Graduate Counsellor

Position Overview

Are you a 2024 or 2025 graduate looking to start your first full‑time counselling position? Are you looking to join a supportive company that will give you further training to develop your career?

Portfolio are proud to be exclusively representing our client, a trusted health and wellbeing network that has made a positive difference in over 15 million lives. Our client offers the most comprehensive employee assistance programme on the market, providing 24/7 caring and compassionate support services to employers from organisations of all sizes, across the private, public and non‑profit sector, to business partners, individual users, employees and their family members.

We are looking for professional, hard‑working graduates with strong communication skills, high levels of computer literacy and organisational ability, with a desire to make a difference to people’s lives.

Start date – April. This is an incredible opportunity to join the industry‑leading EAP and OH provider & Sunday Times ‘Best Places to Work’ organisation and gain further paid training to develop relevant skills for an EAP! The 6‑month graduate scheme will provide extensive training and development throughout, before you move into a full‑time Wellbeing Counsellor role.

The 6‑month full‑time graduate scheme will develop your skills in areas such as:

• Digital Counselling
• Telephone Counselling
• Solution Focused Counselling
• Risk Assessment and Managing Risk
• Safeguarding Training
• Online CBT
• Online Counselling
• Case Management

It is essential that you have the following:

• Minimum diploma level 4 in Counselling & minimum of 100 counselling hours
• To be a member of the BACP

• BACP (or equivalent) membership and accreditation paid for
• BACP CBD Hub
• Up to £60 per month for supervision
• Inhouse supervision
• Monthly incentives such as weekends away!
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays (plus an additional 2 days after 2 years service)
• Birthday Off/Mental Health Day
• Profit Share Scheme
• Perkbox (staff discount scheme)
• Christmas bonus after 3 years of service
• Contributory pension scheme
• Fab Fridays – dress down & free treats
• Allied Pride Network
• Social events throughout the year
• Free breakfast on Mondays
• Fresh fruit delivered to the office each week
• Free annual flu vaccine
• Private health insurance after 5 years service
• Life insurance
• Discounted eye test
• Discounted glasses/contact lenses prescription

Deadline:
Tuesday 20th at 12pm.