The Rainbow Project is seeking to recruit for the position of Counselling Manager. The Rainbow Project is Northern Ireland’s only health organisation for gay & bisexual men. The salary for the position is £28,000 per annum and full details, including a job description, person specification and application form can be downloaded from the organisation’s website at www.rainbow-project.org.
New Life Counselling is pleased to offer exciting opportunities within their Counselling and Support Services Team. If you want to be part of an organisation that is committed to offering a high quality counselling service then they would like to hear from you.
1 Full Time Assistant Team Leader/School Counsellor (Independent Counselling Service for Schools)
Queen’s University Belfast are seeking to recruit Sessional Counsellors, Counselling Service, Student Affairs
The Service is recruiting a pool of suitable counsellors to undertake sessional work to meet key periods of demand. Counsellors will be contracted to supply sessions in the Student Guidance Centre, Queen’s University, but would not be employees of the University.
Modern digital technologies have raised many complex clinical, ethical and legal issues for psychotherapists, counsellors, MFTs, social workers, psychiatrists and other mental health care providers, as well as for clients, patients, and other consumers of mental health services. This paper addresses the issue of record keeping in regards to phone messages, email, and texting between clients and therapists. It does not address record-keeping for telehealth, tele-mental-health, phone therapy or e-therapy. The paper emphasizes, as with every electronic communication, the ramifications of text messaging, emails or online recording services on security, privacy, and confidentiality are not clear yet. Therapists must use caution, as well as informed consent, when using cutting-edge digital methods to communicate with clients and store such communications.
Gay rights campaigners are celebrating “a watershed moment” after doctors said so-called “conversion therapy” designed to change sexual orientation was discredited and harmful.
More than two-thirds of doctors at the British Medical Association’s annual meeting in Brighton approved a motion backing a call for the Royal College of Psychiatrists and other mental health standards bodies to reject such treatments and ban their use in their codes of practice.
MAP exists to provide counselling services for men experiencing domestic abuse. MAP accepts applications for volunteer counsellors who have an Advanced Diploma in Counselling, or DipHE (level 5), or are working towards this and in the second year of study. An application form is available from www.mapni.co.uk.
Psychotherapy.net have published an excellent article by Keely Kolmes, PsyD on the use of social networking sites Facebook and Twitter by counsellors and psychotherapists.
If you are new to online social networking, the article gives a good introduction and goes on to examine the pros and cons of using this medium to promote your services.
Holywood Family Trust wish to recruit a Counselling Project Manager/Team Leader, based in the Community & Family Centre, 108 High Street, Holywood
The part-time post is to manage all aspects of counselling including client care, service level agreements, volunteering/staffing and professional supervision.
A job description and application form can be obtained by contacting Sally Moore via email at: holywoodft@btconnect.com.
The Western Health & Social Care Trust is running a FREE two-day training course on Understanding Groups. It will be held at the Omagh Youth Centre on 13th & 14th October 2010.
The aim of this course is to promote effective work with groups based on the theoretical and practical understanding of what happens in them.
UKCP’s Diversity Equalities and Social Responsibility Committee (DESRC) has set up a workgroup to look into start up support groups for psychotherapists from minority communities. We are initially looking at:
Support groups for black and asian therapists and support groups for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender therapists:
