Qualified Counsellor (Part-Time)

Role: 🕒 22.5 hours per week (0.6 FTE)

Location: 📍Bognor Regis and/or Chichester

Salary: £29,370 per annum, Pro rata £17,622 per annum

We are seeking a qualified and experienced counsellor to join our Counselling & Wellbeing Team.

You will deliver high-quality, trauma-informed counselling to women accessing our services, hold a defined caseload and contribute to group work, including anxiety management programmes. Alongside direct therapeutic work, you will support the wider wellbeing offer through case review, oversight and collaborative working within the team.

This is an opportunity to join a supportive, reflective and values-driven environment, working with women with complex and often long-standing trauma.

Key Responsibilities

  • Provide one-to-one Integrative (mixed modality) counselling to a defined caseload of women drawing on a range of evidence‑based therapeutic models to meet each woman’s individual needs.

  • Plan and deliver therapeutic and psychoeducational groups, including anxiety management

  • Monitor client progress, outcomes and risk, escalating concerns appropriately

  • Support oversight of lower-level wellbeing work through case review and guidance

  • Work collaboratively with colleagues to ensure safe, coordinated, trauma-informed support

  • Maintain accurate records, outcome data and contribute to service monitoring and reporting

  • Engage in supervision, reflective practice and ongoing service development

  • Contribute to a learning culture, including supporting student and volunteer counsellors

About You

You will be a qualified, professional and reflective practitioner with:

Essential

  • A recognised counselling qualification

  • Minimum 2 years post-qualification experience

  • At least 300 supervised client hours, including work with complex trauma

  • Registration or accreditation with BACP (or equivalent)

  • Experience delivering both one-to-one counselling and group work

  • Strong understanding of trauma-informed practice, especially with women affected by abuse or mental health challenges

  • Knowledge of safeguarding, ethical practice and professional boundaries

  • Excellent communication, organisation and record-keeping skills

Desirable

  • Experience supporting or mentoring student counsellors

  • Experience contributing to CPD, service development or audit activity

What we offer

  • A supportive, collaborative and trauma-informed working environment

  • Regular clinical supervision and reflective practice

  • Opportunities for CPD and professional development

  • Flexible part-time hours (22.5 per week)

  • Generous annual leave: 28 days plus Bank Holidays (pro rata)

  • SMART pension scheme with employee and employer contributions

  • Commitment to staff wellbeing including EAP support

Important Information

  • The post is subject to enhanced DBS Disclosure.

  • Owing to the gender specific nature of My Sisters’ House service provision, being female is a genuine occupational requirement under Paragraph 27, Schedule 3 of the Equality Act 2010. We are committed to being a neuroinclusive organisation, dedicated to equality for all and are happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments required.

My Sisters’ House is committed to safer recruitment and safeguarding. All appointments are subject to appropriate checks, and we expect every member of staff to share our responsibility for promoting the welfare and safety of women and children who use our services.

To apply for this role, please complete an online application form or email careers@mysistershouse.infoif you would like to complete via word document. Please include why you are interested in the role and how your skills and experience make you a suitable candidate.     

Closing Date: Vacancy to be kept open until the right candidate for the role has been identified.

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