RSRT Counsellor - Preceptorship Opportunity

RSRT Counsellor - Preceptorship Opportunity
 

Contract Available: Permanent
Hours Available: Full-Time (37 hours per week)
Location: Various locations across Northern Ireland (travel required)

*Please note that whilst Inspire Wellbeing holds a Sponsorship Licence, this role does not meet the criteria of a Skilled Worker as defined by the UK Visa and Immigration Services. Therefore, we cannot offer sponsorship for this role.

💜 Make a Difference in Mental Health Support

🌍 We're Inspire

At Inspire, we believe wellbeing is for everyone.

Every day, we work alongside people experiencing mental ill health, addiction, intellectual disability and autism, supporting them to live with dignity, achieve their goals and reach their full potential. Through compassion, innovation and partnership, we help create healthier, more inclusive communities where everyone has the opportunity to thrive.

We are delighted to offer an exciting RSRT Counsellor - Preceptorship Opportunity within our Right Support Right Time (RSRT) project, a transformative cross-border initiative designed to improve mental health and wellbeing, strengthen resilience and help people access the right support at the right time. 

This is a unique opportunity for qualified counsellors who are working towards professional accreditation and are passionate about supporting individuals experiencing mild to moderate mental health challenges. Through structured supervision, professional development and hands-on clinical practice, you'll be supported to grow into a fully accredited Counsellor role while making a meaningful difference in people's lives.

✨ About the Role

As an RSRT Counsellor (Preceptorship Opportunity), you will deliver evidence-based, trauma-informed counselling interventions to individuals experiencing mild to moderate mental health and psychosocial difficulties. This may include supporting people affected by anxiety, low mood, trauma-related difficulties, substance misuse and self-harming behaviours.

Working under the guidance of experienced and accredited practitioners, you will help individuals build resilience, develop practical coping strategies and work towards meaningful personal goals. You'll be part of a supportive multidisciplinary team committed to delivering safe, compassionate and person-centred care.
Upon successful completion of the preceptorship programme and achievement of the required professional accreditation, the role will progress to a Counsellor position.

🤝 What You'll Do

• Deliver individual counselling interventions using evidence-based approaches, including CBT-informed, person-centred and motivational interviewing techniques.
• Support individuals experiencing mild to moderate mental health and psychosocial difficulties.
• Complete assessments and collaboratively develop counselling goals with service users.
• Promote resilience, wellbeing and positive behavioural change.
• Monitor progress, identify risk and contribute to safeguarding processes.
• Maintain accurate and confidential clinical records and outcome measures.

✅ Essential Criteria

1. Circumstances

• To be flexible as the role may involve travelling and working at various locations and times.
• Possess a full current driving licence and access to a car. Business Insurance will be a requirement for this post. Consideration will be given to alternative travelling proposals in respect of applicants with a disability who cannot hold a driver's licence.

2. Qualifications

• A professional Diploma in Counselling, covering psycho-dynamic, CBT and humanistic models of intervention or a person centred approach.
• Committed to working towards achieving full accreditation within one calendar year of taking up post.

3. Experience / Personal Attributes

• Experience providing counselling (either paid or in a voluntary capacity), with a minimum of 300 post qualified supervised counselling hours.
• Experience of working with adults presenting with mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
• Demonstrates a strong understanding of the presentations of substance misuse and self-harming behaviours.
• Demonstrable knowledge and confident application of evidence-based therapeutic approaches, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), 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.
• Understanding of counselling ethics, confidentiality, and professional boundaries.
• Ability to establish and maintain a therapeutic relationship with clients with substance-related needs.
• Understanding of risk management and safeguarding in a substance misuse context.
• Good written, verbal, and IT skills to enable accurate clinical documentation and reporting.

💙 Why Join Inspire?

At Inspire, our values guide everything we do. We are Inclusive, Passionate, Determined, Kind, Honest and Innovative, and we're looking for people who share our commitment to making a positive impact. 

When you join Inspire, you'll benefit from:

• Structured support through an accredited preceptorship pathway.
• Clinical supervision and dedicated professional development opportunities.
• Competitive salary and attractive benefits package.
• Generous annual leave entitlement.
• Occupational sick pay.
• Employee Assistance Programme and wellbeing initiatives.
• Company pension scheme and death in service benefit.
• The opportunity to be part of an innovative project helping shape the future of community mental health support.

🌱 Ready to Apply?

If you're a compassionate and motivated counsellor looking to develop your professional practice while changing lives for the better, we'd love to hear from you.

For further information about this opportunity, please contact our Recruitment Team at recruitment@inspirewellbeing.org.

Following interviews, a waiting list may be created for similar posts for a nine-month period.

Inspire is committed to equality of opportunity and selection based on merit. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued, respected and empowered to succeed.

Together, we can ensure people receive the right support, at the right time. 💜

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