p><p>Promote quality measures within the Counselling Service in accordance with Hospice policies and practices.</p><p>Participate in relevant Clinical Governance activities within the Practice.</p><p>To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with the BACP and with the Hospice policies and procedures.</p><p>Input all information collected for statistical purposes onto EMIS</p><p>Research, collate and provide accurate and timely information as required.</p><p>Ensure written and verbal communication is clear, concise, accurate, timely, well presented information and at an appropriate level for this post.</p><p>Work with shared objectives as part of a team.</p><p>Maintain security and confidentiality of manual and electronic data, allowing access to those who are authorised.</p><p>Within your position you will be expected to adhere to the Information Governance Policy that concerns your job role within the Practice.</p><p>You will be expected to attend security and confidentiality training as and when required.</p><p>Should you have any matters of concern you are encouraged to raise these with your line manager.</p><p>Be familiar with Healthy &amp; Safety, Safeguarding, Equality &amp; Divertsity policies</p>  

  
    
      
        Job description
      
    
    
      <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
      <p>Delivery of one-to-one counselling for clients with complex needs and a history of homelessness and registered at St Werburghs practice.</p><p>Provide accurate information tailored to individual need and understanding regarding the counselling process.</p><p>Ensure clients receive a safe, individualised and effective service by assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating their care.</p><p>Undertake risk assessments of clients, manage risk and make appropriate referrals to specialist services where significant risk is identified.</p><p>Manage potentially hostile and antagonistic situations caused by distressing circumstances.</p><p>Participate in the maintenance and development of high-quality trauma informed support and care to clients within the service using research evidence, best practice and expert clinical judgement.</p><p>Keep up to date, accurate clinical records</p><p>Organise own caseload taking professional responsibility and exercising autonomous judgement with regard to professional practice.</p><p>Work in collaborative partnership with the MARS project and its representatives.</p><p>Ensure ethical and legal standards are maintained including client confidentiality.</p><p>Access and utilise evidence-based practice in the day-to-day delivery of the service by participating in the gathering of assessment data for the purposes of audit research and evaluation.</p><p>Disseminate, implement and apply to practice, evidence and outcomes of best practice, research, audit and other quality indicators.</p><p>Promote quality measures within the Counselling Service in accordance with Hospice policies and practices.</p><p>Participate in relevant Clinical Governance activities within the Practice.</p><p>To maintain the highest standards of clinical record keeping including electronic data entry and recording, report writing and the responsible exercise of professional self-governance in accordance with the BACP and with the Hospice policies and procedures.</p><p>Input all information collected for statistical purposes onto EMIS</p><p>Research, collate and provide accurate and timely information as required.</p><p>Ensure written and verbal communication is clear, concise, accurate, timely, well presented information and at an appropriate level for this post.</p><p>Work with shared objectives as part of a team.</p><p>Maintain security and confidentiality of manual and electronic data, allowing access to those who are authorised.</p><p>Within your position you will be expected to adhere to the Information Governance Policy that concerns your job role within the Practice.</p><p>You will be expected to attend security and confidentiality training as and when required.</p><p>Should you have any matters of concern you are encouraged to raise these with your line manager.</p><p>Be familiar with Healthy &amp; Safety, Safeguarding, Equality &amp; Divertsity policies</p>    
  


      
  
    <h2>Person Specification</h2>
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_1">
        
          Qualifications
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Essential</li>
        
        <li>Diploma in counselling</li>
        
        <li>Membership of BACP/UKCP/UKATA/NCS</li>
        
        <li>Evidence of ongoing development and education in relation to different counselling approaches</li>
        
        <li>Evidence of trauma informed counselling training</li>
        
        <li>Minimum three years relevant post qualification experience</li>
        
        <li>Experience of working with individuals who have adverse childhood experiences and trauma that have an impact into adult life. This can include mental health, physical health, and addictions.</li>
        
        <li>Experience of working with highly emotive material with challenging and complex clients </li>
        
        <li>Knowledge of assessment and delivery of trauma informed counselling support, applying this knowledge to practice</li>
        
