Job title: Specialist Counsellors (Female Applicants Only)

Closing Date: 12pm, Friday 16th September 2016.

Organisation: Women and Girl’s Network (WGN)

Website: www.wgn.org.uk

Description:
Women and Girls Network (WGN) is a specialist therapeutic service leading in developing and delivering innovative and effective counselling services for women and girls who have experienced all forms of gender-based violence.

 

We aim to ensure that we are proactive in developing specialist services that meet the needs of all the women and girls who access our services. We seek practitioners who will thrive in a multi-cultural feminist environment.

 

We are currently seeking Specialist Counsellors and are particularly keen to hear from applicants who have experience of working with one or more of the following:

  • Women and girls from Black, Asian, Minority, Ethnic and Refuge (BAMER) communities – ensuring that issues related to diversity and identity are effectively understood and sensitively worked with. We are particularly keen to hear from applicants who speak community languages (e.g. south Asian languages).
  • Creative solutions in working with survivors of gender-based violence that are affected by problematic substance use and mental ill health.

 

We will be offering a maximum of 7-14 hours a week which will be dependent on the skills set of the successful candidates.

 

You must be BACP or UKCP accredited (or eligible) and have experience of providing a range of counselling interventions for women who have experienced gender-based violence. The successful candidates will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the following: gender responsive approach, trauma focused, holistic therapeutic responses and multicultural competencies. Facilitating recovery and responding to a diverse client group with multiple cultural identities.

 

You will receive regular individual and group supervision as well as an on-going CPD programme in a supportive multi-cultural feminist organisation.
Type: Permanent, Part Time
Salary: £28,000 per annum pro rata
How to apply: Please visit www.wgn.org.uk/join-us/jobs to download an application pack.

 

Completed applications should be emailed to or posted to Human Resources, WGN, PO Box 13095, London W14 0FE.

 

Interviews will be held on Friday, 30th September 2016.