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<h2>Job summary</h2>
  <p>Lincolnshire Partnership Foundation NHS Trust (LPFT) delivers an NHS Talking Therapies service. An opportunity has arisen for a qualified counsellor Band 5 or Band 6 to join the Lincolnshire Talking Therapies service based in Spalding although you may also be required to cover alternative bases to meet service need. The Service provides evidence-based interventions within a stepped care model, treating people with mild to moderate common mental health problems. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a major national service, which has fundamentally changed the way in which psychological treatments are provided.</p> <p><em><strong>CLOSING DATE: 30th December 2025</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>INTERVIEWS: 15th January 2026</strong></em></p>



  <h3>Main duties of the job</h3>
  <p>The successful candidate will have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, be able to work within a team environment and be thoroughly conversant with the use of clinical systems.</p> <p>The Band 5 counsellor will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team providing counselling for depression. The post holder will be expected to hold a clinical caseload and will be provided with clinical supervision. The service will provide the relevant training to acquire a qualification in a Talking Therapies modality of PCE-CfD.</p> <p>To acquire the Band 6 post the candidate will need to continue to hold a caseload, be accredited with a professional body, complete and pass a qualification in a Talking Therapy modality PCE-CfD. They will be responsible in providing clinical supervision to counselling colleagues.</p>



  <h3>About us</h3>
  <p>Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.</p>
<p>You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!</p>
<p>We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.</p>
<p>This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.</p>


      
        
  <h2>Details</h2>
  <h3 id="date_posted_heading">Date posted</h3>
  <p>27 November 2025</p>

  
    <h3>Pay scheme</h3>
    <p>Agenda for change</p>

    
      
        <h3>Band</h3>
      
      <p>Band 5</p>
  
  

  
  
    <h3>Salary</h3>
    <p>
      £31,049 to £37,796 a year
      
        per annum
      
    </p>
  
  

  <h3 id="contract_type_heading">Contract</h3>
  <p>Permanent</p>

  

  
    <h3 id="working_pattern_heading">Working pattern</h3>
    <p>
      
        
          Full-time
        
      
    </p>
  

  <h3 id="reference_number_heading">Reference number</h3>
  
  <p>274-11581-AC-B</p>
  

  
    
      
        <h3 id="employer_location_heading">Job locations</h3>
      
      
      <p>Riverside House</p>
      <p>15a High Street</p>
      <p>Spalding</p>
            <p>PE11 1TW</p>
      <br>
      
        
      
    
  

      

      
  
    <h2>Job description</h2>
    <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
    <p>Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.</p> <p>When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.</p> <p>We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:</p> <p> Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy</p> <p> Competitive annual leave allowance</p> <p> Car leasing scheme</p> <p> NHS pension scheme</p> <p> Free eye tests</p> <p> Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme</p> <p> Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants</p> <p><em><strong>Get in touch today:</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>For further information regarding this post please contact Barbara Keogh, Team Manager for Spalding Talking Therapies, on 01775 761855, 07976 279390 or email <a href="mailto:Barbara.Keogh1@nhs.net" target="_blank">Barbara.Keogh1@nhs.net</a></strong></em></p>
  

  
    
      
        Job description
      
    
    
      <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
      <p>Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.</p> <p>When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.</p> <p>We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:</p> <p> Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy</p> <p> Competitive annual leave allowance</p> <p> Car leasing scheme</p> <p> NHS pension scheme</p> <p> Free eye tests</p> <p> Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme</p> <p> Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants</p> <p><em><strong>Get in touch today:</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>For further information regarding this post please contact Barbara Keogh, Team Manager for Spalding Talking Therapies, on 01775 761855, 07976 279390 or email <a href="mailto:Barbara.Keogh1@nhs.net" target="_blank">Barbara.Keogh1@nhs.net</a></strong></em></p>
    
  


      
  
    <h2>Person Specification</h2>
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_1">
        
          Qualifications
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Diploma in counselling (therapeutic)</li>
        
        <li>Evidence of continued professional development</li>
        
        <li>Meets the criteria for accreditation with BCAP</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Accreditation with BCAP</li>
          
        </ul>
      
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_2">
        
          Experience
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Demonstrable evidence of supervised practice</li>
        
        <li>Knowledge of a broad range of psychological therapies including time limited interventions</li>
        
