Graduate Counselling Scheme

Are you a 2025 or 2026 grad looking to start your first full-time counselling position?

Are you looking to join a supportive company that will give you further training to develop your career?

Portfolio are proud to be exclusively representing our Client who are a trusted health and wellbeing network who have been making a positive difference in over 15 million lives. Our client offers the most comprehensive employee assistance programme on the market, giving 24/7 caring and compassionate support services to employers from organisations of all sizes, across the private, public and non-profit sector, to business partners, individual users, employees and their family members.

We are looking for professional, hard-working graduates with strong communication, high levels of computer literacy and high levels of organisational ability with a desire to make a difference to people's lives.

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• Start date - September
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This is an incredible opportunity to join the industry leading EAP and OH provider & Sunday Times 'Best Places to Work' organisation and gain further paid training to gain relevant skills for an EAP! The 6-month graduate scheme will provide you extensive training and development throughout, before you move into a full-time Wellbeing Counsellor role.

This 6-month full time graduate scheme will develop your skills in areas such as:

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• Digital Counselling
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• Telephone Counselling
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• Solution Focused Counselling
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• Risk Assessment and Managing Risk
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• Safeguarding Training
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• Online CBT
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• Online Counselling
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• Case Management
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It is essential that you have the following:

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• Minimum diploma level 4 in Counselling & minimum of 100 counselling hours
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• To be a member of the BACP
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Employee Benefits:

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• 25 days' holiday, plus bank holidays
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• Day off on your birthday
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• Cash plan for you (and your children, if any)
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• Holidays increase after 2-and 5- years' service
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• Contractual sick pay
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• Private medical insurance after 5 years' service
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• Pension Plan and Life Insurance
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• Pension plan contributions increase after 5- and 7-years' service
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• Holiday season bonus after 3 years' service
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• Profit share scheme
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• Season ticket loan scheme
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• Cycle to work scheme
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• Access to Employee Assistance Programme
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• Company incentives, access to discount schemes
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• Social sessions on the last Friday of the month with free food and drink - we call this Fab Friday!
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• Free 24/7 onsite gym
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• Paid membership to BACP upon successful completion of probationary period (or equivalent accrediting body)
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• Support with revalidation and CPD
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• Funding support with training and development
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The Portfolio Group are acting on behalf of our client in recruiting for this position.