Trainee Counsellor Placement

ABOUT US

HERSANA CIC is the first and leading Genderbased Violence Support Service providing advice support and advocacy to Black women and girls femmes who have experienced any form of genderbased violence. We were founded in 2016 and have been championing the needs and safety of Black femmes ever since.

HERSANA works directly with thousands of Black femmes who have experienced abuse and violence. We specialise in domestic abuse sexual violence female genital mutilation and other forms of abuse including honourbased abuse and forced marriage. We are a service run by Black women for Black women and with Black women in mind and at the forefront.

We have been working to end violence against women and girls in all its forms whilst providing wholistic support to Black femme survivors by providing advocacy services nationally for Black femmes who need longerterm support. We provide free longterm counselling as well as shortterm emotional and practical support. As a leading expert on violence against women and girls HERSANA provides accredited and tailored training to a wide range of statutory professionals and workshops to young people and community groups.

We use what we learn through working on the frontlines with clients to work for national and local policy change to improve outcomes for Black femme victims and survivors of abuse and violence. We build evidence through key pieces of research. We push for legislative change improved statutory guidance for victims and better understanding of the needs of Black femmes around the country.

Our missionis to create wholistic genderspecialist culturally specific and traumainformed safe spaces for Black women and girls affected by or at risk of genderbased violence across England as well as campaign to eradicate violence against women and girls in all its forms. We aim to centre Black femmes in every narrative and to provide these services in a safe and Black femme only environment.

We believethat safe spaces like our own can provide a sanctuary from the world of facades a sacred space where we Black femmes can be ourselves as we are. This kind of unmasking speaking our truth sharing our inner struggles and revealing our raw edges is sacred activity.

Safe spaces designed by us for you and with you in mind and at the forefront.

HERSANA Trainee Counsellor Placement

HERSANA offers a Counselling Placement for trainee counsellors in their final years of their counselling/therapy training. Below you will find a detailed personal specification together with details of the supervision provision confidentiality assessment contracting details of BACP membership and DBS requirements.

Our current placement opportunities are available at our Crawley Brighton & Croydon locations for in person work and online for more experienced trainees. Trainee counsellors will begin their placement seeing two clients a week after a successful clinical review this can be increased to 4 clients weekly.

HOW TO APPLY

If you are interested in applying for the above placements please forward a recent CV and Cover Letter. Please ensure that your Cover Letter includes details of current training level details of all counselling hours placement details and personal development training undertaken to date. More specifically please indicate why you are applying to work at Hersana and how you meet the Person Specification.

Applications should be submitted by email to Emails should be marked: In the Subject Heading Placement Applications 2024 We look forward to receiving your application. However if in the meantime you have any further queries then please contact our Therapy Coordinator: Kamilah Tomlinson at .