Employee Counselling

Counselling for your employees - Minding the Workforce

Minding the Workforce is an early response service to local employers who wish to offer their staff a counselling facility when such need arises in the workplace.

Quality of the service - why choose Compass?

* Compass Counselling Service is an accredited service of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. You can visit their website at: www.bacp.co.uk.

* Compass Counselling Service is an accredited member of wpf therapy  - one of the leading organisations for counselling and psychotherapy training in the UK. You can visit their website at: www.wpf.org.uk

* Evaluation processes are in place to ensure continuing high standards of clinical care.

* The clinical team meets regularly to ensure high standards of clinical management and the work of our trained and experienced counsellors is supervised by carefully selected supervisors.

* We offer a fast track counselling service which enables distressed employees to be seen quickly. The NHS offers no equivalent service.

* As a non-profit making registered charity, income from our work with companies supports our work in the local community.

The cost of stress:

* Work related stress (WRS) is the second most common work related health problem, after back pain.
* Too much stress at work or at home results in low morale, poor performance and less productivity.
* Stress related illness often means long periods off work, with no certainty as to when the employee will return.
* Salaries of absent staff and their temporary replacements have to be met.
* In addition there will be the cost of recruiting and training temporary and replacement employees.

By engaging a counselling service to support your employees, some of these problems can be significantly eased and the cost of stress reduced.
How can counselling help my staff?

If a member of your staff is troubled by life’s events this may impact on their performance at work.   At such times talking to a counsellor can bring new understanding and help them to manage their difficulties more effectively.

When your staff get the right kind of professional help at the right time, problems can become more manageable, with improved performance at work and less likelihood of prolonged absence through sickness.

What are the possible benefits to my company?

    *      Improved staff performance
    *      Reduced absenteeism
    *      Reduced staff turnover
    *      Improved staff motivation and morale
    *      Reduced grievances

What is the process?

Having registered your company with Compass you can offer our service to any one of your staff who seems to be in need of help.

We will provide you with an information sheet for you to give to your staff. This sheet gives them an idea of how Compass might be able to help and provides them with a phone number to contact our office.
A counsellor will aim to return their call within 24 hours and arrange an assessment interview as quickly as possible.

If the assessment suggests that counselling is appropriate, then 5 further counselling appointments will be arranged.

If the assessment suggests that counselling is not appropriate, the counsellor will suggest other agencies which may be more helpful to meet your employee's particular needs.

The cost of counselling

    Annual Registration Fee - £50
    Initial assessment - £60
    Weekly Counselling (5 sessions @ £40) - £200

Contact us

If you would like to find out more about our Minding the Workforce programme, or would like to register your company with the Minding the Workforce programme:

Phone David Lewis, Service Director of Compass Counselling Service on 01590 674011 or mobile 07720 080612
Monday - Friday, 9.00am - 5.00pm.