Clinical Practice Lead - Counselling Services
Home-based (UK) with occasional national travel
The Organisation
Our client transforms lives by providing practical, emotional, and financial support to those experiencing poverty, disadvantage, and social isolation.
A new branch of our client’s organisation delivers high-quality counselling and therapeutic services. Their focus is on excellence, inclusivity, and ensuring every client feels heard, valued, and respected.
They are now looking for a Clinical Practice Lead to join them on a full-time, permanent basis, working 37 hours per week.
The Benefits
* Salary of £48,000, rising to £60,000 per annum
* Additional £480 per year home-based allowance
* An annual paid leave entitlement of 30 working days plus bank holidays
* Up to 6% matched-pension contributions
* Flexible working arrangements and new starters have the right to make flexible working requests from day one of employment
* Enhanced paid sick leave and paid family leave provisions
* Eye care and winter flu jabs vouchers
* Cycle to work scheme
* Investing in your professional development with ongoing quality training and career development opportunities
This is a meaningful opportunity for an accredited clinical therapist with extensive post-qualification experience and clinical leadership or supervision expertise to join our client’s compassionate organisation.
You’ll be joining them at an exciting time as they re-design their services and raise their clinical standards.
What’s more, you’ll have the chance to make a real impact on clinical direction and help to define how relationship and psychosexual therapy is practised across the UK.
The Role
As a Clinical Practice Lead, you will provide national clinical leadership for counselling services, setting the standard for counsellors and supervisors.
Taking the lead on clinical governance frameworks, you will be the go-to person for complex cases of safeguarding concerns, the sounding board for new services and products, and the sector-level representative for professional forums.
Leading a team of Clinical Supervisors and the clinical elements of the QA framework, you will build the national CPD programme and support the employee journey.
Additionally, you will:
* Use data and research to improve outcomes
* Embed reflective, psychologically safe practice across the organisation
* Support recruitment, supervision and competency frameworks
* Shape new clinical models, digital services and product development
* Use data and research to strengthen practice and service outcomes
About You
To be considered as a Clinical Practice Lead, you will need:
* Accredited clinical membership with a recognised professional body (e.g. BACP, UKCP, NCPS, COSRT)
* Extensive post-qualifying experience delivering therapy to individuals, couples and/or families
* Proven experience providing clinical leadership and/or supervision across complex services
* A strong understanding of safeguarding, risk and clinical governance
* The ability to lead with credibility, compassion, courage and inclusivity
The closing date for this role is 24th May 2026.
Other organisations may call this role Clinical Lead, Head of Clinical Services, Clinical Services Manager, Lead Clinician, Clinical Practice Manager, Head of Therapeutic Services, Counselling Services Manager, Therapy Services Manager, or Clinical Operations Manager.
Our Client’s Commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
Our client is happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that candidates may need during the recruitment process, and you will be asked whether you require any adjustments if shortlisted for an interview. They also make reasonable adjustments on the job, where required.
Our client is committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that they do and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Intersectionality is important to them, and they particularly welcome applications from ethnically diverse communities, LGBTQIA+ candidates and disabled candidates because they are committed to increasing the representation of these groups. They know that greater diversity will lead to even greater results for their service users, and they strive for their workforce to be truly representative of the diverse communities they support. They offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role, and will reimburse your travel costs if you attend an interview in person.
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