You will provide clinical direction and maintain oversight of elop’s counselling services, bringing understanding and experience of delivering trauma-informed approaches to support the emotional health and psychological wellbeing of LGBTQ+ people.
You will oversee and contribute to clinical operational responsibilities, service coordination and delivery, ensuring a professional, safe, smooth running, efficient and well managed service is maintained. You will work alongside the senior leadership team across both strategic and clinical operational levels ensuring lead responsibilities for our counselling teams and services. Working collaboratively with the senior leadership team, implementing clinical delivery decisions, ensuring the counselling service effectively maintains ethical and professional standards of practice and communication across key staff, other agencies and service users.
You will proactively contribute to building a robust and compelling evidence base that continues to demonstrate impact, improved wellbeing, and increased resilience, and have a key role in monitoring, evaluation, and supporting the wider counselling team with reporting and using data to drive operations, and evidence-based best practice.
Your role will also include overseeing referrals and allocation of clients; undertaking client assessments; providing role-management, and clinical support and supervision to trainee and sessional counsellors; line-management of key service personnel; some clinical support work with more complex or acute needs clients; recruiting, inducting and training key staff and volunteers; and liaising with the clinical supervision team.
Full Time: 37 hours per week
There will be one regular evening/ week, and occasional other evening and weekend working required.
Salary: £34,000 inclusive London Weighting
Closing deadline for submission of application: 10.00am Monday 1 June 2026
Initial Interviews: taking place Wednesday 10 June between 9.00am – 3.00pm
N.B. at this current time all elop services are operating via a mix of in-person and remotely via online platforms, whilst we await completion of building works and relocation to new premises.
To better the mental health and well-being of LGBTQ+ people, and to challenge the discrimination and inequalities that our community face.


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The Talent Set is delighted to be partnering with the Henry Smith Foundation to recruit three Programme Assistants to join their Programme Teams. These roles sit at the heart of the organisation, providing high quality administrative and coordination support that enables colleagues to focus on meaningful, impact driven work.
This role plays a vital part in creating the conditions for good collaboration, inclusive ways of working, and well run decision making. It combines strong organisational skills with relationship centred working, care, professionalism, and a strong commitment to the Foundation’s values.
Key Responsibilities
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Provide high quality administrative and coordination support to Programme Teams, helping ensure effective day-to-day operations
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Manage diaries, meetings, travel arrangements, correspondence, and documentation for Programme colleagues.
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Coordinate meetings, panels, webinars, and events, including agenda preparation, papers, note taking, and follow up actions
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Support grants and governance processes, including maintaining accurate data on the grants management system
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Act as a first point of contact for enquiries from applicants and external partners, providing clear and timely responses
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Support basic budget tracking and financial administration in line with internal controls
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Maintain shared resources, guidance documents, contact records, and knowledge banks to ensure information is accurate and accessible
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Work collaboratively across teams to support inclusive, well run ways of working that reflect organisational values
Person Specification
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Experience in an administrative or team support role within a busy office or organisational environment
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Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and competing priorities
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Excellent written and verbal communication skills
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High level of accuracy and attention to detail, particularly when working with data and records
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Confidence using standard office IT systems and databases
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A calm, professional, and proactive approach, with the ability to work both independently and as part of a team
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Empathy and alignment with the Henry Smith Foundation’s values, including a strong commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
What’s on Offer
Salary: £32,000 per annum
Hours: Part time, 28 hours per week
Contract: 18 Month Fixed Term Contract
Location: London, 2 Days Per Week in Kings Cross Office
Interviews: Monday 15th & Tuesday 16th June 2026
How to Apply
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Commitment to Diversity
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