We are recruiting Clinical Supervisors to join The Awareness Centre and support our trainee therapists on placement within our NHS Talking Therapies Services. We welcome applications from supervisors across the UK with diverse lived experiences, cultural backgrounds, identities, and perspectives.
You will provide group supervision twice monthly to trainee therapists working within our NHS Counselling Services. Our NHS placement embraces a solution-focused, evidence-based approach.
All groups are two hours with up to 5 trainees attending; held online on weekdays, either in the morning or the afternoon.
The Awareness Centre adopts an integrative model with many of our trainees covering Existential, Gestalt, Person Centred, Psychodynamic, and Integrative modalities as part of their training and also looking at Petruska Clarkson’s 5-level model.
The supervisor will need experience of working within an NHS Talking Therapies Service, have worked with the IAPTus database, and have experience of working with the PHQ9/GAD7 metrics for Depression and Anxiety symptoms.
You will hold clinical responsibility for adult clients who are seen weekly by placement therapists. The role includes approving discharge letters and GP letters, maintaining clinical supervision records, and completing relevant supervisor reports to support trainees’ training.
Our clinical supervisors are provided with monthly group supervision with our Senior Supervisor, and you will have support from the Director of Clinical Services and the clinical management team.
This is a self-employed role. Fees are £50/hour for supervision, plus £40/mth for admin.
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:
- Support students’ understanding of theories in relation to practice, with consideration to the short-term work offered by NHS Talking Therapies, focusing on the evidence-based service and understanding how to work within recovery rates and to work with a multi-disciplinary team.
- Support trainees’ practises in re-assessing their clients presenting issues following initial triage and formulating a treatment plan for the therapeutic work within the NHS.
- Ensure trainees are working ethically and within their competence.
- Manage any risk or safeguarding issues in line with all risk protocols, supported by the wider clinical team.
- Provide a supportive, learning environment to trainee therapists that encourages both professional and personal development whilst in placement.
QUALIFICATION AND SKILLS:
- Accredited counsellor/psychotherapist (UKCP or BACP) holding a Diploma in Clinical Supervision.
- Ability to work clinically using an integrative approach and within the BACP Ethical Framework (2018).
- Experience working as a clinical supervisor online, offering group supervision to placement therapists.
- Teaching, assessing, and supporting the trainee’s development throughout their training placement.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to write supervisor reports.
