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About the Department
The Church of England Foundation for Educational Leadership was set up in 2017 with the mission to 'develop inspirational leaders who are called, connected, committed to deliver the Church of England vision for education'. Since then, it has operated a wide range of leadership development programmes, networks, research, conference and events, and published a range of key leadership resources to equip school leaders at every level to put their vision into practice.
Part of this provision has been as a very successful national provider of NPQ programmes. Beginning in 2017 with the delivery of NPQs for Headteachers, our suite of programmes has now expanded to include programmes for Specialist Teachers, Senior Leaders and also Executive Leaders. More recently, a partnership between the Church of England and the Catholic Education Service is also enabling programmes to be delivered more widely as together our school provision represents around 34% of the sector.
In 2025, the department will launch three new national programmes: Flourishing Leaders, Flourishing Teachers, and Flourishing ECTs (in partnership with UCL). These programmes respond to growing demand for high-quality, values-led professional learning and represent a significant expansion of our work across the education sector.
About the Role
As Programme Lead for Flourishing ECTs, you will oversee the successful delivery of the Flourishing ECTE programme: a professional learning offer we have developed at the Church of England in partnership with UCL.
You will ensure these programmes are delivered with excellence across a wide network of regional partners, supporting facilitators to create high-impact learning experiences for school leaders and teachers. Your role will involve coordinating delivery partners, refining programme content based on feedback and research, and ensuring that participants are well-supported throughout their learning journey.
You will play a key role in shaping the future of these programmes, driving continuous improvement and championing a vision of leadership and teaching that enables adults in education to flourish.
We are open to full-time, or part-time applications for this role. Please indicate your interest within your application. For an informal conversation about the role, please contact
Professional Responsibilities
- Lead the design and delivery of the Flourishing ECTEs programme, delivered in partnership with University College London (UCL).
- Ensure 'Flourishing Content' is continually improving and evolving, establishing a truly unique ECTE offer.
- Equip, train, and support facilitators to deliver programme content effectively, ensuring that training is tailored to the specific context and needs of the ECT phase across regional cohorts.
- Deliver elements of programme content in both large-scale virtual settings and smaller regional groups (virtually or face-to-face).
- Ensure effective curriculum delivery and knowledge application in early career teaching contexts, aligned with UCL's curriculum framework and standards.
- Collaborate with other Programme Leads to ensure coherence and consistency across programmes and to share best practice.
- Use leadership credibility to contribute to programme visibility and engagement, including sharing expertise through blogs, videos, and speaking at external events.
Staff Management and Collaboration. - Work closely with UCL and a wide network of delivery partners to ensure effective programme implementation and regional coordination.
- Lead the setup and onboarding of new Delivery Partners, ensuring they are well-prepared and supported to deliver the programme in line with UCL's expectations.
- Collaborate with other Programme Leads and the wider Professional Learning Team to deliver high-quality learning experiences for participants.
- Line manage members of the programme team, providing supervision, guidance, and support to ensure effective delivery and professional development.
Quality and Standards
- Implement robust quality assurance processes across all stages of programme delivery, responding to feedback and driving continuous improvement.
- Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) such as attendance, engagement, and completion, working with UCL and Delivery Partners to ensure targets are met.
- Ensure participants are well prepared for assessment, supporting consistently high success rates.
- Regularly review feedback and address areas for improvement through curriculum design and facilitator development.
Communication and Engagement
- Ensure excellent communication with UCL, Delivery Partners, and participants, including oversight of inbox management and timely responses to queries.
- Coordinate external communications and logistics for events, briefings, and programme updates, ensuring a high-quality experience for all stakeholders.
Research and Development
- Engage with governance and research groups, including UCL, to ensure programme content is underpinned by current evidence and responsive to emerging themes.
- Work with school leaders and sector experts to bring evidence-led leadership development to life within the ECT phase of the programme.
Essential
Knowledge and Experience:
- Successful senior leadership experience within the education sector.
- Proven impact in designing and delivering professional development, particularly in relation to NPQs, ECTE or the Church of England's Flourishing programmes.
- Experience of leading teams of facilitators and/or coaches in a professional learning context.
- Strong understanding of the NPQ/ECF frameworks and their research base.
- Secure understanding of the Church of England Vision for Education and its application in schools.
- Experience in evaluating the impact of professional learning programmes using qualitative and quantitative data.
