Independent Trauma Counsellor at TELUS Health in GB

TELUS Health is empowering every person to live their healthiest life. Guided by our vision, we are leveraging the power of our leading edge technology and focusing on the uniqueness of each individual to create the future of health. As a global-leading health and well-being provider – encompassing physical, mental and financial health – TELUS Health is improving health outcomes for consumers, patients, healthcare professionals, employers and employees.

As a Critical Incident affiliate clinician, you will provide on-site group and individual critical incident support to TELUS Health's corporate clients within the UK and Ireland, on an as-needed basis. You will be working as an independent contractor based on your ability to accept assignments. How you will make an impact:

• You will travel on-site to deliver critical incident response to groups of employees and individuals following a traumatic workplace event
• You will also deliver virtual critical incident response to groups of employees and individuals for the same, where agreed
• You will manage related administration as required by TELUS Health’s Critical Incident department.

Requirements:

• Counselling qualification to BACP/IACP accreditation level or with equivalent qualifications/experience.
• Current membership of a recognised professional body – BACP, IACP, UKCP, HCPC or equivalent.
• Training in Psychological First Aid
• Experience of delivering on site trauma support following critical incidents.
• Professional indemnity insurance of at least £1,000,000.
• Willingness to travel to customer sites.
• The ability to act professionally and represent TELUS Health appropriately on site with customer organisations.
• A minimum of 3 years’ experience is desirable.
• Training in trauma focused interventions such as Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) and working with PTSD clients is desirable.

A bit about us

We’re a people-focused, customer-first, purpose-driven team who works together every day to innovate and do good. We improve lives through our technology solutions and foster a culture of innovation that empowers team members to solve complex problems and create remarkable human outcomes in a digital world.

TELUS is proud to foster an inclusive culture that embraces diversity. We are committed to fair employment practices and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. We offer accommodation for applicants with disabilities, as required, during the recruitment process.

The health and safety of our team, customers and communities is paramount to TELUS. Accordingly, we require anyone joining our TELUS Health Care Centres to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19.

By applying to this role, you understand and agree that your information will be shared with the TELUS Group of Companies’ Talent Acquisition team(s) and/or any leader(s) who will be part of the selection process.