Description
Salary: £35,000/yr Pro Rata (£14,000/year) Location: On site (not remote):- Angel, Islington, London Hours: Part-time, 14 hours (2 days a week) Required by: ASAP (February 2025) Reporting to: CEO
About Claremont Project (Islington):
Claremont is a pioneering charity in Islington dedicated to reducing isolation and enhancing wellbeing, especially for older people. We are a community rooted in the arts, personal growth and meaningful human connection. Our centre offers an array of activities for members aged 55 and over, alongside an affordable psychotherapy service that also serves as a training placement for existentially oriented student therapists.
The Clinical Services Manager plays a vital role in ensuring the quality and safety of our psychotherapy service, as well as providing leadership in safeguarding and fostering a culture of relational practice for both members and staff. Ideally, the Clinical Services Manager will be grounded in an existential-phenomenological approach, and will embody Claremont's ethos of real listening, and authentic human connection while driving innovation across the service.
Qualifications and Experience:
- Professional qualification in psychotherapy or counselling, with current accreditation (e.g., BACP, UKCP)
- Strong organisational skills, including data management, and a high degree of competence using Microsoft Office.
- Ideally, experience managing or supervising psychotherapy services.
- Knowledge and experience of safeguarding procedures and responsibilities (training can be provided).
Essential skills and attributes:
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships across diverse teams and experience.
- Leadership qualities to inspire and support teams.
- Sensitivity to the needs of isolated or vulnerable populations, particularly older people.
- Strong commitment to ethical practice, confidentiality and client wellbeing.
Desirable:
- Experience working within a charity or community-focused organisation.
- Familiarity with therapeutic outcome measures, such as a CORE.
Administer all aspects of Claremont's Psychotherapy Service, including:
- Conducting initial client assessments and managing referrals.
- Assigning clients to therapists and maintaining waiting list.
- Tracking evaluation outcomes using CORE.
- Maintaining client database, inputting attendance data, and managing room assignments.
- Recruiting, onboarding, and ongoing support for trainee therapists.
- Liaising with supervisors regarding trainee progress and client concerns.
- Maintaining relationships with academic institutions and acting as a placement liaison.
- Providing a supportive environment for trainees.
Members & Safeguarding
- Offer practical and emotional support to Claremont members were appropriate.
- Act as the secondary Safeguarding Lead (the CEO being the primary Lead), managing safeguarding concerns and referrals to external agencies as necessary.
- Maintain, and build referral relationships with local GPs