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. • Start date - September 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: • Digital Counselling • Telephone Counselling • Solution Focused Counselling • Risk Assessment and Managing Risk • Safeguarding Training • Online CBT • Online Counselling • Case Management It is essential that you have the following: • Minimum diploma level 4 in Counselling & minimum of 100 counselling hours • To be a member of the BACP Employee Benefits: • 25 days' holiday, plus bank holidays • Day off on your birthday • Cash plan for you (and your children, if any) • Holidays increase after 2-and 5- years' service • Contractual sick pay • Private medical insurance after 5 years' service  • Pension Plan and Life Insurance  • Pension plan contributions increase after 5- and 7-years' service  • Holiday season bonus after 3 years' service  • Profit share scheme  • Season ticket loan scheme  • Cycle to work scheme • Access to Employee Assistance Programme  • Company incentives, access to discount schemes • Social sessions on the last Friday of the month with free food and drink - we call this Fab Friday! • Free 24/7 onsite gym • Paid membership to BACP upon successful completion of probationary period (or equivalent accrediting body) • Support with revalidation and CPD • Funding support with training and development P46586LSR14 INDHIN The Portfolio Group are acting on behalf of our client in recruiting for this position.