        <li>Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively</li>
        
        <li>Ability to manage own caseload and time</li>
        
        <li>Ability to meet agreed/ specified service targets</li>
        
        <li>Knowledge of the application of counselling in mental health practice</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Knowledge of and commitment to appropriate ethical framework.</li>
          
          <li>Counselling in a GP practice or Healthcare setting</li>
          
          <li>Delivery of time limited interventions</li>
          
        </ul>
      
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_3">
        
          Skills
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Good written and communication skills</li>
        
        <li>A good level of analytical and judgemental skills</li>
        
        <li>Excellent organisational skills</li>
        
        <li>Ability to carry out assessment</li>
        
        <li>Awareness of Child Safe guarding requirements</li>
        
        <li>Awareness of adult safe guarding requirements</li>
        
        <li>Understanding of common mental health problems and of current approaches to treatment e.g NICE Guidelines</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>IT skills</li>
          
          <li>Worked in a service with agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcomes</li>
          
        </ul>
      
    
  


  
    
      
        Person Specification
      
    
    
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_1">
          
            Qualifications
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Diploma in counselling (therapeutic)</li>
          
          <li>Evidence of continued professional development</li>
          
          <li>Meets the criteria for accreditation with BCAP</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>Accreditation with BCAP</li>
            
          </ul>
        
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_2">
          
            Experience
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Demonstrable evidence of supervised practice</li>
          
          <li>Knowledge of a broad range of psychological therapies including time limited interventions</li>
          
          <li>Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively</li>
          
          <li>Ability to manage own caseload and time</li>
          
          <li>Ability to meet agreed/ specified service targets</li>
          
          <li>Knowledge of the application of counselling in mental health practice</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>Knowledge of and commitment to appropriate ethical framework.</li>
            
            <li>Counselling in a GP practice or Healthcare setting</li>
            
            <li>Delivery of time limited interventions</li>
            
          </ul>
        
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_3">
          
            Skills
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Good written and communication skills</li>
          
          <li>A good level of analytical and judgemental skills</li>
          
          <li>Excellent organisational skills</li>
          
          <li>Ability to carry out assessment</li>
          
          <li>Awareness of Child Safe guarding requirements</li>
          
          <li>Awareness of adult safe guarding requirements</li>
          
          <li>Understanding of common mental health problems and of current approaches to treatment e.g NICE Guidelines</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>IT skills</li>
            
            <li>Worked in a service with agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcomes</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>
  

  

  


 

      
  
    <h2>Employer details</h2>
    <h3>Employer name</h3>
    <p>Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust</p>
    <h3>Address</h3>
    
      
      <p>Riverside House</p>
      <p>15a High Street</p>
      <p>Spalding</p>
            <p>PE11 1TW</p>
    
  

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

  



  
      
        <h2>Employer details</h2>
        <h3>Employer name</h3>
        <p>Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust</p>
        <h3>Address</h3>
        
          
          <p>Riverside House</p>
          <p>15a High Street</p>
          <p>Spalding</p>
                    <p>PE11 1TW</p>
        
      

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

NHS Jobs

Counsellor

<h2>Job summary</h2>
  <p>We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Team Manager to lead our Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) in the Grantham locality. This role involves overseeing the day-to-day operational management, providing strong leadership, and driving the ongoing development of a multi-disciplinary CMHT that supports working-age adults with complex mental health needs.</p>



  <h3>Main duties of the job</h3>
  <p>The post holder will support the Service Manager in delivering effective day-to-day management of the multi-disciplinary Community Mental Health Team (CMHT). As part of the Grantham Locality Mental Health offer, the post will work in close collaboration with the Integrated Place-Based Team Senior Mental Health Practitioner (SMHP) to ensure a seamless and coordinated service for service users.</p> <p>Main responsibilities of the role will include:</p> <p>Embedding clinical pathways, based on recovery principles, to provide safe, effective, and high-quality care for individuals with mental health needs, ensuring compliance with Trust policies, procedures, and values.</p> <p>Provide clear leadership for the team, while monitoring service performance and quality to ensure robust quality assurance processes are in place, enabling the delivery of a safe, high-quality service.</p> <p>A core responsibility of the role is to coordinate multidisciplinary collaboration and maintain strong communication between internal teams and external partners.</p> <p>You will ensure a smooth interface and continuity of care across services, promoting joint working and integrated support and interventions at the right time, in the right place, with the right provider for service users.</p> <p>You will have line management responsibility and promote regular supervision and appraisal within the team, fostering staff development and promoting wellbeing.</p>      <h3>About us</h3>
  <p>Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.</p> <p>You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!</p> <p>We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.</p> <p>Whether you're taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has arange of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that's friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life<em>.<strong>Visit</strong><strong>beinlincolnshire.com</strong></em><strong><em>to find out more</em></strong><em>.</em></p>


