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

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The Portfolio Group are acting on behalf of our client in recruiting for this position.