Occupational Health Counsellor
Supporting Wellbeing, Delivering Care, Making a Difference
📍UK Remote
Does this sound like you?
You’re a qualified and compassionate counsellor who thrives in a remote setting and values ethical, high-quality clinical practice. Calm under pressure and confident in your clinical judgement, you’re comfortable supporting a wide range of presenting needs across public and private sector clients. You care deeply about doing the right thing for each individual, while working within clear pathways and short-term models to make a real impact.
What you’ll be doing (in a nutshell):
As an Occupational Health Counsellor within our Vivup Clinical team, you’ll deliver confidential, short-term counselling support via telephone and virtual appointments. Working within Vivup’s clinical pathways and ethical frameworks, you’ll support clients at key moments, providing timely intervention, structured counselling, psychoeducation and signposting, always with the client’s best interests at heart.
Day-to-day you can expect to:
Deliver single-session interventions, in-the-moment support calls and structured short-term counselling
Provide virtual and telephone counselling in line with Vivup’s clinical delivery model
Complete clinical assessments, manage risk and deliver high-quality sessions
Conduct telephone assessments and refer clients for onward psychological support where appropriate
Offer psychoeducation, resources and signposting to external agencies
Manage elevated-risk calls with confidence and professionalism
Support Occupational Health pathways, including short-term counselling and initial and discharge reports
Work collaboratively with line managers and HR teams when needed
Maintain accurate clinical records and ensure CORE-Net data is fully completed and compliant
Adhere to SOPs, policies, GDPR and ethical frameworks, raising risks or improvements where identified
Attend team meetings, line management meetings and clinical supervision in line with BACP guidelines
Take ownership of your wellbeing, CPD and ongoing professional growth
To be successful, you’ll have:
A Diploma (minimum Level 4) or Postgraduate qualification in Counselling and/or Psychotherapy
Registered or Accredited membership with BACP or NCS
At least two years’ counselling experience
An Enhanced DBS
Experience delivering telephone and virtual counselling
Confidence working within short-term, solution-focused models
Experience within EAP clinical delivery or a multidisciplinary clinical environment
A trauma-informed approach and strong risk assessment skills
Solid IT capability, including virtual platforms, clinical systems and secure record keeping
The ability to manage your own caseload, delivering up to 25 client-facing hours per week (full time)
Bonus points if you bring:
Additional training in trauma, suicide prevention or short-term therapeutic work
Experience delivering group work, training sessions or support groups
Knowledge of CORE-Net and clinical report writing
A proactive, reflective approach to supervision and continuous improvement
Please note, all applicants must be legally entitled to accept and perform work in the UK and all positions are subject to an enhanced DBS check.
Why Perkbox?
In 2025, Perkbox and Vivup came together under one name: the new and evolved Perkbox.
We joined forces to create something bigger and better - a single, unified platform built to care for, connect with, and celebrate employees in all areas of life. With more than 20 years of combined experience across public, private, SME and corporate sectors, we’re now supporting over 4 million employees across 7,500 organisations.
From access to expert mental health services to help with the cost of everyday essentials, our expanded range of benefits and wellbeing tools meets people where they are - at work and beyond.
Together, we’re redefining what employee benefits can be. And we’re just getting started.
The Interview Process
Our interview process involves 3 main stages:
Application
30 minute call with a member of the TA team
60-minute video call with Hiring Manager and one other team member
Our average process takes around 2-3 weeks, but we will always work around your availability. You will have the chance to speak to our recruitment team at various points during your process. If you have any specific questions ahead of this, please contact us on talent@vivup.co.uk
We’re committed to being an inclusive employer and creating a fair workplace for all. We encourage applications from candidates across all backgrounds, circumstances, ages, disabilities, ethnicities, religions or beliefs, gender identities, or sexual orientations
We're happy to offer reasonable adjustments during our hiring process. Just let us know, and we'll make it work for you. Your comfort and success matter to us!
- Department
- Clinical
- Locations
- UK Remote
- Remote status
- Fully Remote
- Employment type
- Full-time
UK Remote
About Perkbox
In 2025, Perkbox and Vivup came together under one name: the new and evolved Perkbox. That move created the UK’s first fully unified employee experience platform – a single place where organisations can care for, connect with, and celebrate their people.
Today, more than 7,500 organisations – from the NHS to leading private sector businesses – trust us to support 4 million employees worldwide. We’re raising the bar for what employee benefits can be – and together, we’ll redefine what work feels like!
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