Head of Counselling & Practice

EACH Counselling

Head of Counselling & Practice

Location: Ealing – With requirement to work from any of EACH s locations
Salary: £45,864 – £52,959 per annum, DOE
Contract: Full-time, permanent 37.5 hours

EACH provides a range of specialist services to individuals and families affected by mental health, domestic violence and alcohol and substance misuse issues.

Head of Counselling & Practice The Role

We are looking for a Head of Counselling and Practice to join our Senior Management Team to ensure that our services are effective, of high quality and safe. Based at our Ealing centre, you will work across other sites as required.

You will provide leadership, clinical and managerial input and direction across EACH Counselling and Support to ensure its client work is of high quality, person-centered and needs-led.

To lead on development and oversight of trainee/volunteer counsellors and peer volunteering programmes and provide clinical supervision and reflective practice to develop clinical skill

Key Responsibilities;

• Oversee and ensure smooth running of trainee/counsellor volunteering and peer-led
• Responsible for clinical governance work, including internal meetings, clinical audits, actions and reporting on progress.
• Develop and organise annual programme of practice-based trainings and learning
• Provide clinical direction, support and guidance to ensure services across EACH are safe, pro-active and of high standard and take steps to address any gaps
• Recruit and manage external clinical supervisors and ensuring adequate supervision of counsellors
• Provide clinical supervision and annual appraisals, and reflective practice as required
• Keep up to date or create policies and procedures relevant to maintain and continually improve clinical practice and therapeutic work in line with BACP and other professional bodies
• Provide direction and management to the clinical work within EACH s social enterprise (Life Therapies), including assessments, allocations, clinical supervision
• Hold and manage an appropriate small caseload where appropriate, including conducting assessments, care-planning, reviews and planned discharges
• Where appropriate, staff may be asked to work at EACH s projects in the different centres.
• Staff may also be required to work hours additional to contracted hours, for which time off in lieu will be given.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of new initiatives and new areas of work aligned to organisational strategy and ambitions

Head of Counselling & Practice What we need from you

Skills, Experience & Qualifications;

• Registration & Accreditation as a counsellor with BACP/UKCP/BPS/BABCP/NCPS etc
• Qualified to provide clinical supervision
• Evidence of relevant CPD
• Line management experience or experience of supervising work of other staff/volunteers within the health and social care or voluntary sector
• Experience of working within service level agreements and contracts
• Experience of providing structured counselling/psychotherapy within a recognised framework in a relevant field e.g. substance misuse, domestic abuse, trauma, mental health
• Experience of (or competency to) providing clinical supervision
• Experience of developing and delivering training sessions, workshops
• Experience of positive and effective team working
• Experience of working as a clinical practitioner with people from diverse social, cultural and ethnic backgrounds
• Knowledge and experience dealing with safeguarding issues and appropriate responses

EACH offers a 4% 6% contributory pension scheme dependent on employee s contributions and has a commitment to staff development and training. EACH is an Equal Opportunities Employer.