Clinical Supervisor

Job Description and Person Specification: Clinical supervisor

**Post: Clinical Supervisor**

**Hours**: 10 hours per week (4 will be Clinical Supervisor hours and 6 of these will be clinical counselling sessions) The hours are to be confirmed and will include at least one evening a week.

**Salary**: NJC 37, £21.19 per hour, pro rata.

Please note that the 10 hours are broken down into:
6 hours: Clinical hours

4 hours: to include time for; Clinical supervision, clinical supervision groups, staff meetings, one-to-ones, annual away day, CPD and any other relevant duties needed.

**Location**: Relate Bradford Office

1st Floor, Bradford Trident Business Centre

11 Edward Street

Wakefield Road

Bradford

BD4 7BH

**Responsible to**:Chief Executive Officer

**Clinical Supervision**: Clinical Supervisor TBC

**Annual Leave**: 20 days a year, plus Bank Holidays

**Probationary Period**: 6 months

**Relate Bradford & Leeds**

Relate Bradford & Leeds is a registered charity and has a Board of Trustees, which is legally accountable for the activities of the organisation.

Relate Bradford & Leeds are fortunate to have a diverse client demographic and colleagues embrace and positively promote equal rights for those of different social, gender, ethnicity and sexual orientation.

**About Relate Bradford & Leeds**

**Why we do what we do**

Because the relationships we have with ourselves and others matter and good relationships help us all to live more fulfilled, healthier and happier lives.

**What we do**

As a caring organisation, we give you the time, space and support to explore relationships and help you see how you might be able to work through and overcome relationship challenges in order to move forward positively.
- We put you at the heart of all that we do, by providing a confidential, ethical and professional counselling service of the highest quality, exploring options, individually tailored to your current situation
- We enable you to be more aware of feelings, to explore options and to improve coping skills
- We work in partnership with others

**Our values, principles and behaviours**
- We place kindness at our core and always strive to be respectful, supportive, professional, dependable and empowering
- As a passionate, curious and creative organisation looking to the future, we endeavour to develop innovative and dynamic interventions, continually championing the importance of healthy relationships and the role they play in ensuring good mental health
- With our partner organisations, we will be helpful, responsible, collaborative and dynamic

We have an active Board, responsible for governance (steering and accounting for the organisation) whilst day to day management functions (getting things done) are organised by the Chief Executive Officer.

**The support and benefits you’ll get joining the Relate Bradford & Leeds team**
- We’re big believers in the spirit of collaboration, learning from and supporting other colleagues. You’ll never be on your own at Relate Bradford & Leeds, especially when dealing with complex cases.
- Regular group supervision.
- Access to our Practice Helpline, staffed by Relate’s senior clinical team, where you can ask questions and gain further support.
- CDP, whether that’s webinars, online discussion groups, workshops, clinical

Q&A’s and other formal learning
- Support with GDPR and legal issues
- Alongside working at an organisation with detailed clinical policies, clinical guidance and support from IT

**Main Purpose of the Role**:
To deliver and evaluate high quality, effective and professional support and a kind approach to the work.

To participate in the development of services delivered at the centre as required.

As a knowledgeable and understanding clinical supervisor, you’ll focus on supporting relationship counsellors to deliver high quality services to couples and individuals.

To be a supervisor you’ll need to be qualified appropriately in both delivering relationship counselling and supervising others to do so.

Also, appropriate qualifications in delivering and supervising the following areas would be a bonus:

- Families
- Children (5 - 10 years)
- Young people (11 - 18 years)
- Psychosexual therapy (PST)
- IAPT

Please see the below ‘Person Specification’ for more details about qualification requirements.

**Role responsibilities**
- Supervision of Relate Bradford & Leeds registered practitioners within your defined area of responsibility.
- Contributing to practitioners’ annual review in collaboration with your line manager.
- Identify/deliver/advise on CPD and other training requirements.
- Navigate and use Relate’s electronic data management systems such as

Penelope.
- Conduct mandated Case Supervision Groups.
- Attend regular consultation with Senior Practice Consultant and other colleagues in the federation.
- Attending Relate Supervisor meetings, development initiatives, training,

CPDs.
- Ensure regular consultation with