RSRT- Senior Therapist

Salary £37,964.53 - £42,925.61 (Higher than the current NHS Band 6 equivalent)

Location Northern Ireland- Flexible

This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.

The Vacancy

RSRT Senior Therapist

Inspire Wellbeing is recruiting a compassionate and driven RSRT Senior Therapist to join our Mental Health & Addiction Services team working on the 'Right Support Right Time' project. This is a cross border initiative delivered by Inspire in partnership with Mencap, Cedar, Apex, Respond, DePaul and the Red Cross.

The RSRT Senior Therapist will conduct standardised psychological assessments, to inform advanced formulation, recommendation for and delivery of time‑limited counselling interventions and/or psychoeducational groups for adults and children within community‑based services.

This is an exciting opportunity to aim to improve the overall health and wellbeing of people by promoting help seeking behaviours, creating more connected healthier communities with increased resources fostering a sense of wellbeing and resilience whilst being involved in creating a person-centred mental health service free from traditional systemic and operational barriers and creating a trauma informed community focused mental health service model embedded within international peace building best practice.

🧠 What You’ll Bring

To be shortlisted, you’ll need:

✅ A Professional Diploma in Counselling covering psycho-dynamic, CBT and humanistic models of intervention or a person-centred approach AND accredited membership with voluntary assured professional standards governing bodies (e.g., BACP, BABCP, NCPS Professional Registrant Accreditation, UKCP or equivalent).

✅ 5 years’ post qualifying experience in Counselling and Psychotherapy, 3 years of which should include experience of providing clinical guidance, and direction in the assessment and management of risk and complex case presentations.

✅ A minimum of 450 hours of supervised clinical practice.

✅ Experience of working with individuals experiencing or recovering from Addiction issues, Mental Health issues and/or Self Harm.

✅ Experience of providing line management and clinical supervision to employed and associate counsellors.

✅ Experience of delivering training to external stakeholders or employees.

✅ Experience of liaising with multidisciplinary mental health, addiction and allied professionals to deliver on an outcome based programme.

✅ Experience of assessment, management, and escalation of risk and or serious safeguarding concerns and including liaising with GP’s, multidisciplinary mental health, and allied professionals.

✅ Experience of undertaking standardised clinical assessments, formulation and delivering evidence-based or specialist treatment.

✅ A full current driving licence and access to a car (or reasonable adjustments where applicable)

✅ Flexibility to work across various locations.

💚 What You'll Receive

💷 Salary: £37,964.53 - £42,925.61
(Higher than the current NHS Band 6 equivalent)

✅ Benefits include:

38 days annual leave
Extra ½ day’s leave for Christmas shopping
Health Cash Plan
Cycle to Work Scheme
Death in Service benefit (3× salary)
Enhanced sick pay scheme

📬 Apply Now!

If you want to make a difference every day... we’d love you to join us! If you have further questions about the role, please reach out to Michelle Howorth at m.howorth@inspirewellbeing.org

Please note if successful at interview, the applicant will have to complete an enhanced disclosure check with adults & childs barred list.

Following the interviews a waiting list will be created for similar posts for a nine month period.

Inspire is committed to equality of opportunity and to selection based on merit.

Our Organisation

Inspire is an all-island charity and social enterprise and our aim is wellbeing for all. We work together with people living with mental ill health, intellectual disability, autism and addictions to ensure they live with dignity and realise their full potential.

We campaign to create a society free from stigma and discrimination with a culture of compassion that focuses on people and their abilities.