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Harborne, with travel within South Birmingham and North Solihull

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Locality Counselling Service Lead 

Position: Locality Counselling Service Lead 
Location: Harborne, with travel within South Birmingham and North Solihull
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 26th April (midnight)
Interview Date:  29/30th April/1st May

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.

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.

Responsibilities

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
Required Skills/Experience

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

You may also have experience in areas such as Counselling, Counsellor, Psychotherapist, Counselling Service Lead, Counselling Services Lead, Mental Health Counselling, Mental Health Counsellor.

To Apply

You may find the job description here
If you would like an informal discussion about the role please contactj.abbott@gatewayfs.org

Please send your CV with cover letter stating why you are interested in the role and how your skills and experience match the job description to recruitment@gatewayfs.org