Children & Young People (C&YP) Sessional Counsellor (Wirral)

Hours will vary depending on demand
Start date: ASAP
Salary – £15.00 per hour, per delivered session

The Dove Service has been successful in gaining funding to run a Children & Young People’s (C&YP) project within community locations. Funded by the National Lottery through the Big Lottery Fund.
This funding enables us to work with C&YP aged 4+ to offer training, counselling, and peer support within community settings for C&YP, their families, and the professionals who support them. The project will run until 31st December 2020.

The Dove Service is currently recruiting sessional counsellors to work with C&YP within the Wirral, providing additional support to an existing project team, due to phenomenal demand for our services.

This role requires great flexibility, time management and communication skills. The successful applicant requires self-motivation and the ability to manage their own workload, alongside essential experience of working with children, in a counselling setting. The ability to quickly develop a working/ therapeutic relationship with children is absolutely vital. Great importance will be placed on the monitoring and evaluation of all activity, and the role will require a commitment to evidence based practice.

If you are a qualified Counsellor (minimum diploma level), have experience working with young people in community settings, and would relish the opportunity to work in a fast paced, challenging, but ultimately values based, person-centred organisation, please request an application pack from Sarah Mockridge – HR Lead at or call 01782 683155.

The appointment will be subject to receipt of satisfactory references and Disclosure & Barring check.
The closing date is Monday 26th February 2018
Interviews will take place w/c Monday 12th March 2018

For more information about this role please contact, Jenna Jones – Project Manager (C&YP Specialist) on 01782 683155.