Clinical Supervisors – 3x roles available
Service: Relate
Salary: £46,984 FTE per annum (£24.42 per hour)
Pro rata: £25,396.76 per annum for part-time, 20 hours per week
Additional £480 FTE per year home working allowance (pro rata)
Location: Home-based
Hours: 3 roles at 20 hours per week
We offer flexible working arrangements, please see below for more details.
Contract: Permanent
About Relate
Relate is the UK's best-known provider of relationship counselling and the national specialist in intimate relationships. Every year we deliver high-quality counselling and therapeutic services to thousands of clients, making it possible for more people to make informed, realistic choices about love, sex and relationships.
We are committed to practice that is non-judgemental, culturally sensitive, and responsive to the diverse backgrounds, identities and lived experiences of our clients.
Relate sits within Family Action, a national charity that has supported people through change, challenge and crisis for 150 years. The family charity and the relationship specialists - together we are stronger.
Our clinical culture is grounded in reflective practice, ethical rigour and a genuine respect for the complexity of intimate relationships.
We are now growing our clinical team and are recruiting to multiple Relate Counsellor roles and three Clinical Supervisor roles (please see our other advert for the Counsellor roles, ID 1886). Whether your strength lies in direct therapeutic work with individuals and couples, or in supporting and developing other practitioners through supervision, this is an opportunity to be part of the UK's leading relationship counselling service at a pivotal moment of growth and transformation.
This role is for you if…
• You are committed to safe, ethical and inclusive practice shaped by client need.
• You value reflective practice and see supervision as central to doing your best work.
• You are confident working with complexity and risk and know when and how to escalate concerns.
• You bring a psychodynamic and systemic understanding of relationships to your work.
• You want to help shape the future of relationship therapy at national scale.
About the Clinical Supervisor Role
As a Clinical Supervisor, reporting to our Clinical Practice Lead, you will provide clinical supervision to Relate practitioners, upholding our clinical standards and nurturing a culture of reflective practice and learning. You will be a key source of specialist safeguarding guidance, helping counsellors work safely and confidently with high-risk and complex cases.
Hours and working pattern: We are recruiting three Clinical Supervisors at 20 hours per week each. There is no set working pattern for these roles.
You will:
• Deliver regular individual and group clinical supervision, including facilitating case supervision groups.
• Provide specialist guidance on safeguarding and risk, and support counsellors with complex, high-risk and ethically challenging cases.
• Carry out case note reviews and audits, and work with Practice Managers on six-monthly counsellor reviews.
• Contribute to complaint investigations, serious incident reviews and safeguarding audits, making sure learning is embedded in practice.
• Support counsellors to reflect on power, bias, identity and difference, and contribute to training that strengthens inclusive practice.
• Contribute to service evaluations, quality reviews and clinical meetings that inform how our services develop.
About You
(for full details, see the job description and person specification)
You will bring:
• A Level 5 / Column B (or above) qualification in Relationship Therapy and a qualification in Counselling Supervision, from Relate or an equivalent provider.
• Accredited, full clinical membership of a recognised professional body (e.g. BACP, UKCP, NCPS, COSRT).
• Significant post-qualifying experience in couple counselling and sex therapy, including providing supervision and/or oversight of clinicians’ caseloads.
• In-depth knowledge of safeguarding legislation, ethical frameworks and quality assurance in therapeutic settings.
• A strong track record in supervision and clinical governance, and the credibility to build trusting professional relationships.
• Confidence using data, insight and evaluation to drive clinical practice.
A postgraduate (Level 7) qualification in a relevant field, or a published contribution to the development of therapy, would be an advantage.
We would welcome hearing from Clinical Supervisors who are trained to work with families and/or young people (YP), or who would be interested in training.
Working with us
As part of Relate's clinical team, you'll be employed by Family Action, which means you'll benefit from the infrastructure, stability and employment offer of an established national charity while doing your day-to-day work within Relate's specialist clinical team.
Benefits:
- an annual paid leave entitlement of 30 working days plus bank holidays (pro-rata for part-time roles)
- up to 6% matched-pension contributions
- flexible working arrangements and new starters have the right to make flexible working requests from day one of employment
- enhanced paid sick leave and paid family leave provisions
- eye care and winter flu jabs vouchers
- cycle to work scheme
- investing in your professional development with ongoing quality training and career development opportunities
Family Action are a people focused, can-do organisation, which strives for excellence in all we do and operates with mutual respect.
To Apply:
If you’re excited by the opportunity to deliver, or support others to deliver, high quality relationship therapy at Relate, we would love to hear from you. Please make clear in your application which role you are applying for. If you meet 80% or more of the essential criteria, we would still encourage you to apply or get in touch with us for a conversation.
• Click the “Apply Now” link below and fill out our digital application form
• Closing Date: 16th October at 23:59
Interview date: Across WC 2nd and WC 13th
Location: held on Microsoft Teams.
For direct queries or if you would like to discuss any aspect of the selection process or flexible working requests, please email: Bev.Reynolds@relate.org.uk
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion:
We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that candidates may need during the recruitment process and you will be asked whether you require any adjustments if shortlisted for interview. We also make reasonable adjustments on the job, where required.
We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Intersectionality is important to us and we particularly welcome applications from ethnically diverse communities, LGBTQIA+ candidates and disabled candidates because we are committed to increasing the representation of these groups across Family Action and within Relate's clinical team.
All candidates with a disability are welcome to apply under the Disability Confident Scheme and request priority consideration for an interview, provided they meet the essential criteria for the role.
To help remove financial barriers to working with us, we will reimburse travel costs if you are invited to attend an interview in person.
Appointments are subject to satisfactory Safer Recruitment checks, including a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check where appropriate to the role.
*Ordinarily Family Action appoints new starters at the starting point of the salary scale (with subsequent annual pay progression), unless you have experience that would justify appointment further up the salary scale or there are any other exceptional reasons.
