Graduate Counselling Scheme

The Portfolio Group • Full-time • Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester, GB • £26,000 / year • 6d ago

Are you a 2024 or 2025 grad 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 who are a trusted health and wellbeing network who have been making a positive difference in over 15 million lives. Our client offers the most comprehensive employee assistance programme on the market, giving 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, high levels of computer literacy and high levels of organisational ability with a desire to make a difference to people's lives.

Start date - September

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 gain relevant skills for an EAP! The 6-month graduate scheme will provide you extensive training and development throughout, before you move into a full-time Wellbeing Counsellor role.

This 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

Employee Benefits:

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!
Supervision
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