RAPt: RECRUITMENT

SENIOR COUNSELLOR

Starting salary £25,845 plus £1,077 London weighting

Closing date 14 February 2009

RAPt Island Day Programme, Tower Hamlets, London E14.

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Rapt is the UK's leading provider of prison-based addiction treatment programmes, and manages services in the community that aim to move drug-using offenders way from a life of addiction and crime.

At Rapt, we offer a generous employment benefits package, including work-related clinical supervision allowance, competitive annual leave entitlements, a contributory pension scheme, death in service benefit, healthcare scheme, childcare voucher scheme and comprehensive training opportunities.

We are looking for a Senior Counsellor to join our highly motivated counselling team. You will need experience of providing 12-Step abstinence-based treatment in a community or residential setting as well as experience of providing line management. Clinical supervision and experience of facilitating therapeutic groups is essential.

You will need substantial experience of providing counselling services to this or a similar client group and possess a recognised counselling qualification.

For an informal discussion regarding this position, contact Dave Mulvaney, RAPt Director of Services on: 07985-110527.

To apply, download an application pack from www.rapt.org.uk; email your request to recruitment@rapt.org.uk or call 020-7582 4677.

Rapt strongly encourages applications from Black and Minority Ethnic individuals and from those in recovery from addiction.

NO AGENCIES PLEASE.

Registered charity no. 1001701