Key Facts

Remote From:

United Kingdom

Full time

English

Hard Skills

Psychotherapy Crisis Management Risk Analysis Health Screenings Mental Health Counseling CBASIC

Other Skills

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Customer Service
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Computer Literacy
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Communication
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Multitasking
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Empathy
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Physical Flexibility
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Professionalism
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Social Skills

Roles & Responsibilities

Hold a recognised qualification in Counselling or Psychotherapy
Minimum of 200 post-qualified accrued counselling hours
Full registered membership and/or accreditation with a professional association
Strong computer skills and mastering current software and applications

Requirements:

Carrying out screening assessments over the phone with individuals wishing to engage with EAP services
Conduct risk assessments and implement risk management plans
Assess client’s needs and provide immediate telephone crisis counselling/interventions
Identify presenting problems and determine appropriate service response level

Job description

About us:

Spectrum.Life is a whole-of-health digital partner that guides organisations and their people to thrive, delivering clinically backed digital health, mental health and wellbeing solutions.

Our HealthTech delivers digital transformation for Insurers, Educators and Employers through Co-creation or seamlessly integrated out-of-the-box solutions, that decrease digital fragmentation and engage, empower, and transform their people’s lives.

Established in 2018 by Stuart McGoldrick and Stephen Costello, Spectrum.Life provides services internationally to over 7.2m insurance members, 3,000 corporate clients, 60 universities and 650,000 university students. Spectrum.Life currently employs over 450 people.

Our vision is to change and save as many lives as possible.

Role Brief:

We are looking for a proactive, reliable, and fully qualified Psychotherapist/Counsellor to help us provide access to professional services while also overseeing other individuals engaging in the service. The role of the EAP Advice line Counsellor is suited to fully qualified Psychotherapists / Counsellors. This role will require evaluating the needs of our clients, conducting screening assessments, assessing for any immediate risk, performing crisis containment, and signposting to any helpful resources.

Schedule:

After 3 weeks of fully paid training, delivered fully remote from Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm, the set schedule will be either 3 × 10-hour shifts or 4 × 10-hour shifts, with 1 weekend day worked (either Saturday or Sunday) as a fixed part of the schedule.

Responsibilities:

Carrying out screening assessments over the phone with individuals wishing to engage with EAP services, focusing on strengths as well as difficulties.
To conduct risk assessments and implement risk management plans as appropriate, with the support of our Psychological Triage team and provide appropriate safety and action planning where necessary
Assess client’s needs and provide immediate telephone crisis counselling/interventions to employees and family members of customer organisations
Identify the presenting problem and determine appropriate service response level as per case response level standards
Meet key objectives around call volume and quality.
First point of contact to our clients via phone, sms, live chat and WhatsApp
To operate within all policies, procedures and guidelines of the EAP service.
To participate in team meetings and attend other meetings as deemed necessary.
Excellent customer service skills with strong written and verbal communication skills
Ability to cope with a high volume of incoming calls and chats.
Works well under pressure
Enjoys working to targets around call volumes and call quality
To be flexible regarding working hours.
Reviewing and handling of cases/queries that need to be investigated/escalated either from individual service user perspective or client organisational level
Liaising with clinical governance around complex, high risk case
Working on specific tasks required relating to service development, expansion of service.
Work collaboratively with other clinical and non-clinical teams to ensure a seamless client experience for our clients

Requirements:

Hold a recognised qualification in Counselling or Psychotherapy
Minimum of 200 post-qualified accrued counselling hours. We may report from the supervisor to verify.
Full registered membership and/ or accreditation with a professional association or organisation which is governed by a recognised code of ethics and disciplinary process (i.e. ACP/PSI/BACP/BPS/UKCP/BABCP/EAPA/COSCA/CORST/NCPS /APCP) is an essential requirement. Unfortunately, Individual and Student Membership cannot be accepted
Strong computer skills and mastering current software and applications (such as Microsoft Office) Ability to work at a fast paced environment and to meet key objectives around call volume and quality.
Ability to adapt to both the ever changing client and organizational needs
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and to multi-task, when needed
Strong empathy and listening skills
Flexibility to work shifts, weekends, evenings, holidays etc. as per business needs
Experience working with a variety of clients reflecting a wide range of clinical presentations.
Experience of screening clients & carrying out initial screening appointments.
Strong risk assessment skills with regards to Child Welfare/Safety concerns, Suicide/Self-Harm, Substance Abuse etc.
Good clinical judgement and understanding of your responsibilities regarding confidentiality
Strong work ethic and professionalism
Ability to work over the phone and through chat
Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
Confidential Working Environment: Clinicians must be able to work from a private, confidential space to ensure client conversations remain secure and aligned with professional counselling standards.

Desirable:

Experience working with clients using short term models of therapeutic intervention, particularly CBT
Experience working within a busy EAP service
Experience working on phone lines

What are the benefits of working at SPECTRUM.LIFE?

Part-time or Full-Time permanent contract
Work from home from anywhere in the UK. The role cannot be performed from overseas.
Full training provided between Monday and Friday, 9 am to 5 pm, for 3 weeks
Career Progression for clinical and non-clinical colleagues
1 hour of individual clinical supervision per month in-house
Extensive list of employee perks and benefits: https://app.box.com/s/6wwkvowbev6cn7tlvq9yz32amnpmnvcl