Lead Counsellor - Wimborne, Dorset

About the Role As the Lead Counsellor within our alcohol and nonopiate support service, you will play a central role in ensuring the delivery of highquality, clientcentred therapeutic support. Working within the HAGA/STAND partnership, you will lead on the clinical integrity of our counselling provision, ensuring that residents receive safe, effective, and compassionate support. You will oversee the full therapeutic pathwayfrom assessment through to interventionensuring best practice, safeguarding, and quality standards are upheld across the service. Key Duties • Provide clinical leadership for the counselling function, ensuring safe and effective therapeutic delivery. • Recruit, supervise, and support counsellors and trainees working within the service. • Offer expert guidance on complex and highrisk cases, supporting decisionmaking and escalation. • Oversee the assessment and referral process to ensure timely, robust, and clientcentred pathways. • Lead on quality assurance for therapy provision, including monitoring, feedback, and auditing. • Review and maintain clinical notes and ensure compliance with service policies and professional standards. • Regularly review and update therapeutic policies, processes, and safeguarding practices. • Build and maintain effective relationships with external agencies to support safe, coordinated client care. Job description Job responsibilities About the Role As the Lead Counsellor within our alcohol and nonopiate support service, you will play a central role in ensuring the delivery of highquality, clientcentred therapeutic support. Working within the HAGA/STAND partnership, you will lead on the clinical integrity of our counselling provision, ensuring that residents receive safe, effective, and compassionate support. You will oversee the full therapeutic pathwayfrom assessment through to interventionensuring best practice, safeguarding, and quality standards are upheld across the service. Key Duties • Provide clinical leadership for the counselling function, ensuring safe and effective therapeutic delivery. • Recruit, supervise, and support counsellors and trainees working within the service. • Offer expert guidance on complex and highrisk cases, supporting decisionmaking and escalation. • Oversee the assessment and referral process to ensure timely, robust, and clientcentred pathways. • Lead on quality assurance for therapy provision, including monitoring, feedback, and auditing. • Review and maintain clinical notes and ensure compliance with service policies and professional standards. • Regularly review and update therapeutic policies, processes, and safeguarding practices. • Build and maintain effective relationships with external agencies to support safe, coordinated client care.