Clinical Lead

22.5 hours per week / £49,015 per annum, pro rata / Permanent / Hybrid (two days onsite and one from home) Monday and Thursday, 9am-5pm, Friday 9am-4.30pm.

Our mission is to help children and young people have a fair chance to be who they want to be. We do this by providing a safe home, increasing life skills and self-confidence, and improving emotional wellbeing and mental health.

YMCA DownsLink Group has been delivering counselling and therapeutic services to children, young people and families through our YMCA Dialogue Service in community and school settings for over 25 years.

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced practitioner to join us to develop and implement service wide standards and frameworks, to maintain and strengthen our demonstrable clinical excellence. We are looking for a Clinical Lead to join our experienced and supportive counselling team to coordinate and deliver an innovative and clinically excellent mental health and wellbeing service. You will provide dynamic leadership; motivating and inspiring clinical practitioners in our Dialogue service to ensure the highest quality counselling service is delivered to children and young people.

In delivering the role, you will work closely with the Service Manager and Head of Service, to provide and oversee operational clinical governance including responsibility for Reflective Practice and Clinical Supervision across the service, holding a caseload and providing clear direction and support for our stakeholders. and enhancing our offer to Young People, their carers and families.

ABOUT YOU: We know that there are great candidates who will not fit everything described, or who have important skills we have not mentioned. If that is you, please do not hesitate to apply and tell us about yourself.

You will have been trained to a Post graduate level, with further experience and/or training in a recognised psychological therapy with professional accreditation (see attached job profile for further details). You will already have experience of working in Counselling and Mental Health Services for Children and Young People, or similar services, as well as managing and/or supervising a team, along with working knowledge of Trauma Informed Care and Psychologically Informed Environments and be able to hold a clinical and supervisory caseload. You will have good communication and facilitation skills and the ability to successfully manage challenging and changing priorities whilst remaining calm and solution focused. In addition, you will have experience of overseeing safeguarding procedures for young people or adults at risk and be an accredited member of a recognised Counselling and or Psychotherapy regulatory body.