Locality Counselling Service Lead
Do you have Professional qualification in counselling, psychotherapy, psychology or a related discipline?
Join South Birmingham’s locality-based counselling service operates from community hubs and outreach venues including GP practices, community centres and Family Hubs across Edgbaston and Northfield.
Position: Locality Counselling Service Lead
Location: Harborne, with travel within South Birmingham and North Solihull / Hybrid
Hours: Part-time. 28 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Salary: £35,118 pa (pro rata)
Benefits: The provision of workplace wellbeing support and activities, hybrid working where the role allows, flexible working and a range of family friendly policies and subsidised parking.
Closing Date: Sunday 27th April (midnight)
Interview Date: 29/30th April/1st May
The Role
The service provides accessible, culturally competent mental health support to diverse communities through a range of brief interventions and therapeutic modalities.
Working within a partnership model, the Locality Counselling Service Lead will take responsibility for managing and delivering a high-quality counselling service across South Birmingham. This role ensures that provision is responsive to community need, aligned with commissioning requirements and delivered in an integrated, outcome-focused and innovative way.
You will drive service improvement, integration and innovation through partnership working across health, social care, voluntary and community sector organisations, whilst ensuring high quality, cost-effective delivery, robust performance management and continuous improvement.
Key areas of responsibilities include:
* Service Leadership & Operational Oversight
* Supervision & Workforce Development
* Partnership & Multi Agency Coordination
* Quality Assurance & Safeguarding
* Service Development & Strategic Support
* Data, Outcomes & Reporting
About You
You will have a professional qualification in counselling, psychotherapy, psychology or a related discipline and a registration or accreditation with a relevant professional body (e.g. BACP, UKCP etc
You will have experience of:
* Managing mental health, counselling or similar services
* Working within a partnership or multi agency environment
* Delivering community-based services to diverse communities
* Clinical governance, supervision and risk management
* Implementing contracts, seeing through to operational delivery and maintaining strong performance
* Achieving targets and maintaining high quality services
* Building effective relationships with a range of professionals and services
About the Organisation
Our client is leading provider of services to the health and social care sector, with the aim is to reduce inequalities in learning, employment and health. As an employer the organisation is proud to offer a range of benefits to staff including provision of workplace wellbeing support and activities, flexible working and a range of family friendly policies and subsidised parking.
You may also have experience in areas such as Counselling, Counsellor, Psychotherapist, Counselling Service Lead, Counselling Services Lead, Mental Health Counselling, Mental Health Counsellor.
Please note this role is advertised by the recruitment agency acting for the client, Not For Profit People.
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