Skills and Abilities:
- Ability to design and deliver research-informed teacher development programmes.
- Excellent facilitation and presentation skills, both in-person and online, with large and small groups.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to engage a wide range of stakeholders.
- Confident in managing complex projects and ensuring high-quality delivery across multiple partners.
- Ability to oversee and assure the quality of facilitation across a distributed delivery network.
Personal Attributes:
- Creative, reflective, and responsive to feedback.
- Committed to excellence and consistency in programme delivery.
- Organised and systematic, with a track record of successful project implementation.
- Collaborative and values-driven, with a commitment to inclusive leadership development.
Education:
- Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).
Desirable
Education:
- Postgraduate qualification in a relevant field.
- Specialist qualifications in educational leadership and/or coaching.
Skills and Abilities:
- Experience in designing and delivering blended or online learning using digital platforms.
- Coaching skills and/or experience of delivering coaching training.
Knowledge and Experience:
- Experience of embedding the Church of England Vision for Education in a school or system leadership context.
- Experience in managing regional or national projects with multiple stakeholders.
- Recent and varied experience of leadership coaching in school or system settings.
- Familiarity with national professional development frameworks and their application across different phases and contexts.
Circumstances
- Whilst this is a remote role, the post-holder will need to travel on occasion. This could be for NSE Team Days, NSE Residential (one overnight stay in the Autumn each year), Professional Learning Team Days, other events such as the National Conference, DP Days etc.
- It is anticipated that there will be approximately 12 travel days per year, although this will vary.
- In addition, in this leadership role, you will be involved in Partnerships and Engagement development, promoting the NSE's Flourishing programmes with current and prospective delivery partners, and undertaking QA as required (number of days TBC each year in conversation with line manager)
Closing date for applications is 08 March at 23:55 pm
Registered Charity
101 - 500
The Church of England’s vocation is and always has been to proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ afresh in each generation to the people of England.
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ReachOut is a national youth development charity and a strategic partner for schools. Through collective mentoring and engaging activities, we build socio-emotional skills that transform outcomes for young people constrained by circumstance.
Our Youth Development Leads are the heart of our programme delivery and facilitate high quality & impactful sessions for our young people. Reporting to the Programmes & Impact Manager, you’ll work with autonomy to manage your school partners, develop your team of volunteer mentors and collaborate across our ambitious delivery team with a focus on evidence based continuous improvement.
Contract: Permanent with a probationary period of 6 months
Salary: £25,000 – £27,500 pro rata
Location, Hours and Annual Leave:
- We’re recruiting for one part time (0.8 FTE) position in London
- In-school project delivery around London on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Hybrid working for the remainder of your time – choose to work from home or in our London office (Victoria)
- 30 hours a week Tuesday – Friday with a mixed working pattern. School term time approximately 2 days 9:00-17:30 and 2 days 11:00-19:30, and School holidays 9:00-17:30
- 23 days per year annual leave – maximum of 4 days to be taken in school term time
Application Deadline
- 9am Monday 2nd March 2026
For the full description, person specification, and background information, please download the Recruitment Pack found below or on our website.
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Following a successful application to the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, we are seeking a Youth Worker to lead on systems change as part of our Brighter Rainbow Project. A key requirement of the post is to hold a JNC Level 6 Youth and Community Work qualification or equivalent (or due to complete 2026- 2027). We also welcome applicants with related subjects including nursing, primary teaching, secondary teaching, social work etc.
Registered Charity
11 - 20
The Brunswick Centre offers services and projects to various communities in Calderdale and Kirklees.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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The Christian Young Leaders Programme is a new workstream focused on equipping, resourcing, and commissioning 4,500 young leaders (school years 9-13) for mission and ministry with children and young people by 2030. These young leaders will join the programme through churches, youth work, and educational settings, contributing to 15% of the overall 30k target by 2030.
At its heart, this programme expresses the conviction that young people are a full part of the Body of Christ, not future members of the Church but active disciples and leaders within the church. Initial design work for the programme has been developed in partnership with colleagues from Vision & Strategy, Education (the National Society), the Ministry Development Team, and a range of parachurch organisations. The programme will build on best practice from dioceses, schools, and local church contexts, ensuring safeguarding and inclusion remain central to every aspect.
The Young Leader Programme Lead will lead this new Christian Young Leaders programme from pioneering pilots through to full scale delivery across the Church of England to enable 4500 young people to grow in their faith and engage in mission and ministry with children and young people by 2030.