      
        
  <h2>Details</h2>
  <h3 id="date_posted_heading">Date posted</h3>
  <p>01 December 2025</p>

  
    <h3>Pay scheme</h3>
    <p>Agenda for change</p>

    
      
        <h3>Band</h3>
      
      <p>Band 7</p>
  
  

  
  
    <h3>Salary</h3>
    <p>
      £47,810 to £54,710 a year
      
        per annum
      
    </p>
  
  

  <h3 id="contract_type_heading">Contract</h3>
  <p>Permanent</p>

  

  
    <h3 id="working_pattern_heading">Working pattern</h3>
    <p>
      
        
          Full-time
        
      
    </p>
  

  <h3 id="reference_number_heading">Reference number</h3>
  
  <p>274-11830-AC</p>
  

  
    
      
        <h3 id="employer_location_heading">Job locations</h3>
      
      
      <p>Sycamore Centre</p>
      <p>Beaconfield site, Beacon Lane</p>
      <p>Grantham</p>
            <p>NG31 9DF</p>
      <br>
      
        
      
    
  

      

      
  
    <h2>Job description</h2>
    <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
    <p>To provide a high standard of clinical care in ones own practice and the teams practice.</p>
<p>To embed the principles of no wrong front door, no cliff edges, co-production and personalised care and support</p>
<p>To lead on the step-up, step-down approach, engaging with Primary Care and the VCSE sector</p>
<p>Be an active attendee of local partnership groups</p>
<p>To delegate aspects of the role to other members of the team, whilst maintaining overall responsibility for team delivery, where appropriate.</p>
<p>To ensure the clinical caseload and clinical practice of members of the Community Mental Health Team is of the highest standard of clinical care.</p>
<p>To manage case-load and service delivery in accordance with and in order to contribute towards the attainment of Service/Trust productivity requirements.</p>
<p>To act as care co-ordinator under the Care Programme Approach, ensuring up to date agreed care plans, risk assessments and reviews are in place. Supporting the move away from CPA to personalised care.</p>
<p>Work with individuals to assess their mental health, recognise mental illness and identify their related needs and circumstances; and enable them to understand, manage and where appropriate change their behaviour.</p>
<p>Plan, implement, review and improve interventions to meet peoples identified needs and manage their inherent risk.</p>
<p><strong>Please refer to the Job Description for full details of duties and responsibilities of the job.</strong></p>
  

  
    
      
        Job description
      
    
    
      <h3>Job responsibilities</h3>
      <p>To provide a high standard of clinical care in ones own practice and the teams practice.</p>
<p>To embed the principles of no wrong front door, no cliff edges, co-production and personalised care and support</p>
<p>To lead on the step-up, step-down approach, engaging with Primary Care and the VCSE sector</p>
<p>Be an active attendee of local partnership groups</p>
<p>To delegate aspects of the role to other members of the team, whilst maintaining overall responsibility for team delivery, where appropriate.</p>
<p>To ensure the clinical caseload and clinical practice of members of the Community Mental Health Team is of the highest standard of clinical care.</p>
<p>To manage case-load and service delivery in accordance with and in order to contribute towards the attainment of Service/Trust productivity requirements.</p>
<p>To act as care co-ordinator under the Care Programme Approach, ensuring up to date agreed care plans, risk assessments and reviews are in place. Supporting the move away from CPA to personalised care.</p>
<p>Work with individuals to assess their mental health, recognise mental illness and identify their related needs and circumstances; and enable them to understand, manage and where appropriate change their behaviour.</p>
<p>Plan, implement, review and improve interventions to meet peoples identified needs and manage their inherent risk.</p>
<p><strong>Please refer to the Job Description for full details of duties and responsibilities of the job.</strong></p>
    
  


      
  
    <h2>Person Specification</h2>
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_1">
        
