Manager (Job Share) Northern Emotional Wellbeing Service (NEWS)

Links Counselling Service is a community based mental health service that provides one-to-one counselling, programmes and support groups for children, young people, adults and couples. We offer a broad spectrum of therapeutic interventions and strive towards our vision, ‘No One Journeys Alone’. With a large range of networks across the community we are passionate about linking people into community life and seeing communities thrive through vibrant relationships, enhancing wellbeing for all.

Overview of the NEWS

Links Counselling Service are delighted to be providing CBT and solution focused therapy for the Northern Emotional Wellbeing Service which will operate as part of a whole systems approach that will encompass Primary Care, Specialist Mental Health Services and non-statutory provision. It is based on matching the individual Service User identified need to specific Steps of Care. Service Users who avail of the NEWS will not require treatment and will have level 2 psychological needs (Service Users who require medication or treatment will not be sent to the NEWS.)

The Northern Health and Social Care Trust is one of five health trusts in Northern Ireland that became operational on 1 April 2007. It provides a broad range of health and social care services across the Northern Trust area covering the four Trust localities - four Trust localities NHSCT i.e.

• Causeway & The Glens
• Antrim / Ballymena
• Mid Ulster
• East Antrim

Role Summary

We are recruiting a Service Manager with operational and clinical oversight to coordinate, lead and ensure smooth operations of counselling services delivered throughout the Northern Trust areas. This is a senior management position in a thriving organisation and requires an experienced practitioner (BACP, IACP, BABCP or equivalent accredited). It is essential to have experience of Counselling, management and working in an organisational setting, along with a willingness to embrace and develop a broad range of community need and networks.

The successful candidate will be responsible for sharing the triage with other service manager of up to 250 potential clients per month via telephone and develop treatment plans in line with client need or signpost onto other services. At times, the successful candidate may hold a small case load, however this is mainly an oversight position and they must be a point of contact for counsellors, GPs and Northern Trust representatives and will oversee and respond to safeguarding and clinical issues.

The successful candidate will need to demonstrate high levels of professionalism, organisation, excellent communication and management skills and be able to provide reports on a monthly basis. Close liaison with the Chief Executive and the Office Co-ordinator will be an integral part of the work. The role is subject to receiving satisfactory references, Enhanced Disclosure Access NI check and a six-month probationary period.

The successful candidate will need to demonstrate high levels of professionalism, organisation, excellent communication and management skills and be able to provide reports on a monthly basis. Close liaison with the Chief Executive and the Office Co-ordinator will be an integral part of the work. The role is subject to receiving satisfactory references, Enhanced Disclosure Access NI check and a six-month probationary period.