Temporary Counselling Manager - Part-Time

Lead a service that changes lives Parenthood can be a time of joy, but it can also bring significant emotional and mental health challenges. At CrossReach's Bluebell Perinatal Service, we provide compassionate, professional counselling and infant mental health support to families during the perinatal period, helping people navigate some of life's most vulnerable moments. We are seeking an experienced and inspiring Counselling Manager to lead our specialist perinatal counselling service during a period of maternity leave cover. This is a unique opportunity to guide a highly skilled therapeutic team, shape service delivery and help ensure families receive the support they need to flourish. Whether you are looking for a fixed-term leadership role or a secondment opportunity to broaden your experience, we would welcome your application for this twelve month post. What You'll Do As Counselling Manager, you will provide leadership, clinical oversight and operational management for the Bluebell Perinatal Service. You will support colleagues to deliver high-quality, person-centred counselling while ensuring the service continues to develop, innovate and achieve positive outcomes. What your role will involve • Leading and supporting counsellors, senior counsellors, volunteers and early years team to deliver a high-quality, specialist counselling service • Creating a safe, inclusive and reflective team culture where openness, trust and shared values are central • Providing regular supervision, coaching and performance support to encourage professional growth and wellbeing • Supporting service development and continuous improvement, involving your team in shaping how services evolve • Ensuring professional, ethical and legislative standards are met at all times, including safeguarding and data protection • Using management information and KPIs to support effective decision making and service planning • Working collaboratively with internal teams and external partners to strengthen service delivery and outcomes • Deputising for the Managing Coordinator when required to ensure continuity of leadership About you You will be a collaborative and compassionate leader who understands how to support people while maintaining high professional standards. You will have experience leading and developing teams within a counselling or therapeutic environment, with a strong understanding of the professional standards that underpin safe, ethical and effective counselling services. You will be confident managing service development, quality improvement and performance, able to balance compassion with accountability. You will be comfortable using IT systems, including Microsoft 365, and be a member of the PVG Scheme or willing to undertake the necessary checks. Desirable • A recognised counselling or therapeutic qualification • Experience providing clinical supervision or supporting reflective practice • Registration with a relevant professional body • Experience working within a counselling agency, health, education or voluntary sector setting • Additional specialist, supervisory or management training This is an opportunity to lead a dedicated team making a real difference to families during one of the most important periods of their lives. If you're an experienced counselling leader who is passionate about delivering high-quality therapeutic services and supporting others to thrive, we'd love to hear from you. Apply today and help us continue providing compassionate, life-changing support through the Bluebell Perinatal Service. We also offer you a range of benefits that you would expect from an organisation that support others. Firstly, there is access to a wide range of exclusive retail and leisure discounts through our rewards scheme and the Blue Light Discount card. We also ensure that your future and that of your loved ones is secured with a generous contributory pension plan and death in service benefit. Balancing work and family are made easier with our suite of enhanced family friendly policies and your health and wellness are prioritised with access to our health cash plan, giving you cash back for a wide range of health treatments. We even have access to a care concierge service to assist you with life's challenges, providing invaluable support when you need it most. But we also know that your training and development is important to you, and as well as a contribution to your professional membership fees, we are keen to support you in making the right steps to learn, grow and develop in ways that are right for you. CrossReach has been at the forefront of high quality social care for over 150 years, providing loving care to people of all ages and supporting them to live life to the full whatever their circumstances. During that time, we have worked hard to understand the needs of the people who turn to us for help and with them have been at the forefront of pioneering services which have literally changed thousands of lives for the better. Today we are one of the largest social care providers in Scotland, with experience across a broad range of services. We are still growing, learning, and improving, thanks to the incredible people we have the privilege to support, and all those who support us. We are part of the Church of Scotland and aim to provide social care services and specialist resources in Christ’s name to further the caring work of the Church to people in challenging circumstances. As we do our work in Christ’s name the job you have applied for requires you to have a Christian faith and be able to work within and uphold our Christian Ethos. This is an Occupational Requirement under Part 1 of Schedule 9 to the Equality Act 2010. This post requires you to be a member of the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme and undertake the necessary vetting checks. You will also be required to be registered with SSSC and it is your professional responsibility to ensure that you meet the standards and criteria for registration. We have a legal obligation to ensure that we do not employ any worker who has not been granted the relevant permission to work in the UK. This permission is without exception granted by UK Visas and Immigrations. We are required to check the entitlement to work in the UK of all prospective employees, regardless of nationality or job category. We are committed to ensuring that we attract, retain, and develop the very best people to build a diverse and talented team and we recognise that every individual’s unique background, experience and ability contributes to our success. We aim to create an inclusive and inspiri