Clinical Lead - Bradford, United Kingdom - The Cellar Trust

Description

POST:
Clinical Lead


LOCATION:
Shipley & Keighley


GRADE:
F1.


Salary:
£33,000 (FTE) per annum + £2,000 Clinical Supplement


HOURS:
hours per week





APPLICATION:
CV and Cover letter.

Purpose of the Job:

Day-to-day operational management and leadership of a high-quality counselling service, meeting the needs of clients.


Main Duties:

• Support the Head of Service to ensure service performance targets are met by monitoring and acting on statistical reports.
• Maintain and develop appropriate systems to allocate clients to the right counsellor and ensuring the best use of counsellor time.
• Ensure that staff collate all data required for service monitoring, including client outcomes and feedback forms.
• Hold regular 121 meetings with all bank clinical staff and volunteers, providing management supervision, support and guidance in support of their role with The Cellar Trust (TCT).
• Provide advice and support to counsellors in dealing with formal requests from other agencies including the criminal justice system and social services.
• Oversee the supervision of student counsellors and engage and support them on placement and complete paperwork as required by the learning provider.
• Work with the Head of Service to ensure clinical governance is implemented effectively providing leadership and advice, in accordance with our Clinical Governance Framework.
• Review the training of counsellors and volunteers to ensure therapeutic skills are up to date and prepare an annual training plan.
• Review and report serious incidents in line with organisational procedures, ensuring lessons are learnt and recommendations implemented.
• Ensure safeguarding practice for young people and vulnerable adults are followed by all counsellors, students and volunteers.
• Undertake clinical audits as agreed with the Head of Service.

Other Duties:

• Develop and maintain links with other agencies to benefit both our clients and the service.
• Represent TCT at relevant external meetings and events as required.
• Take a lead role in engaging client's participation in service development through feedback, reporting back to the Head of Service as required.

Values and Behaviours:

• Create and maintain a culture of respect always challenging and rooting out discrimination and stigma.
• Demonstrate a consistent belief in people and tenacity in supporting people to improve their future.
• Be passionate about our work and inspire others to feel the same.
• Be committed to doing things well and look for opportunities for improvement at all times.
• Model excellent partnership and team working.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Knowledge

• Relevant recognised qualification at a minimum of
  Level 4 Diploma in the field of counselling, psychotherapy, psychosexual therapy or psychology. In addition, you must hold Accredited Member status with the BACP or COSRT or be a registered member of the UKCP or HPC and possess a minimum of 400 clinical client hours and at least 2 years of postqualifying experience.
• Practical and current understanding of safeguarding and managing risk in a clinical setting.

Experience

• 2 years' experience of providing good quality Clinical Supervision.
• 2 years' experience of working in a relevant clinical setting.
• Track record of delivering successfully in partnership with other organizations.
• 2 Years' experience of working with vulnerable people.

Skills

• Supervisory and people management skills through supervision of a team of staff.
• Ability to use Microsoft office packages including word and excel to a good standard.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to collate and interpret data for relevant audiences.

Values

• A firm belief that all people matter and deserve respect.
• An evidenced belief that everyone can change.
• A track record of delivering on your commitments.
• A personal commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion.

Job Types:
Full-time, Part-time, Permanent

Part-time hours: per week


Salary:
£35,000.00 per year


Benefits:

• Company pension
• Flexitime
• Health & wellbeing programme
• Sick pay

Schedule:

• Flexitime
• Monday to Friday
• Weekend availability

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Bradford,

West Yorkshire:
reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)


Experience:

• 2 Years Clinical Supervision (required)

Licence/Certification:

• Level 4 Diploma and BACP or COSRT membership (required)

Work Location:
In person

Application deadline: 01/07/2023


Reference ID:
TCT F1