Senior Counsellor
| Posting date: | 02 April 2026 |
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| Salary: | £55,690.00 to £62,682.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £55690.00 - £62682.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 April 2026 |
| Location: | Newcastle-under-Lyme, ST5 1BH |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9232-26-0087 |
Summary
Provide clinical leadership on (Cognitive Behaviour Therapy / Counselling & Relational Psychotherapies / Low intensity therapies / Long Term Conditions)and associated consultation, training and clinical supervision to other team members. 2. Provide evidence based psychological therapy within your specified modality to a more complex clinical population that cannot be met in a standard IAPT pathway but still meet the top end criteria for NHS Talking Therapies. 3. To provide clinical leadership to the service and operate within the senior leadership team 4. Ensure services meet the national competency frameworks, ensuring workforce compliance with NICE approved therapies and relevant psychological therapy / supervision competency frameworks (e.g Roth & Pilling). 5. With the clinical lead, provide a quality feedback framework, by inputting to incident report reviews, critical incidents and serious incident reports, providing feedback and supporting staff, whilst assisting in identifying themes for improvements. 6. Contribute to the implementation of specialist area pathways and provide ongoing monitoring. 7. Engage in research activity within the services, providing a point of contact and a conduit to research colleagues. Further information on attached Job Description.