Job summary
We are looking for one role supervising counsellors working with children and young people, and two roles supervising counsellors working with adults. If you can do both, or have additional areas such as couples, trauma, or EMDR, then that would be an advantage.
We are looking for people who are committed to the best for clients and to seeing counsellors building on their skills and continuing their development as practitioners.
The 3 roles are all part-time, for 11 hours a week, and will be completed over 2 days each week, though flexibility is required in line with requirements of the service. The roles are based onsite from our offices in the centre of Stockport, as this will help in building and maintain relationships with staff, though flexible work options will be considered.
Main duties of the job
Beacon is looking for 3 salaried supervisors to provide supervision throughout the week, with one focused on children & young peoples work, and two focused on providing supervision for work with adults, though if applicants can supervise both adult and childrens work then this is an advantage.
About us
Beacon makes a difference in the lives of thousands of people each year through its counselling and other services, improving mental health, well-being, and resilience. Effective, ethical supervision for our counsellors is crucial to the quality of service, and we are reorganising our supervision and creating 3 new part-time roles of Counselling Supervisor to provide 1-1 supervision for our team of excellent counsellors.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Employment status - Salaried employee
Pay - £35,000 pro rata (based on 37.5 hours full time)
Hours-11 Hrs per week
Holiday entitlement - 23 days plus 8 days public holiday pro rata (increasing to 28 days pro rata)
Contract - Permanent (subject to references, Enhanced DBS check, pre-employment checks, and probationary period)
MAIN OBJECTIVES
To work flexibly to provide casework supervision
To support the Designated Safeguarding Leads for Beacon in safeguarding and clinical standards at Beacon
To work with leadership team to ensure good standards of practice across all services, respond to clinical queries and advise on service development
Supervision time is expected to take up around 55% of salaried time.
Flexibility is required for this role and may include some evening work if required.
DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES
Provision of Supervision
- Providing supervision to counsellors at Beacon. This may focus on those working with adults or children & young people, or a combination of the two as appropriate to your experience and qualifications
- Maintaining the capacity and flexibility to offer supervision appointments in line with organisation and supervisee needs
- Promoting high quality and ethical practice through supervision
- Working with Designated Safeguarding Leads and others to ensure the quality of Beacons frontline services
- Management of your own case records
- Acting promptly should you become aware of any non-compliance with Beacons counselling policies, procedures and guidance
- Contributing to the development of practice within Beacon by ensuring high standards of practice by all frontline workers (counsellors and other workers)
- Ensuring that your work for Beacon is supervised by a suitably qualified and experienced external counselling supervisor. Beacon will make a fixed contribution towards this
- Ideally, maintaining own skills through counselling practice outside Beacon Safeguarding & Clinical
- Ensuring all practice adheres to the BACP Ethical Framework
- Acting as a resource for counsellors and frontline workers by dealing with day-to-day queries relating to practice and other clinical matters
- Working with the 3 Designated Safeguarding Leads to ensure all safeguarding concerns are dealt with quickly, effectively, and in line with policy and procedure
- Attending occasional internal meetings as required, for example, a meeting with managers or a clinical governance subcommittee
- Working with the Designated Safeguarding Leads to develop Beacons policy and practice, including taking part in annual safeguarding reviews as required
Information Governance
- Abiding by all policies and procedures relating to Data Protection and Information Governance
- Supporting the completion of compliance audits as appropriate
- Assisting in the implementation of any changes from the compliance audits
Other
- Being aware of and implementing all aspects of Beacons policies and procedures as they apply to frontline work
- Contributing to Beacons organisational development to advancing workplace equality; understanding the realities of unconscious bias as an important component of working to reduce it in the workplace
- Identifying your own training and development needs and implementing effective measures to meet those needs
- This is not a complete list of all tasks and it is expected that you undertake other responsibilities in line with the remit of the role
Job description
Job responsibilities
Employment status - Salaried employee
Pay - £35,000 pro rata (based on 37.5 hours full time)
Hours-11 Hrs per week
Holiday entitlement - 23 days plus 8 days public holiday pro rata (increasing to 28 days pro rata)
Contract - Permanent (subject to references, Enhanced DBS check, pre-employment checks, and probationary period)
MAIN OBJECTIVES
To work flexibly to provide casework supervision
To support the Designated Safeguarding Leads for Beacon in safeguarding and clinical standards at Beacon
To work with leadership team to ensure good standards of practice across all services, respond to clinical queries and advise on service development
Supervision time is expected to take up around 55% of salaried time.