The post-holder will lead a national Christian formation programme for young leaders that becomes locally owned which helps young people grow in confident faith and discover their gifts as they contribute to being change-makers in the life of the Church and the wider community.
Key to our approach is a commitment to build upon existing good practice in dioceses, schools, and local church contexts and to ensure that young people's voices are heard throughout the process. Alongside this, we are committed to ensuring that safeguarding and inclusion are central to every aspect of the programme.
This is a fixed-term position until 31 Dec 2028
Interviews will be held on Monday 02 March
Responsibilities
- Lead the Young Leaders workstream of the 30K Project
- Lead the development of the national Christian leadership formation framework and any accreditation mechanisms for the Young Leaders Programme.
- Recruit an initial 3 pilot diocese, providing training and coordination for early implementation.
- Work closely with the diocesan pilot contexts to shape the programme around existing Christian local young leaders' initiatives and best practice.
- Co-design the Christian formation programme content with young people, youth practitioners, diocesan teams, leadership parachurch agencies, integrating discipleship and leadership concepts shaping CYP content for CYP.
- Ensure the Christian formation programme is engaging, inspiring, and integrates strong Christian themes and theological threads throughout.
- Co-ordinate and manage national and regional gatherings and networking opportunities to maximise the missional impact of this Christian leadership programme.
- Lead the development of resources, branding, and communications to promote the programme nationally.
- Build collaborative partnerships with dioceses, schools and Christian youth organisations to deliver the programme locally.
- Ensure close coordination with the wider 30k Project, Ministry Development Team, Vision and Strategy, Growing Faith Foundation, and Education Team initiatives.
- Work closely with safeguarding professionals to ensure the programme has safeguarding embedded in its design, delivery and frameworks.
- Address the need to train and support a network of Christian mentors, youth ministers and local leaders to support the Christian formational and missional aims of the programme.
- Lead ongoing evaluation and refinement based on pilot learning to inform national rollout.
About You
Essential
Knowledge/Experience:
- A passionate commitment to the bold outcome of doubling the number of children and young people who are disciples of Jesus Christ by 2030, and specifically to the objectives of the project.
- Able to model and nurture Christian discipleship to children and young people through your own Christian practices such as prayer, reading of Scripture and participation in the worshipping life of the Church.
- A track record of effective delivery as part of a project team, ideally at a national level.
- Demonstratable understanding of safeguarding in work with under 18's.
- A strong track record of Christian discipleship and leadership formation in young people.
- Experience of working with local and regional partners to build from existing or pilot programmes.
- Personally committed to and passionate about changing the culture of the Church of England.
- Experience of enabling the agency and the voice of children and young people.
- Theology and/or Christian leadership credentials, such as a BA Theology/Diploma or alternative CYPF ministry qualification.
Skills & Abilities:
- High levels of personal organisation.
- Strong written and oral communication.
- Well-developed stakeholder engagement skills to enable the Young Leader workstream to flourish amongst a wide range of stakeholders including parachurch organisations and especially dioceses and Bishops.
- Well-developed emotional intelligence to enable healthy working relationships in a geographically dispersed team/Board.
Personal Attributes:
- This post is subject to an occupational requirement that the holder be a Christian under Part 1 of Schedule 9 to the Equality Act 2010
Desirable
- Knowledge of the Church of England structures and youth discipleship initiatives.
- Experience of co-designing with young people or leading intergenerational ministry.
- Experience commissioning or managing external consultants.
Registered Charity
101 - 500
The Church of England’s vocation is and always has been to proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ afresh in each generation to the people of England.
Thank you!
36 hours per week / £36,530 per annum pro rata / permanent / working two days onsite and three days from home, working pattern to be discussed at interview
At YMCA DownsLink Group, is to help children and young people have a fair chance to be who they want to be. We do this by providing a safe home, building life skills and self-confidence, and supporting emotional wellbeing and mental health.
Our Values - we do what’s right, we work with heart, and we build real connections - guide and shape how we show up for children and young people we support and for each other.
is delivered by Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with YMCA DownsLink Group. We offer a variety of support including counselling and psychological therapies to children and young people within Brighton and Hove.
We are looking for a compassionate and experienced Wellbeing Children & Young People's (CYP) Lead to support and shape our therapeutic services for young people in Brighton and Hove.
