Listening Ear Counselling and Support - Occupational Health
VIDA occupational Health counselling:
We offer employees counselling during times of need with the aim of enabling people to remain in work or to return to work following sickness absence through the provision of additional support.
Occupational Health Counselling provides a sounding board for an employee, a safe place to talk about issues troubling them, allowing counsellors to work with them to find their own solutions to problems or develop better ways to manage issues. It is not about giving advice, but about providing a non-judgmental, empathic and accessible means to allow an employee to find a way forward.
When Listening Ear accepts a VIDA referral, the employee will be offered a telephone assessment. This assessment is used to understand issues in more depth and clinically, to assess whether Listening Ear's service can address the needs of the individual. Following assessment, six, 50 minute telephone counselling sessions will be offered. These typically occur weekly, at the same time each week.
Currently, any employee of Liverpool City Council, Knowsley Council, Sefton Council, St Helens Council and Torus can refer or be referred to Listening Ear for support. In addition, if you are enrolled in an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) at work, they may also refer you to VIDA and support you to claim the cost of counselling back via the EAP. Listening Ear's VIDA service is fully accredited by the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy and employs BACP Accredited counsellors and therefore we can be used in any EAP supply chain.
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The benefit of using Listening Ear in an occupational health supply chain is that the 'spend' is reinvested back into the delivery of our free community services. By spending your money with us, you can help a child bereaved of a parent, a child in care or a child experiencing domestic abuse in the home to get free support. In business speak, this means that it delivers against a company's Corporate Social Responsibility and ethical procurement agendas.
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