        <li>Knowledge of risk assessment and clinical outcome tools such as CORE</li>
        
        <li>Awareness of quality and diversity issues in relation to counselling support</li>
        
        <li>IT literate</li>
        
        <li>Ability to liaise with health and social care professionals across a variety of settings </li>
        
        <li>Excellent written and verbal communication skills</li>
        
        <li>Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner</li>
        
        <li>Ability to work with shared objectives as part of a team</li>
        
        <li>Ability to work collaboratively with the wider multi-professional team</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Educated to degree level</li>
          
          <li>Working towards BACP/UKCP editaccreditation / BACP Certificate of Proficiency</li>
          
          <li>Experience of facilitating groups</li>
          
          <li>Experience of working with a multi-professional team</li>
          
          <li>Experience of working in a health care setting / team environment</li>
          
        </ul>
      
    
  


  
    
      
        Person Specification
      
    
    
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_1">
          
            Qualifications
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Essential</li>
          
          <li>Diploma in counselling</li>
          
          <li>Membership of BACP/UKCP/UKATA/NCS</li>
          
          <li>Evidence of ongoing development and education in relation to different counselling approaches</li>
          
          <li>Evidence of trauma informed counselling training</li>
          
          <li>Minimum three years relevant post qualification experience</li>
          
          <li>Experience of working with individuals who have adverse childhood experiences and trauma that have an impact into adult life. This can include mental health, physical health, and addictions.</li>
          
          <li>Experience of working with highly emotive material with challenging and complex clients </li>
          
          <li>Knowledge of assessment and delivery of trauma informed counselling support, applying this knowledge to practice</li>
          
          <li>Knowledge of risk assessment and clinical outcome tools such as CORE</li>
          
          <li>Awareness of quality and diversity issues in relation to counselling support</li>
          
          <li>IT literate</li>
          
          <li>Ability to liaise with health and social care professionals across a variety of settings </li>
          
          <li>Excellent written and verbal communication skills</li>
          
          <li>Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner</li>
          
          <li>Ability to work with shared objectives as part of a team</li>
          
          <li>Ability to work collaboratively with the wider multi-professional team</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>Educated to degree level</li>
            
            <li>Working towards BACP/UKCP editaccreditation / BACP Certificate of Proficiency</li>
            
            <li>Experience of facilitating groups</li>
            
            <li>Experience of working with a multi-professional team</li>
            
            <li>Experience of working in a health care setting / team environment</li>
            
          </ul>
        
      
    
  



      
  
    <h3 id="dbs-message">Disclosure and Barring Service Check</h3>
    <p>This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.</p>
  

  

  
    <h3 id="uk-registration">UK Registration</h3>
    <p>
      Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see 
      <a href="https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/working-health/overseas-health-professionals" target="_blank">NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).</a>
    </p>
  


 
  
    
      
        Additional information
      
    
    
      
        <h3 id="dbs-message">Disclosure and Barring Service Check</h3>
        <p>This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.</p>
      

      

      
        <h3 id="uk-registration">UK Registration</h3>
        <p>
          Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see 
          <a href="https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/working-health/overseas-health-professionals" target="_blank">NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).</a>
        </p>
      
    
  


      
  
    <h2>Employer details</h2>
    <h3>Employer name</h3>
    <p>Issa Medical Centre</p>
    <h3>Address</h3>
    
      
      <p>St. Werburghs Practice</p>
      
      <p>George Street</p>
            <p>Chester</p>
            <p>CH1 3EQ</p>
    
  

  
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    <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
      
        <p><a href="https://www.issamedicalgroup.co.uk" target="_blank">https://www.issamedicalgroup.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>
      
  

  



  
      
        <h2>Employer details</h2>
        <h3>Employer name</h3>
        <p>Issa Medical Centre</p>
        <h3>Address</h3>
        
          
          <p>St. Werburghs Practice</p>
          
          <p>George Street</p>
                    <p>Chester</p>
                    <p>CH1 3EQ</p>
        
      

      
        <br>
        <h3 id="employer_website_heading">Employer's website</h3>
          
            <p><a href="https://www.issamedicalgroup.co.uk" target="_blank">https://www.issamedicalgroup.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)</a></p>

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