Darlington Mind is a well-established mental health charity providing crisis counselling across County Durham and Darlington.

We are seeking a qualified and experienced Adults Counsellor to join our busy team. Based at our Darlington office the successful candidate will work full time on a permanent contract, supporting the operations of the Adults Counselling Team and delivering one to one counselling by phone and face to face to people who have had suicidal ideation and require counselling to commence within 5 working days.

You will need to deputise (on occasion) for the Adults Counselling Coordinator who undertakes the initial assessment of need upon enquiries received from the Crisis and Access teams and further hours will be available to do this. Full training will be given on this.

The successful candidate will have a minimum Diploma in or a Foundation Degree in Counselling, and hold membership of a professional body e.g. BACP. You will also need access to a car for work.

Satisfactory enhanced DBS check and references will be required prior to appointment.

We are an equal opportunities and disability positive employer, and we warmly encourage applications from people with lived experience of mental health problems, people living with disabilities, people from LGBT, global majority communities and those with protected characteristics.

A job description, person specification and application form is available from the organisation’s website

The deadline for applications is 4pm on Wednesday 18 December

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. We reserve the right to withdraw the vacancy if a sufficient number of applications has been received.

For further information call 01325 283169 to speak with Yvonne Hoare or email: yvonne.hoare@darlingtonmind.com if you would like to find out more about this vacancy.