Flexibility is required for this role and may include some evening work if required.
DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES
Provision of Supervision
- Providing supervision to counsellors at Beacon. This may focus on those working with adults or children & young people, or a combination of the two as appropriate to your experience and qualifications
- Maintaining the capacity and flexibility to offer supervision appointments in line with organisation and supervisee needs
- Promoting high quality and ethical practice through supervision
- Working with Designated Safeguarding Leads and others to ensure the quality of Beacons frontline services
- Management of your own case records
- Acting promptly should you become aware of any non-compliance with Beacons counselling policies, procedures and guidance
- Contributing to the development of practice within Beacon by ensuring high standards of practice by all frontline workers (counsellors and other workers)
- Ensuring that your work for Beacon is supervised by a suitably qualified and experienced external counselling supervisor. Beacon will make a fixed contribution towards this
- Ideally, maintaining own skills through counselling practice outside Beacon Safeguarding & Clinical
- Ensuring all practice adheres to the BACP Ethical Framework
- Acting as a resource for counsellors and frontline workers by dealing with day-to-day queries relating to practice and other clinical matters
- Working with the 3 Designated Safeguarding Leads to ensure all safeguarding concerns are dealt with quickly, effectively, and in line with policy and procedure
- Attending occasional internal meetings as required, for example, a meeting with managers or a clinical governance subcommittee
- Working with the Designated Safeguarding Leads to develop Beacons policy and practice, including taking part in annual safeguarding reviews as required
Information Governance
- Abiding by all policies and procedures relating to Data Protection and Information Governance
- Supporting the completion of compliance audits as appropriate
- Assisting in the implementation of any changes from the compliance audits
Other
- Being aware of and implementing all aspects of Beacons policies and procedures as they apply to frontline work
- Contributing to Beacons organisational development to advancing workplace equality; understanding the realities of unconscious bias as an important component of working to reduce it in the workplace
- Identifying your own training and development needs and implementing effective measures to meet those needs
- This is not a complete list of all tasks and it is expected that you undertake other responsibilities in line with the remit of the role
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of providing one-to-one counselling supervision and effectively monitoring casework
- Experience of supervising counsellors working either with adults or children & young people (or both)
- Experience of dealing with a wide range of safeguarding issues
- Able to form effective working relationships and work well as part of a team
- Highly effective communicator in one-to-one and groups, and through written communication in different formats
- Able to facilitate good communication across people and teams, including where there is disagreement
- Highly effective time management
- A qualified counsellor and supervisor with at least 2 years post-qualification practice as a counselling supervisor with Membership of a professional body
- Sound knowledge of confidentiality and data protection
- Understanding, willingness and ability to work to Beacons purpose, values, policies, procedures and guidelines
- Effective use of Microsoft Office suite and use of video meeting facilities (e.g. Zoom, Teams)
- Able to maintain accurate and appropriate records of work and manage working boundaries
- An understanding of social inequalities and a committed to reducing inequalities
Desirable
- Accredited Counsellor or working towards accreditation with BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) or another recognised body
- Experience of supervising work in any of couples, EMDR, or non-counselling settings
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of providing one-to-one counselling supervision and effectively monitoring casework
- Experience of supervising counsellors working either with adults or children & young people (or both)
- Experience of dealing with a wide range of safeguarding issues
- Able to form effective working relationships and work well as part of a team
- Highly effective communicator in one-to-one and groups, and through written communication in different formats
- Able to facilitate good communication across people and teams, including where there is disagreement
- Highly effective time management
- A qualified counsellor and supervisor with at least 2 years post-qualification practice as a counselling supervisor with Membership of a professional body
- Sound knowledge of confidentiality and data protection
- Understanding, willingness and ability to work to Beacons purpose, values, policies, procedures and guidelines
- Effective use of Microsoft Office suite and use of video meeting facilities (e.g. Zoom, Teams)
- Able to maintain accurate and appropriate records of work and manage working boundaries
- An understanding of social inequalities and a committed to reducing inequalities
Desirable
- Accredited Counsellor or working towards accreditation with BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) or another recognised body
- Experience of supervising work in any of couples, EMDR, or non-counselling settings
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
