Randstad is seeking highly qualified, BACP-accredited counsellors to provide specialised, clinical mental health support within the Higher Education sector, directly impacting student success and retention. This role is focused on delivering professional, short-term, solution-focused therapeutic interventions.
We partner with universities to enhance student well-being and academic retention by ensuring students receive high-quality support for personal development, stress management, and complex mental health challenges.
Rate of pay is £25 per sessions (+ 12% Holiday pay)
Responsibilities
The Counsellor will be responsible for the professional and confidential delivery of services, ensuring clinical effectiveness and client safety:
- Clinical Intervention: Provide tailored therapeutic 1:1 counselling, focusing on short-term, solution-focused models to support students facing emotional and mental health challenges.
- Outcomes Monitoring: Systematically administer and interpret clinical outcome measures, including the CORE10, at appropriate intervals to monitor treatment effectiveness, inform clinical decision-making, and contribute to service reporting.
- Caseload Management: Address a broad range of student issues, including:
- Anxiety, transition, and self-esteem concerns.
- Managing the pressures of the academic life cycle, including dissertation stress, study skills-related anxiety, and balancing academic and personal demands.
- Eating concerns, procrastination, and exam stress.
- Safeguarding & Risk Management: Uphold the highest professional standards by strictly adhering to risk assessment and safeguarding protocols as established by Randstad and the relevant university, ensuring timely escalation of complex and high-risk cases.
- Professional Conduct: Maintain absolute client confidentiality and ensure full compliance with GDPR requirements at all times.
- Empowerment: Promote personal growth and self-care by professionally applying empathy and evidence-based self-help tools.
Requirements
- Experience providing clinical support within the higher education
- Proven ability to manage and sustain a regular, structured caseload. Experience with brief, manualised therapeutic models (e.g., CBT, brief solution-focused therapy).
- Familiarity with the specific administrative/referral pathways within a UK university setting.
- Accredited membership with BACP
- Regular clinical supervision to uphold professional standards
- Covered by a professional liability insurance policy.
- A minimum of 300 clinical hours
