Trainee Counsellors and Coaches

Every year we welcome a number of trainees to join our counselling team and accept applications all year round. If you would like to be considered for a placement with us you can request an application form from [email protected]

The recruitment process will include:

• Competency and personal Interview to assess suitability for working with vulnerable young people
• Satisfactory DBS check
• Mandatory training in Safeguarding and GDPR
• Completion of at least one clinical supervision sessions before proceeding with clients
• Two written references

We will send you our placement agreement with the terms of the placement. It is important that you can meet all of our requirements and so we ask that you read the agreement carefully before making an application. Please note we require all of our trainee counsellors to be in weekly personal therapy for the duration of their training and encourage this beyond completion of qualification. We also ask that our trainees complete a course in working competently online with clients if this hasn’t been covered by their training provider.

We have a number of trainee counsellors, usually in their final year of study. We offer a robust support system of clinical supervision for all of our counsellors which includes one to one and group supervision each month. Signpost is a friendly team of counsellors, coaches, administrators and supervisors. We also offer opportunities for our trainee counsellors to help facilitate our groupwork with an experienced practitioner.