Counsellor Required: Home-based

Counsellor

Required:

Home-based/Liverpool

NFP People Services

We are looking for a passionate, and professional counsellor with excellent interpersonal and organisational skills to join the Emotional Support Service based in Liverpool. This is an exciting opportunity to work with stroke survivors and their families to support them following stroke.

This is a part-time role working remotely and applications from individuals who are seeking flexible working options, including reduced hours or job shares are welcomed.

Position:000034 Emotional Support Co-ordinator/Counsellor

Location:Home-based/Liverpool. However, frequent travel will be required as part of this role (May include team meetings or other work-related meetings)

Contract:This is a fixed-term contract until 31 March 2027

Benefits:

• 25 days' annual leave plus bank holidays (this will increase with service up to 30 days, full time equivalent)
• cashback and discount scheme
• employee assistance programme
• learning and development
• pension scheme
• Life Assurance
• Eye Care vouchers
• Long Service Award
• Health Cash Plan
• flexible working opportunities available

Closing Date:Sunday 16 August 2026

Reporting to the Emotional Support Service Manager, the team will deliver a professional counselling service to stroke survivors, carers and relatives. Counselling sessions are designed to help clients to develop emotional resilience, readjust to life after stroke and prepare to reintegrate into community life.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Providing one to one counselling to stroke survivors, carers and relatives including those with communication or cognitive difficulties
• Providing counselling sessions in person, on-line or by telephone, throughout Liverpool.
• Assessing the appropriateness of counselling for service users by providing emotional needs assessment sessions as well as using appropriate screening/evaluation tools (e.g. PHQ and GAD)
• Managing risk and safeguarding issues in accordance with appropriate legal, ethical and organisational requirements.

You will have:

• An advanced diploma in integrative, humanistic or person-centred counselling/psychotherapy; for example, BACP recognised course or equivalent (i.e. 450 hours skills and theory, 100 hours of supervised practice, 20 hours of personal therapy)
• A minimum of 1 year post qualification supervised clinical practice
• BACP registration (or equivalent) and actively working towards accreditation
• Experience of delivering short-term counselling
• Experience of working with people with cognitive impairment
• A flexible approach to hours and working arrangement, being able to work independently.

This role requires extensive travel across a large geographical locality to visit people didates must be able to demonstrate how they can meet this requirement of the role. You must live in the Liverpool area to fulfil this travel requirement. To fulfil the role, you must be a resident of the UK and have the right to work in the UK.