Senior Counsellor

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust are seeking a Highly Specialised Senior Psychological Therapist. You will provide advanced psychological therapies within your accredited modality to clients with complex presentations, and offer clinical leadership, supervision, and support across a multidisciplinary team. You will help shape therapy pathways, drive quality improvement, and ensure services meet Talking Therapies standards, NICE guidance, and national competency frameworks. This role offers the opportunity to influence service development, contribute to research and audit, and lead a team committed to compassionate, inclusive care. We are looking for an experienced therapist with professional registration (e.g., BABCP, HCPC, BACP, UKCP), excellent clinical skills, and a passion for leadership and service excellence. This role offers the opportunity to influence service direction and the future of psychological therapy in North Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent, maintain clinical excellence, and provide visible leadership across our geographical footprint. If you are an innovative, reflective, and values-driven senior therapist ready to shape the future of psychological therapy delivery, we would welcome your application., You will:

• Deliver highly specialised, evidence-based psychological therapy to clients with complex common mental health presentations within NHS Talking Therapies criteria
• Provide clinical leadership and supervision across multidisciplinary teams (PWPs, counsellors, CBT therapists, and psychological therapists)
• Shape and develop therapy pathways in line with NICE guidance, national competency frameworks, and Talking Therapies standards
• Lead on clinical governance, quality improvement, workforce development, and service innovation
• Contribute to research, audit, and service evaluation
• Work collaboratively within a senior leadership team to ensure delivery of KPIs, productivity and high-quality patient care
  
  Holds professional accreditation/registration (e.g. BABCP, HCPC, BACP, UKCP or equivalent)
• Has substantial post-qualification experience within NHS Talking Therapies
• Demonstrates advanced formulation skills and the ability to manage complex risk
• Has experience of providing clinical supervision and leadership
• Is passionate about evidence-based practice, service development and workforce support
  
  North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust is a leading provider of mental health, social care, learning disability and substance misuse services in the West Midlands.
We are a forward-thinking Trust and are extremely proud to have attained the highest possible rating of "Outstanding" from the Care Quality Commission (CQC), one of only two specialist Mental Health Trusts in England to be awarded this. We are also delighted to have won the prestigious award of 'Trust of the Year' at the national Health Service Journal Awards 2022, the only mental health Trust to have won this so far. Our vision is 'To be Outstanding in all we do and how we do it' and the way we do inclusion is no exception. As a 'Disability Confident Employer', we very much believe that inclusion is something that you feel when you work at the Trust and we are continuously developing our culture of inclusion. Our teams pride themselves on compassion, team work and resilience.