Step 3 Team Lead (Locality Lead), Counsellor or HIT CBT Therapist

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a passionate individual with great leadership skills to join our talking therapies Senior Management Team.

This is a great opportunity for someone looking to progress their career from a Senior Counsellor or Senior HIT CBT Therapist role and where will be managing a mix of Counselling and HIT CBT modalities.

In this role, you will be managing and supporting our Counsellors and Cognitive Behavioural Therapists as they use their expertise to make a real difference to individuals lives.

Working closely with the talking therapies Senior Management Team, you will assist in the delivery of a cost effective and efficient service. You will be responsible for ensuring that the service is developed and maintained effectively and play a vital role in both supporting and motivating your team to ensure they deliver high quality interventions that reflect local and national priorities and targets and meet the organisations requirements.

Main duties of the job

To succeed in this role, you must be an experienced clinician with a proven track record of delivering excellent results within talking therapies services, and be able to demonstrate strong leadership skills, with the ability to ensure your team are engaged whilst also delivering high quality therapy interventions in line with service targets.

About you

We would love to hear from you, if you possess the following:

• Experienced in your field of expertise with either a high intensity therapy qualification (or equivalent), or BACP (or equivalent) Accreditation.
• Ability to lead a team, providing support and motivation to ensure your team are engaged and deliver high quality therapy interventions that meet service targets
• Have strong decision-making skills and are able to make and communicate decisions in a timely and justifiable manner
• Have a good working knowledge of the NHS Talking Therapies programme and the challenges and opportunities it presents
• Have experience of meeting service targets, monitoring quality and safety
• Are able to work under pressure, with attention to detail
• Are creative and resourceful, flexible and adaptable

About us

We offer a range of talking therapies, advice, information, and support. We will help you to understand your problems, work through difficult feelings, and develop coping strategies to help you feel better.

What we offer in return

• 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays (rising to 32 days at 5 years service) and the option to purchase or sell days
• Enhanced pension
• Wagestream-ability torelease earnings, giving youinstant access to your pay
• Refer a Friend payment
• Vitality Wellbeing Programme including Employee Assistant Programme, GP and priority physiotherapy access and shopping discounts with the opportunity to sign up for a Blue Light Card
• Free Will Writing and Confidential Financial Advice
• Technology salary sacrifice scheme for home appliances, tablets, mobiles, TVs, fitness trackers and more
• A supportive culture that values work-life balance including agile working and the option to apply for flexible working from day one, career breaks, and up to a weeks special leave a year to help you manage unexpected life events
• Various colleague networks including neurodiversity, LGBTQ+ and BAME
• Ongoing CPD Through our brand new 'Elevate' programme, we work with experts from across the country to bring high-quality CPD to our teams, to help further their skills and knowledge and improve the support we provide
• Family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Volunteer programme
• Enhanced life assurance scheme, payment being three times your annual salary