Applications for this job are now closed
Humankind is one of England’s most successful home-grown charities. We provide free, confidential support for alcohol, drugs, housing, or mental health in friendly local places across the UK. We are committed to fair chances for all and making sure everyone can access the help and support they need to realise their potential.
By joining our teams of passionate individuals, you will be contributing to making this happen. You can really make a difference by believing in our service users and their ability to make positive changes when they don’t always believe in themselves.
We are incredibly proud of the work that we do to help address health inequalities in England. Every five minutes, an individual accesses one of our services, and we have supported over 90,000 people across all our services last year. Check out our impact report here to read more about the important work that we have done.
About the role
For the most part, our student placement counsellors undertake a placement with us to gain clinical hours for experience and to meet training requirements.
We welcome applications from students studying BACP recognised counselling or psychotherapy modalities, and also specific addictions treatment modalities. We welcome applications from students wishing to see clients at early evening times and Saturday as well as normal weekday hours.
Core tasks
- Provide once weekly sessions to individuals, couples, or families.
- Maintain a minimum caseload of three clients
- Attend a monthly case management meeting
- Attend fortnightly internal or external supervision (if external, supervision is sourced by the Student Counsellor)
- Attend team meetings when required
- Take part in trainings relevant to the role
- Liaise with other professionals involved in clients’ care
- Clinical recording on the case management system in compliance with the service’s clinical governance and risk management protocol
Please be advised - this is a student placement opportunity to be conducted as part of the successful applicants university/college course.
What can Humankind offer you
- Generous annual leave entitlement (27 days, plus bank holidays, increasing to 32 after 1 years’ service)
- Annual leave purchase schem
- Enhanced occupational sick pay%Enhanced employer contribution to your workplace pension
- Death in service benefit
- Free Will writing
- Eyecare vouchers
- Blue light card discoun
- Fantastic learning and development opportunities, including free training courses
- Work-life balance- flexible working and family friendly policies🏃♀️Happy, Healthy You! – our wellbeing offers for our workforce
- Employee Assist Programme and Humankind Support Networks
Humankind is an equal opportunities employer
If you feel that you would fit with our values & ethos, are passionate about supporting people, but maybe don’t feel you have the experience required, talk to us about your transferrable skills. For the right people, we can provide development to help you to realise your potential.
We welcome applications regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, or age. All applications will be considered solely on merit. If you require support with your application or would like to request a paper application, please contact the Recruitment Team at people.recruitment@humankindcharity.org.uk
