Clinical Counselling Lead
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 13 Chwefror 2026 |
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| Cyflog: | £55,690.00 i £62,682.00 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £55690.00 - £62682.00 a year |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 08 Mawrth 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Stroud, GL5 3JG |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | C9327-26-0126 |
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To develop and oversee a supervision model that supports the NHS Talking Therapies service counselling clinicians in their work with people with the NHS Talking Therapy Service. Provide clinical supervision for the NHS Talking Therapies counselling staff. To establish and maintain effective communications within and external to the NHS Talking Therapies service, across Gloucestershires health services and partner agencies and organisations. To provide training, consultancy and supervision in NHs Talking Therapies approved counselling modalities and psychological approaches to a range of qualified/unqualified mental health/non-mental health staff within primary mental health, primary care, secondary mental health care in Gloucestershire and to other agencies as required. Services will be delivered in a wide range of settings and locations: educational facilities, GP practices, office/clinics etc. Flexible working arrangements within 37.5 hours per week, with core service hours of 8am 8pm. CORE KEY RESPONSIBILITIESClinical Accept referrals via agreed protocols within the service. Assess clients for suitability for CBT and other relevant psychological interventions. Make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the departments referral protocols, and refer unsuitable clients on to the relevant service or back to the referral agent as necessary. Formulate, implement and evaluate therapy programmes for clients. Plans and prioritises workload, exercising autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based treatment plans. Provide clinical supervision to and support the psychological work of other clinical staff that provides psychologically based care and treatment. Evaluate clinical competence of staff using a performance framework and standard tools of measurement relevant to clinical modality e.g. equivalent to CTS(R) for CBT. Educate and involve family members and others in treatment as necessary, conveying psychological formulations with sensitivity in easily understood language. Adhere to an agreed activity contract relating to the number of client contacts offered, and clinical sessions carried out per week to minimise waiting times and ensure treatment delivery remains accessible and convenient. Attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or clients in treatment, where appropriate. Complete all requirements relating to data collection within the service. Keep coherent records of all clinical activity in line with service protocols. Work closely with other members of the team ensuring appropriate step-up and step-down arrangements are in place to maintain a stepped care approach. Assess and integrate issues surrounding work and employment into the overall therapy process. Carry out clinical audits of service performance, including service user surveys and evaluations, and help to collate and disseminate the results for feedback. Training and Supervision Deliver and fulfil all the requirements of the supervision structure. To ensure that other staff, professionals, and managers (across a range of agencies and settings) have access to a psychologically based framework for the understanding and care of clients of the service, through the provision of specialist psychological advice, guidance and consultation and the sharing of psychological research and theory. To provide training to others as relevant to service need. please read the detailed Job Description and Person specification for full details. The Trust is required to work in line with the Governments UK Visa and Immigration Rules and Regulations. For more information about sponsorship for certain roles, please visit - https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas