CBCS Counsellor

Salary £32,708 - £37,964.53 (Higher than the current NHS Band 5 equivalent)

Location Elmwood Avenue, Belfast

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

The Vacancy

CBCS Counsellor

Inspire Wellbeing is recruiting a compassionate and driven Counsellor to join our Mental Health & Addiction Services team working within our Community Based Counselling Services. This is an exciting opportunity to provide time-limited counselling interventions and co-facilitate structured psychoeducational groups for adults and children within community-based services.

🧠 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).

✅ A minimum of 300 supervised post-qualification hours (either paid or voluntary) providing counselling or structured emotional support.

✅ Experience of working with Adults/ children impacted by Addictions and self harm.

✅ Demonstrable knowledge and confident application of evidence‑based therapeutic approaches, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), and Motivational Interviewing (MI), within complex and diverse clinical presentations.

✅ Experience or demonstrable understanding of non-abstinence, recovery-oriented approaches to substance misuse and self-harming behaviours.

✅ 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: £32,708 – £37,964.53
(Higher than the current NHS Band 5 equivalent)

✅ Benefits include:

35 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 Adele Ward at a.ward@inspirewellbeing.org or Grace Hyndman at g.hyndman@inspirewellbeing.org

Please note if successful at interview, the applicant will have to complete an enhanced disclosure check.

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.