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This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
Job description
As Clinical Lead, you will provide professional oversight, guidance, and liaison for all cultural and emotional therapy initiatives within the organisation. You will work closely with membership, engagement, and programme teams. This role blends strategic leadership, operational management, and community-facing support to build safe, transformative, and accessible therapy systems.
Experience Qualification and Requirements
Essential / Highly Valued Experience
- Professional qualification and current registration in Clinical Psychology, Counselling Psychology, Psychotherapy, Counselling, or a closely related discipline (e.g. HCPC, BACP, UKCP, BABCP, or equivalent)
- Demonstrable experience providing trauma-informed therapeutic support, with strong understanding of how trauma, culture, identity, and systemic factors affect emotional wellbeing
- Sound knowledge of safeguarding frameworks, risk management, and ethical practice within clinical, voluntary, and community-based settings
- Working understanding of GDPR and data protection principles, particularly relating to confidential health and safeguarding information
- Experience supervising, mentoring, or providing reflective practice to clinical practitioners, facilitators, or volunteers (including non-clinical staff delivering emotional support)
- Ability to assess risk, respond calmly to complex or sensitive situations, and provide clear, proportionate clinical guidance
- Strong organisational skills, balancing strategic oversight with operational input in a volunteer or resource-limited environment
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to explain clinical concepts to non-clinical audiences and work collaboratively across teams
- High levels of professional integrity, emotional intelligence, cultural humility, and commitment to inclusive, ethical care
Main Responsibilities/ Key Duties
- Provide strategic and hands-on clinical oversight to ensure the effective delivery of culturally informed emotional and therapeutic services. Ensure that programmes are safe, ethical, inclusive, and responsive to the diverse needs of members.
- Oversee the planning, delivery, and evaluation of emotional wellbeing and therapeutic services, ensuring that interventions are culturally appropriate, trauma-informed, and aligned with the organisation’s mission and values. This includes supporting programme design, session structures, referral pathways, and evaluation frameworks to promote positive member outcomes.
- Liaise closely with therapists, facilitators, programme leads, and safeguarding officers to ensure consistent alignment with clinical governance, ethical frameworks, safeguarding policies, and professional standards. Provide expert consultation on complex considerations.
- Support the recruitment, onboarding, training, and supervision of therapy facilitators and volunteers. Advising on role suitability, contributing to training content, offering reflective supervision, and promoting best practice in boundaries, self-care, and ethical decision-making.
- Review and approve therapy protocols, session guidelines, risk assessments, and safeguarding procedures, ensuring they are clinically sound, culturally sensitive, and proportionate to the needs and risks of the service users. Ensure that all therapeutic activity complies with relevant professional regulatory standards, safeguarding legislation, and data protection requirements, including GDPR.
- Monitor member wellbeing outcomes, qualitative feedback, and service impact data to inform continuous improvement, learning, and programme development. This includes identifying trends, risks, or unmet needs and advising on appropriate service adaptations.
- As the primary clinical point of contact, the role holder will provide professional oversight for complex cases, escalations, or member concerns that require clinical judgement, risk management, or safeguarding intervention, working collaboratively with internal teams and external professionals where required.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Thank you!
Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
VOLUNTEER CHAIR OF TRUSTEES WANTED
Could you help turn a big idea into a charity that changes lives?
SUNSHINE Charity is on a mission to smash loneliness and social isolation through positivity, human connection, community and belonging — bringing SUNSHINE into people's lives.
We're a brand-new grassroots charity with a big ambition.
And we're looking for someone very special.
- A Chair.
- A leader.
- A mentor.
- A sounding board.
- A champion.
Someone who knows what good charity governance looks like — but also understands that great charities aren't built by sitting around a boardroom table.
- They're built by people.
- They're built through energy, relationships, ideas, teamwork, determination and action.
And that's where YOU could come in.
WE'RE LOOKING FOR AN EXPERIENCED TRUSTEE TO BECOME OUR CHAIR
SUNSHINE's current Board is made up of enthusiastic people who are passionate about our mission — but this is their first experience of being charity trustees.
That's why we're looking for an experienced trustee and confident Chair who can help guide, support and develop the Board as SUNSHINE grows.
WHAT WILL YOU DO?
As Chair, you'll help provide the leadership, direction and confidence that our growing charity needs.
You'll help:
1. LEAD THE BOARD
Bring trustees together, create focus and ensure the Board operates effectively.
2. DEVELOP OUR TRUSTEES
Help our first-time trustees understand their responsibilities, develop their confidence and become an effective governing team.
