Occupational Health Counsellor

Role: Occupational Health Counsellor

Department: HR and Learning

Location: Escafeld House, Ecclesfield, Sheffield

Salary: £36,360 - £41,907

Hours: 37

Contract Type: Permanent

In this role you will provide psychological assessments, brief therapy (including trauma-focused approaches), and health promotion to support workforce wellbeing.

Key Responsibilities:

• Proactive administration and management of referrals.
• Providing information specific to psychological health and wellbeing resources, specialist services, and support networks and/or supporting direct referral to services where appropriate.
• Conducting psychological assessments of health, functioning and risk using standardised assessments, clinical measures, and good practice guidance to inform agreed outcomes.
• Providing effective, brief therapy interventions including trauma focussed psychotherapy to meet the diverse needs of a policing workforce. 
• Formulation and planning involving use of cognitive, emotional, or behavioural techniques to facilitate the stabilisation and/or processing of traumatic experience specific to the workplace.
• Continuous assessment of risk and the therapeutic process including the effectiveness of interventions and professional rational for adjustment where required.
• Working collaboratively to ensure the effective delivery of routine Psychological Health Surveillance (PHS) through the structured assessment of psychological health; including routine monitoring of the impact of trauma and factors associated with coping and resilience for both individuals and teams. 
• Professional, clear, and accurate record keeping ensuring safe, effective care in line with good practice guidance, organisational and legal requirements.
• Work collaboratively within a team and engage proactively in management and clinical supervision, to ensure maintenance of safe, ethical practice standards. 
• Promote and protect safe, quality practice by working within professional, ethical, and good practice guidance as defined by the organisations policies, procedures, and the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP).
• Active engagement in continuous professional development where required by the organisation.

Skills And Experience:

• The candidate must have completed a core practitioner training programme in counselling or psychotherapy, with a minimum qualification of a Diploma.
• The qualification must be obtained through a comprehensive, in-depth professional training programme that includes substantial supervised practice and theoretical study meeting the recommended training standards set by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
• The candidate must demonstrate evidence of ongoing Continuing Professional Development (CPD), specifically in brief therapy approaches and/or trauma-focused psychotherapy.
• The post holder must be a registered member of the BACP (aligned with Column A of the SCoPEd framework), or an equivalent professional body.
• They must also be eligible to apply for individual accredited membership (aligned with Column B of the SCoPEd framework) with the BACP.

Skills and experience as documented in the role profile need to be evidenced in your application to be considered for interview

For more detailed information relating to the role, skills and experience for this role, please click here to view the role profile

What We Offer:

We offer generous entitlements and supportive policies to enable a better work-life balance, some of which are listed below:

• A highly competitive salary and access to a generous pension scheme
• Generous annual leave allowance
• A wide range of family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave 
• Flexible working arrangements including flexi-time and hybrid working
• A transparent and collaborative team culture underpinned by our core values of Fairness, Integrity & Trust
• Comprehensive range of development and leadership courses to develop your career with South Yorkshire Police
• Employee Assistant Programme (accessible 24/7) offering confidential support and advice 
• Flexible lifestyle benefits such as: Blue Light Card, Company Shop, Cycle to work scheme
• Committed to embedding sustainability: South Yorkshire Police Sustainability Strategy 2020-2025 (yhrn.police)
• Membership to the Sports and Social Club
• Access to a wide range of staff support groups and networks

Eligibility:

Applicants must meet the minimum requirement checkable history criteria, which must be taken into account for individuals applying to work with South Yorkshire Police in any capacity. A minimum checkable history of 5 years is required for this role and successfully undergoing recruitment vetting procedure is a pre-requisite of employment with South Yorkshire Police.

Appearance & Standards:

South Yorkshire Police is committed to striking a proportionate balance between self-expression and the need to maintain role sensitive professional standards in dress and appearance. Officers, staff, and volunteers of South Yorkshire Police are permitted to have tattoos visible whilst on duty provided the tattoo is not considered to be unacceptable or otherwise inappropriate. Tattoos will be reviewed as part of the recruitment and selection process. 

South Yorkshire Police’S Key Values:

At South Yorkshire Police we have 3 key values which run through everything we do Fairness, Integrity & Trust, the attached document details the key behaviours we expect all employees to adhere to.

Smarter Ways Of Working:

South Yorkshire Police is committed to developing working practices which assist staff to balance their personal and professional lives, whilst meeting the needs of the organisation. This in turn enables SYP to provide an outstanding service to the community.

There are 3 different categories as part of this which are: Fixed, Field and Hybrid. 

This role has been evaluated as a hybrid role. 

Hybrid: Applicable when the work can be undertaken at any location, whether that be a SYP building or from home. 

Vetting Level:

The vetting level for this role is Management Vetting (MV).  If successful, your vetting will be reviewed and uplifted. For further information please contact the Vetting Unit on Force_Vetting_Unit@southyorks.pnn.police.uk

Contact Details:

For further information about the role, please contact: Bev Bond on 07464 986547

Closing Date: 30th October 2025

Closing dates are not normally extended, other than in exceptional circumstances and agreement is made between the Talent Acquisition Manager and the Line Manager for the role.

How To Apply:

Please Click ‘Apply’

Candidate Information:

Please note that, should you be successful at the interview stage and before appointment, the relevant pre-employment checks are required. These include references, medical clearance, vetting clearance and sickness absence criteria check.

Diversity & Inclusion:

Applications are particularly welcome from female and ethnic minority candidates.

It is really important to us that the department represents the community we serve, in order for us to provide the best service, utilising a range of backgrounds, experience and skills. We support and value all officers and staff and the unique experiences they bring to the role. We strongly encourage and welcome applications from these valuable underrepresented groups.

If you are from an underrepresented group and want to find out more about the support we can offer, please contact our dedicated team on positiveaction@southyorks.pnn.police.uk

In addition, we will look to support anyone who requires Part Time/Job share working hours. 

Documents To Review:

For the Police Staff Recruitment Vetting Handbook - Please Click here

For Application Guidance and Tips - Please Click Here

For the FIT Values of South Yorkshire Police - Please Click Here

View Our Recruitment Video:

https://youtu.be/2dGn5qti7_c