Accredited Counsellor

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Salary £36,880

Location Remote with occasional travel for meetings

This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in 16 days at 23:59 GMT.

The Vacancy

Salary: £36,880Location: Remote with some travel to Downton (SP5 3RB) for meetings.  Hours: Full time, 35 hours per week Contract: Permanent position 

We have an incredible opportunity for an Accredited Counsellor to join our Hidden Wounds Service at Help for Heroes and play a vital role in supporting veterans and their families to live well after service.

About the Role 

Counsellors are accountable for the assessment, formulation, and treatment planning for clients referred to our Psychological Wellbeing Service up to and including Step 3 level of support. They are also responsible for generating individual risk support plans for beneficiaries based upon psychological wellbeing assessments enabling wider recovery teams to support beneficiaries to safely participate in a variety of recovery activities. You will have a chance to deliver evidence-based group psychoeducation programmes and work within a multidisciplinary team dedicated to providing high class service to our Armed Forces community.

About You 

You will have graduated from a BACP accredited course, or professional counselling or psychotherapy training and are a BACP accredited counsellor or have significant experience and be eligible for accreditation and willing to work towards.

You will have exceptional communication skills with an emphasis on compassionate, ethical and supportive language and manner. You will also be able to interpret psychometric scores and perform psychological wellbeing assessments to appropriately identify the level of support needed as well as onward refer individuals where their level of need falls outside of the scope of available service provision. If you have these qualifications, skills and experience then this might be the role for you.

About the Team 

Our Hidden Wounds Team is pivotal in delivering on our mission to support the armed forces community to live well after service, and in championing mental health. Our services are primarily delivered nationally through remote means, and you will be joining a diverse team of multidiscipline experts within the field of veteran mental health support.

At Help for Heroes, we help the Armed Forces community live well after service. Life can be tough when a military career comes to an end, especially if it has been cut short by illness or injury. Overnight, people lose not only their job, but also a support network that is like family. There are many ways we help veterans, their relatives, serving personnel, and people who worked alongside the UK military. We help people with their physical and mental health needs, and a range of welfare issues. Our support gives people the skills, confidence and knowledge to make a success of life after service.

In return we can offer you: 

• Belonging to a team who make a difference to our community and value equality, diversity and inclusion.

• 29 days’ annual leave plus 8 bank holidays, regardless of service — plus your birthday off to celebrate!

• Opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days annual leave per year.

• Added to our free health scheme from day one, including discounts on dental, opticians, massages, and more - with the option to upgrade.

• 3 volunteer days per year to support the Help for Heroes community.

• A generous salary sacrifice pension scheme with an 8% employer contribution and a minimum 3% employee contribution, plus life insurance up to 4× salary as an active member.

• Discounts on our branded clothing, including a free Help for Heroes hoody when you complete your induction.

Closing date: 22nd February 2026  

Interview Process: Two-stage interview process, with both stages held via Microsoft Teams. Stage one will be a competency-based interview on W/C 9th March with the Hidden Wounds Service Manager (Counselling) and one of our Senior Counsellors. Stage two will take place on Tuesday 17 March 2026 and will be with one of our Senior Counsellor(s) and a beneficiary/service user. 

Please note: We may close this vacancy early should we receive a high volume of strong applications.

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and welcome applications from all backgrounds.

About Us

Help for Heroes believes those who serve our country deserve support when they’re wounded. Every day, men and women have to leave their career in the Armed Forces as a result of physical or psychological wounds. The Charity helps them, and their families, to recover and get on with their lives. It has already supported more than 26,500 people and won’t stop until every wounded veteran gets the support they deserve.

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