Salary: £30,000 pro rata (£15,000 for 2.5 days per week)

Hours: 18.45 hours (2.5 days) per week (Exact timings to be discussed; 12.5 days annual leave entitlement per year)

Terms: Fixed term contract until 31st March 2028; 6-month probation period

Based at: The primary location of work is at the Naz office in Hammersmith, with some travel within London.

Responsible to: Head of Counselling Services

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Job Description

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Overall Aim:

To deliver a high impact, professional and culturally competent sexual health, sexuality and HIV counselling service to clients aged between 18-25 years old who are living in London (any London borough).

 

Background:

Naz provides mental health and sexual health services to Black, Asian and Global Majority communities in London. Our longstanding counselling service provides counselling and psychotherapy to adult individuals and couples from Global Majority communities, providing support for a wide range of issues including anxiety and depression, PTSD, sexual identity, gender identity, past trauma, hate crime and bereavement. The service specialises in working with the intersectionalities arising from our communities’ identities, including ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and immigration status.

 

With support from Capital Radio’s ‘Global Make Some Noise’ programme, Naz is able to take this intersectional framework one step farther and create mental health interventions for young people which not only centre their lived-experience and cultural background, but are also informed by the generational experiences of current young people and the developmental stages of those aged 18-25 through a specialised youth therapist. Thereby enabling long-term, sustainable change in the lives of marginalised young people.

 

You will play the key role in providing this new counselling service. You will conduct initial assessment for new clients; for those accepted into the service, you will deliver solution-focused counselling for up to 12 sessions. You will manage a caseload of up to 12 clients per week. While most of Naz’s existing therapists work within various psychotherapy modalities, we are open to other modalities including, but not limited to, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Art Therapy.

 

As this work is predominantly with Black, Asian and Global Majority clients, this role is only open to people who positively identify as having Black, Asian or Global Majority ethnicity, or dual/multiple heritage including this (Exempt under the Equality Act 2010 Schedule 9, Part 1).

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If you have any questions around this role, please contact Kim Hawkins at  kim@naz.org.uk

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Benefits of working with us

• Full Employee Assistance Programme - a confidential employee benefit designed to help you deal with personal and professional problems that could be affecting your home life or work life, health and general wellbeing

• 25 days Annual Leave per year (pro-rated for part-time staff), in addition to Bank Holidays

• Exceptionally diverse and inclusive workplace with a welcoming culture

Main duties of post:

Providing the service

1. Ensure provision of solution-focussed counselling sessions for young people aged 18-25, up to 12 sessions.

2. To oversee a full and complex clinical caseload of up to 12 clients per week. This will be a mix of in-person sessions and online sessions.

3. To provide one evening of counselling work per week to improve access.

4. To undergo regular external clinical supervision (online) every two weeks.

 

Internal

1. To maintain clients’ and referral records and use an evaluation system to monitor quality of clinical work; provide reports to management and funders.

2. To ensure confidential maintenance of client files.

3. To take an active role in staff meetings and supervision.

4. To carry out the duties of the post with due regard to NAZ’s policies such as Equal Opportunities Policy, child protection and adult safeguarding, data protection and health and safety.

5. To carry out any other reasonable duties as assigned by your line manage

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Learning

1. Keep up to date on issues related to working with young people around mental and sexual health, sexuality and wellbeing as well as innovative interventions and methodologies.

2. To take responsibility for their own professional development.

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Other Duties

1. To carry out other duties as may be reasonably required.