3. KEEP US ON TRACK
Help us balance our big ambitions with good governance, responsible decision-making, financial sustainability, safeguarding and accountability.
4. CHALLENGE & SUPPORT
Ask the difficult questions when necessary — but always constructively and with SUNSHINE's mission at the heart of decisions.
5. WORK WITH OUR FOUNDER
You'll work closely with our Founder to help turn the vision for SUNSHINE into a sustainable, properly governed and genuinely impactful charity.
The Founder has a huge amount of passion and ideas for SUNSHINE — but is also juggling a lot.
We're looking for someone who can become a trusted leadership partner and sounding board, helping turn ideas into priorities, decisions and action.
6. HELP DRIVE THE TEAM
SUNSHINE is going to need people who make things happen.
You'll help create a culture where trustees, volunteers and leaders feel:
- SUPPORTED.
- CHALLENGED.
- CONNECTED.
- VALUED.
- ACCOUNTABLE.
- INSPIRED.
THIS ISN'T A "TITLES & BOARDROOMS" ROLE
We're not looking for someone who simply wants another trustee position on their CV.
We're looking for;
- Someone who genuinely wants to build something.
- Someone who gets excited by the idea of helping a small grassroots charity grow from the ground up.
- Someone who can bring experience without bringing ego.
- Someone who can lead without needing to control everything.
- Someone who can challenge without crushing enthusiasm.
- Someone who can see the potential in people.
- And someone who believes that loneliness shouldn't be something people simply have to put up with.
We're particularly interested in someone who has:
- Previous charity trustee experience (Experience as a Chair, Vice Chair or senior trustee would be fantastic).
- A good understanding of charity governance and trustee responsibilities.
- The confidence to chair effective Board meetings.
- Experience supporting or developing fellow trustees.
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
- The ability to challenge constructively.
- Strategic thinking — while still being willing to roll up your sleeves.
- A genuine interest in tackling loneliness and social isolation.
- The energy and enthusiasm to help a young charity grow.
But above all...
WE WANT SOMEONE WHO GETS SUNSHINE.
Someone who believes that positivity matters.
That connection matters.
That community matters.
That belonging matters.
And that sometimes, something as simple as giving someone somewhere to go, someone to talk to and people to belong with can make an enormous difference.
WHY JOIN SUNSHINE?
Because you won't be joining an established organisation where everything has already been decided.
- You'll be joining at the beginning.
- You'll have the opportunity to help shape:
OUR CULTURE.
OUR GOVERNANCE.
OUR PROGRAMMES.
OUR VOLUNTEER COMMUNITY.
OUR PARTNERSHIPS.
OUR FUTURE.
- You'll help create the foundations that could allow SUNSHINE to reach thousands of people across London in the years ahead.
And you'll have the opportunity to help a group of passionate first-time trustees become a confident, capable and effective Board.
COME SHINE WITH US.
SUNSHINE Charity
Positivity • Human Connection • Community • Belonging
Non Charity Employer
11 - 20
SUNSHINE Charity is a small grassroots charity with ambition to smash loneliness with positivity, human connection, community and belonging
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Thank you!
Could your fundraising expertise help save lives?
The Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS) is looking for a Trustee with senior fundraising, supporter engagement and income generation experience to join our Board.
This voluntary role is an opportunity to use your expertise to help shape the future of a life-saving charity. As a Trustee, you'll provide strategic oversight, constructive challenge and specialist governance, helping to ensure we can continue delivering critical care to people across the North East, North Yorkshire, Cumbria and the Isle of Man.
You won't be involved in delivering fundraising activity day to day. Instead, you'll work alongside fellow Trustees to scrutinise strategy, monitor performance, oversee risk and ensure our fundraising remains ethical, effective and aligned with our mission.
We're particularly interested in hearing from people with senior experience in fundraising, development, external engagement or income generation within the charity, social enterprise, public benefit or purpose-led sectors.
You will bring experience in:
· Fundraising strategy and income diversification
· Donor stewardship, supporter journeys and campaign planning
· Fundraising governance, compliance and ethical practice
· Board-level thinking, constructive challenge and sound judgement
· Building relationships and acting as an ambassador for a mission-led organisation
You will also share our mission, values, equity, diversity and inclusion, and Nolan’s seven principles of public life.
Time commitment
The Board meets at least four times a year, plus a strategy day. Trustees are encouraged to sit on two Board Committees, with additional contact usually taking place by email, telephone or Microsoft Teams.
Interested?
If you are passionate about using your fundraising expertise to make a meaningful difference, we would be pleased to hear from you.
Closing date for applications: 28th August 2026
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.