Job summary
Are you a qualified Mental Health Practitioner looking for your next career move to step up and become a Manager?
The purpose of the job is to take overall operational responsibility for one of the services within Off the Record. Due to recent expansion and restructuring of the senior management structure within the charity, we have several new vacancies within our services supporting young people in Croydon, Sutton and Merton.
Managing our services includes liaising with partners in the mental health sector, representing Off the Record at meetings; publicising the service; arranging client appointments; management of mental health practitioners and volunteers, acting as a safeguarding lead within the charity and a small amount of clinical supervision. You will also hold a caseload of client work.
Main duties of the job
- Responsible for the overall day to day management of the service that you will oversee, including agreeing policies and procedures; liaison with partners and establishment of appointments through outreach venues in the borough
- Responsible for the overall management and supervision of the counselling service including line management and appraisals of the paid mental health practitioners and volunteer counsellors
- Maintaining a client caseload: 4/6 clients per week including carrying out some initial meetings/ consultations. There is an expectation that, alongside the paid mental health practitioners, this post holder will provide counselling to young people in crisis or work with more complex cases as well as managing and facilitating therapeutic/wellbeing group work
- Provide line management and supervision for practitioners across our services
- Proactive liaison and networking with partner agencies within the borough including CAMHS and other NHS mental health services, local GPs and schools, local charities and volunteer organisations.
- Undertaking direct promotion and publicity of the Charitys services to young people and mental health agencies in conjunction with young people
- Ensuring that procedures and practices within the services are consistent with safeguarding responsibilities and appropriate ethical and quality frameworks e.g. BACP, Youth Access
- Full list of main duties can be found in our application pack, linked on the right hand side under 'Supporting Documents'
About us
Off the Record is an award-winning young peoples mental health charity and were currently looking for qualified, dynamic and passionate professionals who can work thoughtfully and sensitively with young people.
Our mission is to show up for all children and young peoples mental health in Southwest London.
Off the Record provides a wide range of mental health services within a humanistic model. We prize Rogerss core conditions as a foundation for relational work with young people.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This position demands a practitioner who is ready to step up to support colleagues, hold our policy and procedural framework and the BACPs Ethical framework. You also need to understand the importance of maintaining and managing professional boundaries and be able to make sound clinical decisions quickly including safeguarding and risk.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This position demands a practitioner who is ready to step up to support colleagues, hold our policy and procedural framework and the BACPs Ethical framework. You also need to understand the importance of maintaining and managing professional boundaries and be able to make sound clinical decisions quickly including safeguarding and risk.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional counselling qualification to diploma level or equivalent.
Desirable
- BACP/UKCP/BABCP accredited or eligible for accreditation.
- At least three years' experience of offering counselling/young carers support/community based interventions with young people which must be with young people. Experience of working with wellbeing or therapeutic groups.
- At least one years experience of project management including the management of paid or volunteer staff
Experience
Essential
- Experience in providing clinical supervision to other practitioners.
Desirable
- Experience of partnership working and liaison with a range of professionals.
Skills and Attitudes
Essential
- Ability to engage with young people and an understanding of the issues young people face in their lives.
- Ability to undertake mental health/young carers assessments, including risk assessments and to provide shortterm support to young people in crisis.
- High level of awareness of safeguarding responsibilities and the issues related to delivering services to young people under 16.
- High level of awareness of ethics and boundaries related to mental health interventions and the ability to maintain professional boundaries whilst responding to complex ethical dilemmas.
- Ability to maintain accurate records and statistics and compile evaluative reports.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Commitment to user involvement and working in partnership with young people in the development of the service.
- Understanding of, and commitment to, anti-discriminatory practice.
- Ability to work as part of a small team and maintain strong links with the work within the charity.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional counselling qualification to diploma level or equivalent.
Desirable
- BACP/UKCP/BABCP accredited or eligible for accreditation.
- At least three years' experience of offering counselling/young carers support/community based interventions with young people which must be with young people. Experience of working with wellbeing or therapeutic groups.
- At least one years experience of project management including the management of paid or volunteer staff
Experience
Essential
- Experience in providing clinical supervision to other practitioners.
Desirable
- Experience of partnership working and liaison with a range of professionals.
Skills and Attitudes
Essential
- Ability to engage with young people and an understanding of the issues young people face in their lives.
- Ability to undertake mental health/young carers assessments, including risk assessments and to provide shortterm support to young people in crisis.
- High level of awareness of safeguarding responsibilities and the issues related to delivering services to young people under 16.
- High level of awareness of ethics and boundaries related to mental health interventions and the ability to maintain professional boundaries whilst responding to complex ethical dilemmas.
- Ability to maintain accurate records and statistics and compile evaluative reports.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Commitment to user involvement and working in partnership with young people in the development of the service.
- Understanding of, and commitment to, anti-discriminatory practice.
- Ability to work as part of a small team and maintain strong links with the work within the charity.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
