Counsellor (Northern Emotional Wellbeing Service)

Counselling Provision for the Northern Emotional Wellbeing Service (NEWS)

Links Counselling Service is a community based mental health service that provides one-to-one counselling, programmes and support groups for children, young people, adults and couples. We offer a broad spectrum of therapeutic interventions and strive towards our vision, ‘No One Journeys Alone’. With a large range of networks across the community we are passionate about linking people into community life and seeing communities thrive through vibrant relationships, enhancing wellbeing for all.

Overview of the NEWS

Links Counselling Service are delighted to be providing CBT and solution focused therapy for the Northern Emotional Wellbeing Service which will operate as part of a whole systems approach that will encompass Primary Care, Specialist Mental Health Services and non-statutory provision. It is based on matching the individual Service User identified need to specific Steps of Care. Service Users who avail of the NEWS will not require treatment and will have level 2 psychological needs (Service Users who require medication or treatment will not be sent to the NEWS.)

The Northern Health and Social Care Trust is one of five health trusts in Northern Ireland that became operational on 1 April 2007. It provides a broad range of health and social care services across the Northern Trust area covering the four Trust localities - four Trust localities NHSCT i.e.

• Causeway & The Glens
• Antrim / Ballymena
• Mid Ulster
• East Antrim