Overview of key areas of responsibility:
Leadership
- Provide line management support and supervision to wellbeing workers (e.g. counsellors, practitioners, therapists, link workers and trainees).
- Work alongside a team of leads to support the running, development and management of the service.
- Lead induction, mentoring, and training of new staff, trainees, and volunteers.
- Foster a culture of learning, innovation, and continuous improvement across the team.
Core Clinical
- Carry out individual general counselling assessments of children and young people and make appropriate referrals.
- Provide guidance and oversight for complex or high-risk cases.
- Ensure all interventions are evidence-based, child-centred, and trauma-informed.
- Develop and oversee counselling protocols, therapeutic pathways, and risk assessment frameworks.
Safeguarding and Risk
- Lead and give oversight for safeguarding concerns, embedding a safeguarding-first culture across the service.
- Work to ensure all counsellors, staff, and link workers, are trained, confident, and compliant in safeguarding practice.
- Implement robust risk assessment and management processes.
- Monitor safeguarding incidents, identify themes, and strengthen safeguarding practice.
- Liaise with schools, health, social care, police, and other agencies in safeguarding matters.
Service Development
- Work with the Service Manager, Leads and Clinical Leads to strengthen and expand counselling provision, including group work.
- Triage referrals and represent the service in multi-agency triage meetings.
- Promote and develop opportunities for community participation and youth voice in service design.
- Build strong relationships with schools, health services, local authorities, commissioners, and community partners.
- Represent the service at local and regional forums, influencing CYP wellbeing strategies.
Please download the job profile (below), which includes detailed role description and person specification.
Qualifications, knowledge, and experience
- More than 2 years post-qualified at graduate or post graduate level Counselling Diploma or equivalent [of two years minimum duration including personal counselling or psychotherapy].
- BACP Registration or Accreditation and/or other eligible Professional Accreditation e.g. UKCP/HPC.
- Strong team-management and line-management experience is required, including demonstrated experience in supervising, developing, and supporting staff.
- A good level of understanding in therapeutic or counselling theory and practice and working to short-term models.
- A sound understanding of child developmental processes, Child Protection and Vulnerable Adult Safeguarding issues and procedures, along with proven experience in safeguarding young children.
- Solid experience in delivering counselling and/or therapy and assessment, along with experience with dealing with complex cases.
- Experience of multi-disciplinary team working, with the ability to work within time-limited frameworks.
CLOSING DATE: Tuesday 24 February 2026 at midnight. Proposed interview date Thursday 19 March 2026.
Please note that we are unable to offer a work permit or visa sponsorship for this role; applicants must already have the right to live and work in the UK independently.
An inclusive workplace We are committed to policies and practices of equity, diversity, and inclusion and to supporting our people to make sure our culture is consistent with this commitment.
Accessibility If you require assistance or have questions regarding the application process, please do contact us.
YMCA DLG requires all staff and volunteers to be committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and to respond proactively to safeguarding concerns.
Successful applicants will undergo a thorough background screening process, conducted by an accredited third-party provider. This includes an Enhanced DBS check (with Children’s and Adults’ Barred Lists) as well as comprehensive reference and activity checks.
Registered Charity
101 - 500
Our mission is to help children and young people have a fair chance to be who they want to be.
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!
Title: Group Programme and Events Lead
Reports to: Associate Director of Business and Operations
Based: Remotely – however must travel as and when required to meetings and events.
Working Hours: Monday to Thursday, 9:00am–5:30pm; Friday, 9:00am–5:00pm. (Hours may vary on event days or when event planning calls are scheduled outside of standard working hours)
Job Purpose: To organise the planning and implementation of Programmes & Events and maintain a high level of accuracy and detail throughout.
The role: Arrhythmia Alliance Group is recruiting a Group Programme and Events Lead on a full-time, permanent, remote basis. Your skills will be essential in strengthening the charities profile through programmes and event planning and coordination.
You will support the organisation with its’ programme and events portfolio by developing healthy, professional, relationships at all levels. You will also showcase initiatives taken and their key impact in making a real difference in people's lives.
Main responsibilities:
- Plan, coordinate, attend and execute charity programmes and events.
- Research and oversee all event logistics, including agendas, venue selection, room allocation, contract negotiations, transportation, accommodation and catering arrangements.
- Liaise effectively with various vendors and service providers.
- Develop and manage budgets, providing financial reports and forecasts to senior management.
