Youth Counsellor and Wellbeing Officer
This is a Temporary, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.
The Vacancy
North Lincolnshire’s innovative One Family Approach model ensures the best possible outcomes for children and families. We believe children and young people should be in their families, in their schools and thriving in their communities.
We are seeking to recruit a Youth Counsellor and Wellbeing Practitioner to join our friendly team within Virtual School and Inclusion as a temporary / fixed term position, for up to 12 months.
This is an exciting opportunity to support children and young people with positive emotional wellbeing and mental health as part of the North Lincolnshire’s One Family Approach.
We are looking for a dedicated practitioner to provide direct wellbeing support for young people, playing a crucial role as part of a wider team of Educational Psychologists, Autism Support Education (ASET), Complex Behaviour outreach, Behaviour Support, Education Inclusion Officers, Young Carer Team, Portage and Tuition and Medical Needs.
Our teams primarily work with, and in, early years and school/ college settings, enabling strong and knowledgeable links about our children and young families.
The post holder will be required to work in partnership with families, colleagues and other professionals across Children and Families and where relevant to the young person’s wellbeing and development, such as CAMHs. You will be joining a well-established Youth Counsellor and a new Volunteer Counsellor. We also have scope for further volunteer counsellor positions in our team.
The successful person will have a passion for working with young people and have a warm, friendly personality that is happy to be part of a team but also an ability to work independently within the scope of a counsellor and/ or wellbeing practitioner.
A flexible approach to support young people’s mental health and wellbeing will be crucial and which may include person centred therapy, creative therapeutic approaches as well as cognitive behavioural thinking. The emphasis being on the right way of working with your client/ young person to best support their emotional health and wellbeing.
The applicant should be able to demonstrate relevant experience with young people through training and/ or work experience which may have been gained either through employment as a counsellor or wellbeing practitioner and/ or through their diploma or counselling degree.
Applicants should be relevantly qualified with a counselling or other related qualification for directly supporting young people’s mental health and wellbeing and which would be accredited with the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), British Psychological Society (BPS) or equivalent (e.g. BA (Hons) Counselling).
Please see attached job description and employee specification which you should refer to when completing your application to demonstrate you meet the essential criteria for the role.
Any offer of employment to this post will be subject to receipt of a satisfactory Enhanced Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service. The full version of our Recruitment of ex-offenders and Disclosure and Barring Service procedure can be accessed from our website at www.northlincs.gov.uk/jobsandcareers
For further information about the role or an informal discussion, please contact Rachel Woodford, Principal Educational Psychologist, at rachel.woodford@northlincs.gov.uk or 01724 296240
Applications close midnight Monday 28 April 2025
As an employer, we promote and safeguard the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from existing and prospective employees or volunteers. Recruitment to this post will follow our safer recruitment procedure which includes us requesting references prior to interview and a DBS check.
The Council
We are collectively organised around the people and place of North Lincolnshire. Together we ensure that our communities are safe, well, prosperous and connected. We are ambitious for North Lincolnshire, we want our area to be the #BestPlace for our residents by being the #BestCouncil we can be. We achieve this through living our values – equality of opportunity, excellence, integrity and self-responsibility – in all that we do.
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