JOIN US
Help make good counselling easier to access
Bring your skills to a charity with care, dignity and respect at its heart.
Trainee placements and qualified volunteer opportunities.
Recruitment is currently closed
Please return here for the next recruitment period.
You can explore the roles below or contact us with a question.
Ways to join us
Develop your practice or contribute your experience to our charitable work.
DEVELOPING YOUR PRACTICE
Trainee Placements
For counsellors in training who are ready to begin or develop client work within a professionally supported service.
CONTRIBUTING YOUR EXPERIENCE
Qualified Volunteers
Contribute your counselling experience to the charity’s service while working within its ethical and safeguarding standards.
Your practice.
A wider purpose.
Develop your counselling practice while helping make counselling more accessible.
We offer trainee placements and qualified volunteer roles, with clinical support, clear professional standards and the backing of an established charity.
What practicing here offers
A counselling community
Work alongside a wider team of practitioners, with opportunities to share experience and learn.
Varied client work
Experience different concerns and circumstances, with work appropriate to your readiness and experience.
Online and in Birmingham
Remote client work and face-to-face sessions at our Birmingham counselling centre.
Training and readiness
For trainee and volunteer roles, you should be qualified or studying counselling or psychotherapy at Level 4 or above, with evidence of readiness for client work.
Relevant supervised practice is considered during recruitment. If your experience is from a related role, ask the team about suitability.
Before you join
Clear expectations help us look after clients and practitioners.
Placement and volunteer commitment
At least two remote and two face-to-face clients each week, for a minimum of 12 months.
Checks before client work begins
We interview prospective practitioners. Evidence relevant to your role includes:
Your Identity – Photo ID such as a Passport or Driving License
You are on a valid therapy training course
Of your registration with a recognised governing body
Of £2million professional liability insurance covering you to practice as a therapist
You have a supervisor
On the DBS Update service, or willing and able to complete a new DBS
Of a Prevent Certificate: Link
Of a Level 3 Adult safeguarding certificate: Link
Contact details for two people we can approach for references
The recruitment team will explain the full requirements for your role.
A QUESTION BEFORE YOU APPLY?
Ask about a role, your experience or the joining requirements