- Evaluate programme and event success through feedback collection and analysis, making necessary recommendations for improvements.
- Promote the organisation's brand image, values, and initiatives.
- Ensure all events are compliant with relevant standards and other regulations.
- Diary management for all programmes and events.
- Support in production of relevant presentations and be able to present on the Charity group whilst attending events online or in person.
- Work closely with all other departments to ensure all events, projects and campaigns are promoted efficiently to the target audience; includes website development and updates along with researching and sourcing appropriate promotional resources.
- Take payments over the phone as and when required.
- Attend physical meetings and events as and when needed to provide support.
- Support the production of recording for Healthcare Professionals, patients and care givers for educational webinars & events using but not limited to Microsoft Teams or Zoom.
- Attend Calls with Senior managers out of normal working pattern when required
Person specification:
- Experience in planning, organising, and executing marketing of programmes and events
- Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
- Excellent knowledge in Microsoft Suite of tools including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise and manage workload
- Can undertake a wide variety of tasks and multi-task with ease
- Professional, methodical and thorough approach to work with a friendly and polite manner
- Ability to work on own initiative as well as part of a team
- Full Driving Licence with access to a vehicle
- Educated to GCSE level minimum
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Icon, the Institute of Conservation, is looking for an experienced and collaborative Groups and Public Programmes Lead to help us empower our volunteer community and bring the value of heritage conservation to wider audiences.
Thanks to funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, this new role will support Icon’s volunteer-led specialist Groups, helping deliver inspiring events, talks, training and activities that celebrate and share widely the importance of conservation.
You’ll develop and lead Icon’s public engagement programme – creating partnerships with charities, schools and community organisations, coordinating studio visits and workshops, and championing opportunities for conservators to connect with new audiences. You’ll also design and deliver volunteer training, support Group committees, and line‑manage our Groups & Public Programmes Administrator.
We’re looking for someone with experience delivering creative or cultural programmes, supporting volunteers, and managing partnerships. Strong communication, organisational skills and a passion for heritage are essential.
Icon is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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We are seeking a faith-filled Christian leader who is passionate about bringing hope to youth and children, and who will lead on mission and discipleship across West Derby Deanery as part of our Youth and Children’s Hub strategy, which is in its early stages of development.
A Youth and Children’s Hub is a new concept which seeks to create a joined up, supported plan in deaneries to ensure that there is opportunity for children, young people and their families to access discipleship, worship and faith communities in a range of styles, places and times.
This is a very exciting opportunity to support our existing youth and we hope this role will see significant growth in the number of children and young people encountering Jesus, becoming embedded in a discipleship journey in church communities, and going on to explore their vocation, including ministry leadership in some capacity.
Registered Charity
"Growing Christ-centred communities that enable everyone to flourish" We're a group of churches working together in a parish in Liverpool.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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We’re looking for a motivated and collaborative Youth Work Team Lead to join our Children & Young People’s Service in Brighton. This is a key leadership role within a service that is actively strengthening its youth work offer, embedding participation and inclusion, and supporting young people’s emotional wellbeing and mental health through trauma-informed practice.
You’ll combine hands-on youth work delivery with leadership and coordination responsibilities, helping to create safe, welcoming and inspiring spaces where young people aged 10–25 can connect, feel heard and thrive.
We actively welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and identities, particularly those from communities currently underrepresented in our workforce.
You will:
- Deliver high-quality, inclusive youth work, embedding participation and creativity across programmes and activities
- Coordinate and lead youth work sessions at the Young People’s Centre and off-site locations, including nature-based provision
- Act as a senior member of staff on duty, managing safeguarding, risk and safe delivery
- Provide line supervision and day-to-day support to youth workers, sessional staff and volunteers
- Work collaboratively with partners and colleagues to strengthen the Youth Hub offer and young people’s pathways
We’re looking for someone who can demonstrate:
- Strong experience delivering youth work with children and young people
- Confidence acting as a lead worker, including responsibility for safe delivery and decision-making
- A sound understanding of youth work principles, participation and safeguarding
- Experience supervising or supporting staff, sessional workers or volunteers
- Commitment to inclusive, trauma-informed and neurodivergent-affirming practice
A recognised youth work qualification (e.g. JNC-recognised or equivalent) is desirable, alongside a commitment to ongoing professional development.
Why join us?
Impact Initiatives is a Brighton-based charity with a long-standing commitment to supporting children, young people, adults with disabilities and older people across Sussex.
