Set clear therapeutic boundaries and supervision arrangements for confidential counselling across face-to-face or approved remote services.
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Job description
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Role-specific duties
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Working hours
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Holiday entitlement
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Confidentiality
Client and company confidentiality.
Disciplinary process
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Notice periods
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When to use this contract
Deliver boundaried therapeutic sessions, proportionate confidential notes, and appropriate risk and referral actions.
Workplace context: Practice reception, clinical administration areas and approved patient-facing areas.
What makes this role different
Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering clinical supervision. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering caseload and emotional demands. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering confidentiality and risk. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering remote-session privacy. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering patient confidentiality.
Not a fit / obtain specialist advice
Recheck the role or obtain appropriate advice if the work would exceed these maintained authority boundaries: The counsellor practises within training and service remit; diagnosis, emergency intervention and disclosure outside consent require the applicable professional and safeguarding framework. May allocate routine work and make operational decisions only within documented staffing, financial, contractual and policy limits.
What to prepare before you issue it
the client group and counselling scope
the qualification or membership required
the caseload and session duration
the supervision frequency and provider
the record-retention and privacy system
the crisis and safeguarding pathways
Day-to-day operating brief
What Counsellor work looks like in practice
A counsellor provides structured therapeutic conversations within an agreed modality, setting and client group. Employment terms should clarify qualifications, supervision, caseload, record keeping, remote sessions, confidentiality limits and escalation where a client presents serious risk.
Responsibilities reflected in the contract
Provide counselling within the agreed modality.
Maintain therapeutic boundaries and consent.
Keep proportionate confidential session records.
Use supervision and escalate material risk.
Manage appointments, non-attendance and endings.
Maintain agreed membership and competence.
A realistic working scenario
During an online session, a client describes an immediate risk but disconnects before a safety plan is agreed. The counsellor follows the service's emergency and information-sharing procedure and records the rationale.
Outputs to agree
boundaried therapeutic sessions
proportionate confidential notes
appropriate risk and referral actions
Records and evidence
Assessment and session plan.
Consent and confidentiality explanation.
Clinical note.
Risk, supervision and referral decision.
Work records.
Handover notes.
Reporting relationship
Typically reports to Line Manager or Department Manager. Confirm the employer's actual reporting structure in the builder.
Authority and escalation
The counsellor practises within training and service remit; diagnosis, emergency intervention and disclosure outside consent require the applicable professional and safeguarding framework.
May allocate routine work and make operational decisions only within documented staffing, financial, contractual and policy limits.
Supervision
Use supervision and escalate material risk.
Allocate and review assigned work within delegated authority and escalate formal people matters through the Employer's procedures.
Tools and systems
Care planning systems.
Mobility equipment.
Workplace context
Practice reception, clinical administration areas and approved patient-facing areas.
Training and certification
Complete employer-required safeguarding training.
Complete employer-required health and safety training.
Contract priorities
clinical supervision
caseload and emotional demands
confidentiality and risk
remote-session privacy
Information the employer should prepare
the client group and counselling scope
the qualification or membership required
the caseload and session duration
the supervision frequency and provider
the record-retention and privacy system
the crisis and safeguarding pathways
Individually written and reviewed against the maintained role record.
Maintained role evidence
The facts this Counsellor contract is built around
These role-pack details give an employer something concrete to check before using the contract for human health work.
Work setting
Practice reception, clinical administration areas and approved patient-facing areas.
Primary duties
Provide counselling within the agreed modality.
Maintain therapeutic boundaries and consent.
Keep proportionate confidential session records.
Use supervision and escalate material risk.
Tools and training to confirm
Care planning systems.
Mobility equipment.
Complete employer-required safeguarding training.
Complete employer-required health and safety training.
Governance focus
Employer procedures and role controls. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering clinical supervision. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering caseload and emotional demands. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering confidentiality and risk.
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Counsellor clauses and builder inputs
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Role wording
Counsellor duties
Deliver boundaried therapeutic sessions, proportionate confidential notes, and appropriate risk and referral actions.
Provide counselling within the agreed modality. Maintain therapeutic boundaries and consent. Keep proportionate confidential session records. Use supervision and escalate material risk. Manage appointments, non-attendance and endings.
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What is added to the finished contract
The counsellor practises within training and service remit; diagnosis, emergency intervention and disclosure outside consent require the applicable professional and safeguarding framework.
May allocate routine work and make operational decisions only within documented staffing, financial, contractual and policy limits.
Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering clinical supervision.
Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering caseload and emotional demands.
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