Locality Counselling Service Lead
Do you have Professional qualification in counselling, psychotherapy, psychology or a related discipline?
Join South Birminghams 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
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