          Skills
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Highly developed clinical reasoning skills.</li>
        
        <li>Prioritisation and resource allocation, planning and organisational skills.</li>
        
        <li>Good negotiation skills for conflict resolution.</li>
        
        <li>IT skills- email, word processing, excel, systems use.</li>
        
        <li>Analyse and interpret data and/ or information.</li>
        
        <li>Budget management.</li>
        
        <li>Statistics</li>
        
        <li>Self-motivated with excellent personal management skills.</li>
        
        <li>Able to communicate complex and at times highly sensitive information to a variety of stake holders.</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_2">
        
          Experience
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Post- Registration experience of working with adults with mental health needs.</li>
        
        <li>Experience of managing staff and good leadership skills.</li>
        
        <li>Sound knowledge of the national agenda for mental health.</li>
        
        <li>Sound knowledge of clinical/ risk assessment and understanding of confidentiality.</li>
        
        <li>Sound knowledge of community care issues, local health and social structures, functions and boundaries.</li>
        
        <li>Sound knowledge of the Mental Health Act</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_3">
        
          Qualifications
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Degree in mental health and social care or equivalent: 1 st Level Registration (eg NMC,HCPC) or qualified psychological therapist (CBT, Counselling, PWP)</li>
        
        <li>Evidence of specialised continued professional training (degree level) in clinical practice.</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
        <h4>Desirable</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Masters degree</li>
          
          <li>Management Training</li>
          
        </ul>
      
    
    
      <h3 id="skill_category_4">
        
          Special Requirements
        
      </h3>
      
      <h4>Essential</h4>
      <ul>
        
        <li>Ability to travel around the county.</li>
        
      </ul>
      
      
    
  


  
    
      
        Person Specification
      
    
    
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_1">
          
            Skills
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Highly developed clinical reasoning skills.</li>
          
          <li>Prioritisation and resource allocation, planning and organisational skills.</li>
          
          <li>Good negotiation skills for conflict resolution.</li>
          
          <li>IT skills- email, word processing, excel, systems use.</li>
          
          <li>Analyse and interpret data and/ or information.</li>
          
          <li>Budget management.</li>
          
          <li>Statistics</li>
          
          <li>Self-motivated with excellent personal management skills.</li>
          
          <li>Able to communicate complex and at times highly sensitive information to a variety of stake holders.</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_2">
          
            Experience
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Post- Registration experience of working with adults with mental health needs.</li>
          
          <li>Experience of managing staff and good leadership skills.</li>
          
          <li>Sound knowledge of the national agenda for mental health.</li>
          
          <li>Sound knowledge of clinical/ risk assessment and understanding of confidentiality.</li>
          
          <li>Sound knowledge of community care issues, local health and social structures, functions and boundaries.</li>
          
          <li>Sound knowledge of the Mental Health Act</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_3">
          
            Qualifications
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Degree in mental health and social care or equivalent: 1 st Level Registration (eg NMC,HCPC) or qualified psychological therapist (CBT, Counselling, PWP)</li>
          
          <li>Evidence of specialised continued professional training (degree level) in clinical practice.</li>
          
        </ul>
        
        
          <h4>Desirable</h4>
          <ul>
            
            <li>Masters degree</li>
            
            <li>Management Training</li>
            
          </ul>
        
      
      
        <h3 id="skill_category_4">
          
            Special Requirements
          
        </h3>
        
        <h4>Essential</h4>
        <ul>
          
          <li>Ability to travel around the county.</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>Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust</p>
    <h3>Address</h3>
    
      
      <p>Sycamore Centre</p>
      <p>Beaconfield site, Beacon Lane</p>
      <p>Grantham</p>
            <p>NG31 9DF</p>
    
  

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

  



  
      
        <h2>Employer details</h2>
        <h3>Employer name</h3>
        <p>Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust</p>
        <h3>Address</h3>
        
          
          <p>Sycamore Centre</p>
          <p>Beaconfield site, Beacon Lane</p>
          <p>Grantham</p>
                    <p>NG31 9DF</p>
        
      

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

Team Manager

<p>These roles will sit outside IR35. They do require face to face assessments and reports can be written from home.</p><p>Work will be ongoing.</p><p>If you would be interested in undertaking assessments please send your updated CV in the first instance.</p><br><p>JBG81_UKTJ</p> . click apply for full job details

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