Pavilions Families & Carers Counselling Service AND Relationship Counselling

PAVILIONS Families & Carers Counselling Service – Brighton

The PAVILIONS Families & Carers service are currently recruiting Volunteer Counsellors to provide 1:1 counselling for people who are caring for or are involved with relatives, close friends and significant others using substances.

This service provides stepped support to the families and carers’ of substance users in Brighton and Hove.

The Counselling Service is one of the treatment options available to relatives who are affected by someone who has a substance use problem.

Clients are offered 12 sessions of weekly counselling on a one to one basis.

The counselling is based around the impact their relatives drug and/or alcohol use has on their life.

We provide a training course covering drug and alcohol information and a framework of families / carer’s intervention techniques. The training programme runs over a period of approximately 5 weeks, on two full days each week – every Wednesday and Thursday. On successful completion of the training course we expect Counsellors to provide between 3-6 hours of counselling per week for the service for at least one year. We provide clinical supervision of your work from qualified and experienced supervisors, plus ongoing training opportunities throughout the year. Counsellors are well supported in their work and enjoy being part of the counselling team.

Application Criteria: Need to have a counselling qualification or in (2nd year) training to be a counsellor.

Closing date for applications: 21st August 2015 – Interview date: 1st & 2nd September 2015

Training to commence on: 7th & 8th October 2015

If you are interested in applying to be a Volunteer Counsellor please contact Leigh Baker – lbaker@cranstoun.org.uk for an application pack.

and a second opportunity below:

PAVILIONS – Relationship Counselling Service – Brighton

The PAVILIONS Families & Carers service are currently recruiting Volunteer Counsellors to provide Relationship Counselling for any combination of two people who are caring for or are involved with relatives, close friends and significant others using substances – this can include the person using substances also. This service provides stepped support to the families and carers’ of substance users in Brighton and Hove.

The Counselling Service is one of the treatment options available to relatives who are affected by someone who has a substance use problem. Clients accessing Relationship Counselling are offered 10 sessions of weekly counselling. The counselling is based around the impact drug and/or alcohol use has on relationships and with the aim to empower the clients in areas of communication and enabling positive strategies for change.

We provide a 5 day training programme that will run over a period of 5 weeks, every Friday.

On successful completion of the training course we expect Counsellors to provide between 4-6 hours of counselling per week for the service for at least one year. We provide clinical supervision of your work from qualified and experienced supervisors, plus ongoing training opportunities throughout the year. Counsellors are well supported in their work and enjoy being part of the counselling team.

If you are interested in applying to be a Volunteer Relationship Counsellor we are recruiting currently.

Application Criteria: Need to have a counselling qualification or in (2nd year) training to be a counsellor.

Closing date for applications: 21st August 2015 – Interviews will take place over the following dates: 4th September 2015

Training will commence on: Friday 2nd October 2015

Please contact Leigh Baker – lbaker@cranstoun.org.uk for an application pack.