NCPS Recognised Counselling Service
Pathfinder Therapy CIC is an NCPS Recognised Counselling Service.
NCPS Membership No: RCS6035
This is organisational recognition of Pathfinder Therapy CIC as a counselling service. It is distinct from the individual professional registrations, memberships and qualifications held by therapists working within the service.
For full details of our standards, clinical governance and accountability arrangements, see Standards and Accreditations.
Professional membership and registers
Therapists delivering client work through Pathfinder will be expected to hold appropriate professional membership, work within an ethical framework, maintain supervision, and be on a relevant PSA Accredited Register where required by the service model.
Insurance
Pathfinder will maintain appropriate organisational insurance for the services it provides. Therapists may also be required to evidence appropriate professional indemnity cover according to their role, contract and professional status.
Clinical supervision
Client work through Pathfinder will require appropriate clinical supervision. Supervision arrangements will be proportionate to the practitioner’s role, experience, caseload and the type of work being undertaken.
DBS and safer recruitment
Where roles involve work with vulnerable adults, children, young people or regulated settings, Pathfinder will require appropriate DBS checks and safer recruitment processes.
Client assessment and triage
Before therapy begins, Pathfinder will consider suitability, presenting needs, risk, safeguarding, consent, availability and whether another service is more appropriate. Where Pathfinder is not suitable, we will signpost where possible.
Records and confidentiality
Pathfinder will maintain appropriate records and confidentiality arrangements in line with data protection, professional ethics, safeguarding obligations and lawful disclosure requirements.
Student placements
Pathfinder is not currently advertising a student placement pathway. Any future placement arrangements will require clear contracts, supervision, safeguarding arrangements, training-provider liaison and appropriate governance.