Our Children & Young People’s Service provides safe, inclusive spaces and relationship-based youth work that supports wellbeing, connection and growth. You’ll be joining a values-led organisation with supportive leadership, regular supervision and a strong focus on learning and development.
Closing date: Wednesday 4 March 2026
Interviews: Tuesday 10 March 2026
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974) and the successful applicant will be subject to an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Thank you!
36 hours per week / £36,530 per annum pro rata / permanent / working two days onsite and three days from home, working pattern to be discussed at interview
At YMCA DownsLink Group, is to help children and young people have a fair chance to be who they want to be. We do this by providing a safe home, building life skills and self-confidence, and supporting emotional wellbeing and mental health.
Our Values - we do what’s right, we work with heart, and we build real connections - guide and shape how we show up for children and young people we support and for each other.
is delivered by Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with YMCA DownsLink Group. We offer a variety of support including counselling and psychological therapies to children and young people within Brighton and Hove.
We are looking for a compassionate and experienced Wellbeing Children & Young People's (CYP) Lead to support and shape our therapeutic services for young people in Brighton and Hove.
Overview of key areas of responsibility:
Leadership
- Provide line management support and supervision to wellbeing workers (e.g. counsellors, practitioners, therapists, link workers and trainees).
- Work alongside a team of leads to support the running, development and management of the service.
- Lead induction, mentoring, and training of new staff, trainees, and volunteers.
- Foster a culture of learning, innovation, and continuous improvement across the team.
Core Clinical
- Carry out individual general counselling assessments of children and young people and make appropriate referrals.
- Provide guidance and oversight for complex or high-risk cases.
- Ensure all interventions are evidence-based, child-centred, and trauma-informed.
- Develop and oversee counselling protocols, therapeutic pathways, and risk assessment frameworks.
Safeguarding and Risk
- Lead and give oversight for safeguarding concerns, embedding a safeguarding-first culture across the service.
- Work to ensure all counsellors, staff, and link workers, are trained, confident, and compliant in safeguarding practice.
- Implement robust risk assessment and management processes.
- Monitor safeguarding incidents, identify themes, and strengthen safeguarding practice.
- Liaise with schools, health, social care, police, and other agencies in safeguarding matters.
Service Development
- Work with the Service Manager, Leads and Clinical Leads to strengthen and expand counselling provision, including group work.
- Triage referrals and represent the service in multi-agency triage meetings.
- Promote and develop opportunities for community participation and youth voice in service design.
- Build strong relationships with schools, health services, local authorities, commissioners, and community partners.
- Represent the service at local and regional forums, influencing CYP wellbeing strategies.
Please download the job profile (below), which includes detailed role description and person specification.
Qualifications, knowledge, and experience
- More than 2 years post-qualified at graduate or post graduate level Counselling Diploma or equivalent [of two years minimum duration including personal counselling or psychotherapy].
- BACP Registration or Accreditation and/or other eligible Professional Accreditation e.g. UKCP/HPC.
- Strong team-management and line-management experience is required, including demonstrated experience in supervising, developing, and supporting staff.
- A good level of understanding in therapeutic or counselling theory and practice and working to short-term models.
- A sound understanding of child developmental processes, Child Protection and Vulnerable Adult Safeguarding issues and procedures, along with proven experience in safeguarding young children.
- Solid experience in delivering counselling and/or therapy and assessment, along with experience with dealing with complex cases.
- Experience of multi-disciplinary team working, with the ability to work within time-limited frameworks.
CLOSING DATE: Tuesday 24 February 2026 at midnight. Proposed interview date Thursday 19 March 2026.
Please note that we are unable to offer a work permit or visa sponsorship for this role; applicants must already have the right to live and work in the UK independently.
An inclusive workplace We are committed to policies and practices of equity, diversity, and inclusion and to supporting our people to make sure our culture is consistent with this commitment.
Accessibility If you require assistance or have questions regarding the application process, please do contact us.
YMCA DLG requires all staff and volunteers to be committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and to respond proactively to safeguarding concerns.
Successful applicants will undergo a thorough background screening process, conducted by an accredited third-party provider. This includes an Enhanced DBS check (with Children’s and Adults’ Barred Lists) as well as comprehensive reference and activity checks.
Registered Charity
101 - 500
Our mission is to help children and young people have a fair chance to be who they want to be.