COUNSELLING CO-ORDINATOR (TYNESIDE & NORTHUMBERLAND)

Permanent subject to funding. (Full time – can be negotiated to 30hrs)

£ 33,486 – 35,336 per annum pro rata, depending on experience (NJC Pt 29 – 31), plus 3% pension contribution

 *Female applicants only: Schedule 9 (paragraph 1) of the Equality Act 2010 applies

Would you like to lead a thriving, dynamic, highly-skilled sexual violence counselling team? Do you share our passion for delivering high-quality, survivor-led, strengths-based and trauma-informed services to women survivors of sexual violence? Would you like to join our feminist ‘by and for’ women’s organisation, with a mission to end gender-based sexual violence?

Rape Crisis Tyneside and Northumberland are looking to recruit a tenacious female Counselling Co-ordinator, to manage and nurture a core team of highly dedicated and capable counsellors and support the day-to-day operations of the our Sexual Violence Counselling Service.

As a manager of the counselling service, you will have excellent interpersonal skills able to support counsellors with clinical issues and lead them positively and sensitively through service changes and developments.

You will work effectively and collaboratively to monitor waiting list. You will be a solution-focused, diplomatic leader, able to work flexibility across other teams and services, and with other managers and staff, to advance excellent practice across the organisation for the benefit of women survivors.

You must be an experienced counsellor, ideally with previous management experience. We welcome applications from roles in a range of relevant sector and service specialisms. We particularly welcome women from a range of backgrounds, identities and those from protected characteristics.

As a counsellor, you must be BACP or UKCP Accredited and have experience of face-to-face, telephone or online counselling. We require someone who can work within the spirit of RCTN’s values and adhere to Rape Crisis National Service Standards

Rape Crisis Tyneside and Northumberland have a strong ethos in supporting staff and volunteer continuing professional development. The successful candidate will be offered generous training opportunities and 32 holidays a year, with all bank holidays in addition. We offer flexible-working, with a mixture of home-working and working from our central base in Newcastle, as well as visiting outreach counsellors across Tyneside and Northumberland.

Deadline for applications is 28th April 2023 at 12 noon  

Interviews will be held on Tuesday 2nd May 2023 

Start date for successful candidate – as soon as possible

For more information contact spearce@rctn.org.uk 

Please download the application, job description.

Please note we welcome video applications also.