Job Vacancies: 4 School Counsellors (Part Time) – Banbridge, Portadown, & Belfast

New Life Counselling currently has the following exciting opportunities open to dynamic and committed individuals interested in joining an innovative and creative team to deliver and constantly develop counselling services in response to identified need.

Schools Counselling Team 

4 School Counsellors (Part Time)

Agenda for Change pts 20-23; £24,554 – £27,534 pro rata

One-day workshop: Supporting Bereaved Children & Young People

Cruse Bereavement Care N.I. are running a one-day workshop on Supporting Bereaved Children & Young People on Saturday 21st April 2012.

This workshop has been designed to promote awareness and understanding of the impact death can have on children and young people, and to increase the confidence of learners to work effectively and communicate appropriately with bereaved children and young people.  It will be delivered by experienced Trainers and you will receive a certificate of attendance (It is not yet accredited, but can count towards Continuing Personal Development).

Job Vacancies: Recruitment opportunities at Contact

Locum Community Counsellors ( All Health Trust Areas)

£30–£35 per session

To complete our Locum Bank we invite applications from qualified Counsellors with at least two years post qualifying supervised practice in a formal setting. Contact Locum Counsellors are deployed to provide clinical assessment, crisis de–escalation, trauma resource and brief solution focused therapy interventions.

Job Vacancy: Youth Counsellor – Upper Falls Integrated Services for Children & Young People

The West Belfast Partnership is seeking to recruit a Youth Counsellor to work at the Upper Falls Integrated Services for Children & Young People:

Salary: £22,221 (pro rata) NJC Scales 26

Location: Upper Falls Integrated Services for Children & Young People

Hours: 20 hours per week

Contract: Currently fixed term until March 2012 subject to funding

NSPCC/ChildLine looking for Volunteers for Belfast Base

ChildLine, the NSPCC’s free, 24-hour helpline for children and young people, is urgently seeking local volunteers in for shifts on Wednesday mornings and Saturday afternoons and evenings at its Belfast base.

ChildLine gives volunteer counsellors initial training in counselling skills and child protection. Following successful completion of this training, ChildLine offers support during counselling, ongoing training and for experienced counsellors, further opportunities to develop their skills.

Job Vacancies – Supervisors, Sessional Counsellors & Specialist Counsellors

New Life Counselling are currently seeking to recruit Clinical Supervisors, Sessional Counsellors and Sessional Specialist Counsellors to deliver high quality therapy services as part of its existing provision.

Details of all the current opportunities, job descriptions and application forms can be downloaded from this page.

CCYP Conference ‘In and out if the counselling room: Meeting the challenges’

March 2011 The Belfast Hilton Hotel

Keynote Speaker: Dr Mike Shooter

The new conference will offer workshops that focus on themes that are found:

Inside the counselling room

Workshops offering cutting edge, innovative work and concepts that directly relate to therapeutic work with children and young people

and

Outside the counselling room

Conference – Suicide Prevention: What Works?

Contact Youth are holding a conference on Suicide prevention – what works? on Monday 22nd November & Tuesday 22nd November 2010.  Details about this conference can be found

All conference enquiries to Caroline King on 028 9074449 or caroline3@contactyouth.org.

Click here for the Promotional Flyer.

Click here for an Application Form.

Job Vacancy: Assistant Team Leader/School Counsellor

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)

Spaces still available on the Post-Qualifying Diploma in Counselling Children & Young People

Quality Training UK have still some places available on the Post-Qualifying Diploma in Counselling Children & Young People running in September in Belfast.

The course is designed to encourage participants who have successfully undertaken a Diploma in Counselling, (minimum of 450 hours of training) and can show evidence of working in a professional capacity in the community, particularly with children or adolescents, to continue their professional and personal development in the field of counselling.